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BY KEITH NUTHALL

A FINANCIAL rescue package for ITER, the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor project was in major jeopardy last night as European Union (EU) politicians failed to agree an EU budget for 2011. The package had included a commitment to find an additional Euro EUR1.4 billion in additional EU funds for the global nuclear fusion project in 2012 and 2013, which is 45% funded by the European Union.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

COUNTRIES negotiating a plurilateral Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) fighting fake products have announced that all remaining problems have been resolved and a final text is being drafted. This will allow the European Union (EU) and its member states, Australia, Canada, Japan, Korea, Mexico, Morocco, New Zealand, Singapore, Switzerland and the USA to ratify the treaty.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

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THE EUROPEAN Commission has approved the takeover by Unilever of Sara Lee’s body and laundry care businesses, on condition it sells off the US company’s Sanex brand and related business in Europe. Following an inquiry as the European Union’s (EU) lead competition authority, Brussels concluded there were particular concerns regarding Unilever’s future dominance of some EU deodorant markets.…

BY DEIRDRE MASON

As governments wake up to the need of establishing an infrastructure of charging points for electric vehicles (EVs), commercial players are offering anything from the expertise to set up the network down to the individual chargers. Some innovations will clearly make life a lot easier for those with the job of making the EV marketable.…

BY WANG FANGQING

Japan’s leading dairy company Megmilk Snow Brand is to strengthen its business overseas. Preliminary plans include investing in new equipment for its plant in Tatura, Victoria, Australia and exporting cheese from Japan to China. "We are facing a low birth rate and aging population in Japan, so it is necessary for us to actively seek opportunities overseas for our future growth," said a Tokyo-based spokesman.…

BY LEE ADENDOORF

NETWORKED clothing that can show you where it is at all times, talking to mirrors and shelves on the shop floor, is no longer the stuff of science fiction, but a reality developing rapidly in stores around the globe.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

NEW competitors for shipping gas to the European Union (EU) from the Caucasus are emerging, while Turkmenistan has announced a major new gas find. The Turkmen government is claiming guaranteed gas supplies to Europe, by quadrupling exports over the next 20 years, after unveiling a major new gas field.…

BY RAGHAVENDRA VERMA

A NEW USD25 million steel processing centre, under the name of JSW MI Steel Service Center Pvt Ltd, is to be developed in north India as a result of a 50:50 joint venture (JV) between India’s JSW Steel and Japan’s Marubeni Itochu Steel (MISI).…

BY MJ DESCHAMPS

DESPITE split opinions within the European Union (EU), long-debated legislative proposals to introduce compulsory origin labelling in all EU member states are at last starting to look like becoming law.

All clothing, shoes and textile products imported into the European Union (EU) would have to carry origin labels under a harmonised EU-system under the proposal.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

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A UNITED Nations campaign could – if successful – significantly increase worldwide demand for soap. Its Global Handwashing Day has highlighted how diarrhoeal and acute respiratory diseases kill 3.5 million children aged under five annually, and that washing their hands after using toilets and before handling food can reduce such deaths by 40% and 23% respectively.…