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KANSAI INTERNATIONAL STILL STRUGGLES TO ACHIEVE ITS TRAFFIC GOALS



BY GAVIN BLAIR

ONE of 10 recipients of the ‘Monument of the Millennium’ awards by the American Society of Civil Engineers, Kansai International Airport (KIX) has also been referred to as, ‘one of the world’s most attractive white elephants’. An undeniable triumph of human ingenuity, the sheer scale and ambitiousness of its construction, combined with ineffective central planning, continue to provide its greatest challenges.…

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SENIOR INDIAN TEXTILE EXECUTIVE CALLS FOR TARGETED SUPPORT FOR INDIAN TEXTILE AND CLOTHING SECTOR



BY RAGHAVENDRA VERMA

THE INDIAN textile and clothing industry is striving to make its own at least 10% of China’s annual garment export hail of US$115 billion: "This is not difficult to achieve because of cost factor and various other reasons", said Darshan Lal Sharma, managing director of Vardhman Yarns & Threads and a member of the Confederation of Indian Industry’s (CII) national committee on textiles.…

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TRI-BORDER ZONE FUELS ILLICIT TOBACCO TRADE



BY PACIFICA GODDARD and KEITH NUTHALL

THE TRI-BORDER area between Brazil, Argentina and Paraguay in South America is a notorious breeding ground for illicit activity, and the tobacco industry suffers more than most. Contraband goods of every description pass through Paraguay’s trading hub, Ciudad del Este – CD’s and DVD’s, fake designer clothing, sunglasses and watches, sports shoes, games and electronics, and of course one of the world’s most smuggled and lucrative legal substances: cigarettes.…

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EUROPE: EU must ensure "more and better use of R&D"



By Alan Osborn

The failure of business to invest significantly in innovation projects remains the major weakness in the European Union’s (EU) research picture, says the European Commission. While there is "substantial progress" in some aspects of the EU’s innovation performance, investments by business in R&D and IT projects "are still relatively weak, especially if compared to the US and Japan," claims Brussels.…

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ANTI-AGEING PRODUCTS GROWING STRONGLY IN CHINA'S IMAGE CONSCIOUS MARKET



BY DOMINIQUE PATTON

THE ANTI-AGEING products business is among the most dynamic in China’s skincare market sub-sectors, with growth fuelled by increasingly well-off consumers anxious about their image.

This segment, when combined with specialist skin nourishing products was worth around US$868.8 million in 2007 according to research firm Euromonitor.…

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NEW INTERNATIONAL MOUNT FUJI SHIZUOKA AIRPORT OPENS THIS JUNE



BY KARRYN MILLER

JAPAN’S 98th airport, Mt Fuji Shizuoka Airport, is set to open on June 4, 2009: despite the launch being delayed twice. The initial March opening was moved back because the owner of 150 nearby trees refused to chop them down or even shorten them.…

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JAPAN COSMETICS PRODUCERS MOVE SLOWLY TOWARDS BIO-BASED OILS AND FATS, ESPECIALLY IN HIGH END PRODUCTS



BY KARRYN MILLER

AS Japanese consumers seek out innovative cosmetics, homegrown beauty brands must continuously come up with novel products to keep their place within the industry and the use of bio-based oils and fats in formulations is an important part of that process.…

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THE BEST STYLE MODEL? INTEGRATED TEXTILE AND CLOTHING COMPANIES, OR NETWORKS OF INDEPENDENT SUPPLIERS?



BY PHILIPPA JONES, DOMINIQUE PATTON and LUCY JONES

The growth in outsourcing within the clothing and textile sector worldwide has highlighted a key issue, and that is the relative merits of running an integrated company that handles basic production and design, or relying on a string of specialist suppliers to deliver the goods, from fibre supplies, to textile manufacture, design, clothing assembly and retail.…

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TURKEY TOBACCO SECTOR IS MONEY PIT, DESPITE GROWING HEALTH AND MARKETING CONTROLS



BY PAUL COCHRANE

TURKEY’S tobacco market, the eighth largest in the world and valued this month at GBPounds 6 billion in consumer price turnover by British American Tobacco (BAT) has contracted by 5% over the past year following the imposition of a nationwide smoking ban.…

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WHERE IS THE BEST CUTTING EDGE RESEARCH FOR THE TEXTILE AND CLOTHING SECTOR?



BY LEE ADENDORFF, in Lucca, Italy; PHILIPPA JONES, in Paris; DOMINIQUE PATTON, in Beijing; KARRYN CARTELLE, in Tokyo; and LUCY JONES, in Dallas

Where is the best cutting edge research for the textile and clothing industry? Which are the best design schools, the best fabric developers and the best industrial innovators in the sector?…

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