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BY JULIAN RYALL

FOURTEEN years and five months after it was shut down in the wake of an accident, Japan’s Monju fast-breeder reactor resumed operations today (Thursday May 6).

After receiving final confirmation from the local and national governments that the controversial plant could be restarted, control rods were removed from the reactor, a process that was completed at 10.36 am Japan time, according to the Japan Atomic Energy Agency (JAEA).…

BY EMMA JACKSON and JULIAN RYALL

DESPITE the still-smarting pains of a slowly fading recession, which wreaked havoc on industries across the board, there is one ink sector that has been steadily growing, with global appeal in almost every country and nearly every demographic.…

BY DEIRDRE MASON

After the disappointment of the Copenhagen climate summit in December 2009, global warming campaigners have hoped UN climate change talks at Cancun, Mexico in December will thrash out a viable successor to the Kyoto agreement, which ends in 2012.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

EUROPEAN Union (EU) ministers have been asked to restore for five years – albeit at a lower level of 19% – anti-dumping duties on silicon exported to the EU from China and South Korea because of concerns removing the tariffs would allow unfair undercutting of EU producers.…

BY DANIEL PRUZIN

REPRESENTATIVES from around 160 countries are moving toward clinching a deal on new World Health Organisation (WHO) Protocol on Illicit Trade in Tobacco Products, which could be wrapped up within the next 12 months. Unlike its predecessor, the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (under whose authority this latest agreement is being negotiated), the protocol is something of a mixed blessing for the tobacco industry.…

BY PAUL COCHRANE, AHMAD PATHONI, GAVIN BLAIR, RAGHAVENDRA VERMA, WANG FANGQING, HELEN FLUSFELDER, KARRYN MILLER, KEITH NUTHALL and ALAN OSBORN

THE BRITISH writer Oscar Wilde wrote: "A cigarette is the perfect type of a perfect pleasure. It is exquisite, and it leaves one unsatisfied.…

BY GAVIN BLAIR

AWARE that Japan’s attitudes towards smoking have been more relaxed than in most of the rest of the industrialised world, the Japanese have long referred to their own country as ‘tabako tengoku’ – which literally translates as smokers’ heaven.…

BY ANDREW CAVE

ALISON Cooper’s accession to chief executive of Britain’s Imperial Tobacco last month (May) put the UK tobacco industry in an unfamiliar position as the 43-year-old mother-of-two became just the fifth female chief executive in the flagship FTSE100 index.…

BY RAGHAVENDRA VERMA

India’s drinks industry was not harmed badly by the recession, with domestic sales soft drinks and juice production all growing steadily throughout 2009, according to a recent Euromonitor report. In the soft drinks sector, Coca-Cola was the clear leader with Pepsi close behind, but several Indian companies such as Parle Agro, Parle Bisleri Ltd and Dabur India Ltd proffered some healthy competition.…

BY GAVIN BLAIR

AJINOMOTO Frozen Foods USA, a fully-owned subsidiary of Japan food manufacturer Ajinomoto, is ramping up its US operations, including investing Japanese Yen JPY1.2 billion (US dollar USD12.88 million) to add a production line at its Oregon plant. Due to become operational in November, the line will boost capacity for frozen-meals by 125% to 18,000 tons a year to meet growing demand for rice-based dishes, to be sold at Wal-Mart-affiliated outlets.…