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BY KEITH NUTHALL

REGULATING an industry as dynamic and fast-changing as the electronic communications sector is always tough, especially when attempting to create rules through an international organisation as slow as the European Union (EU). But that is the tough task that the EU’s digital agenda Commissioner NeelieKroes has set herself, with detailed plans being released throughout 2010, notably in her ‘Digital Agenda for Europe’ communication (policy paper).…

BY OSAMA DIAB

THE EGYPTIAN Refining Company (ERC) signed a deal in August to build a US dollar USD3.7 billion second-stage greenfield refinery adjacent to the existing Mostorod refinery 40 kilometres northeast of Cairo. The purpose of the new hydro-cracking and coking refinery is to take its needs of fuel oil from the nearby Mostorod refinery owned by the Cairo Oil Refinery Company, the biggest oil refining company in Egypt contributing 20% to Egypt’s oil refining capacity, and transform it into lighter fuel such as ultra-low sulphur diesel.…

BY RAGHAVENDRA VERMA

THE GOVERNMENT of Goa has made it compulsory for all mining companies to install Radio Frequency Identification Devices on the around 20,000 lorries ferrying iron ore around the Indian state to tally its production and exports. The proposal also includes connecting mining site and weighing bridges to the new mechanism for checking overloading of vehicles.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE PERSONAL care product sector should benefit from a new Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA), now largely negotiated. A draft text has been released by the United States, Australia, Canada, the European Union, Japan, Mexico, Morocco, New Zealand, Singapore, South Korea, and Switzerland.…

BY JOHN PAGNI

THE NORD Stream natural gas pipeline, linking Russia with Germany, is not just making political waves, but inspiring technological innovations. Its developers appear to be taking environmental issues seriously. This could appease the project’s doubters.

When completed by the end of 2012, two parallel pipelines will stretch 1,224 kilometres from Vyborg in Russia to Greifswald on Germany’s Baltic coast, linking with EU networks, notably those run by DONG Energy (Denmark), Germany’s E.ON…

BY MARK GODFREY

THE CEO of a Canadian mining company in litigation with the Mongolian authorities over the alleged expropriation of uranium rights has told World Nuclear News: "Uranium exploration and development in Mongolia is going nowhere at the moment." CEO of Toronto-based Khan Resources Grant Edey argued Mongolia’s Nuclear Energy Law, passed in 2009, is a "disincentive to invest and our experience has raised the question of tenure of assets with all other players."…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

RETAIL – WINNERS AND LOSERS

WINNERS

H&M

The Sweden-based brand expanded across the world this year, planning to open 220 new stores, mostly in western Europe and the US. Hennes & Mauritz’ (H&M) third quarter sales of SEK26.89bn (US$4bn) showed a sharp 14% increase on the previous quarter.…

BY ROBERT STOKES

A SURGE in e-book reading in Spain coincides with exhibition space being devoted to digital publishing for the first time ever at LIBER, the International Book Fair for the Spanish speaking world, from Wednesday to Friday this week in Madrid.…

BY WANG FANGQING

CHINA’S perpetually rising costs and currency have, of late, been undermining China’s export industry. However, this has encouraged Chinese clothing retail entrepreneurs to appeal to their domestic market, notably its demographic of Internet-savvy, younger generation consumers. And of course, a key benefit of serving domestic consumers is the ability to create brands and control the whole industrial process, from sourcing materials, to design, manufacture and marketing.…

BY KARRYN MILLER

THE THAI Garment Manufacturer Association’s secretary general has told just-style that the flooding in and around Thailand’s capital Bangkok has hit at least four large clothing factories, while the country waits to see if protective walls surrounding the city hold.…