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BY ALAN OSBORN

FEW things say more about the growing enthusiasm for nuclear power than the rush of young students eager to make a career in the industry. It is happening mainly in America but other countries are now beginning to see the same development.…

BY WILLIAM BARNES

A WOMAN brushes past palm fronds into the pastel lights of a busy Bangkok salon. At the counter she turns what looks to be a flawless, ivory face towards a woman in a vaguely medical uniform: "Aiyee! I am getting so old.…

By Gavin Blair

Though the number of academic specialists in commercial crime in the Asia-Pacific region may be fewer than in the US or Europe, many of the leading figures are both willing to work with corporate clients and have a great deal of experience outside the ivory towers.…

BY JULIAN RYALL, JAMES BURNS, RAGHAVENDRA VERMA and PHILIPPA JONES

"IT is better to be beautiful than to be good," wrote Oscar Wilde in ‘The Picture of Dorian Gray’. Many cosmetics and personal care companies worldwide may still believe this statement to be true, but being, or at least claiming to be, "good" has become an essential part of the sector’s public image.…

BY JULIAN RYALL

JAPAN Tobacco, the third-largest tobacco company in the world, is opposed to a proposal from a cross-party group of politicians in the company’s home country to more than double the price of a pack of cigarettes.

Yoko Komiyama, a member of the opposition Democratic Party of Japan, which effectively controls the upper house of the country’s parliament said the group will call for the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) government to raise the price of a pack of 20 cigarettes from around Yen 300 (US$2.74) at present to between Yen 600 and Yen 1,000.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE G8 group of major economic powers has collectively promised to increase their contributions to help clean up the Chernobyl nuclear complex by Euro 62 million. The money from Britain, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Russia, the USA and the European Union will help complete a storage facility for more than 20,000 spent fuel assemblies generated during the operation of Chernobyl units 1-3

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BY KARRYN MILLER

JAPAN Tobacco Inc has launched a new cigarette line: testing Camel Nutty Lights in the country’s southern Fukuoka prefecture this July. The launch follows on from the success of Camel Menthol – released in Miyagi prefecture north of Tokyo in October 2006 and across Japan in March 2007.…

BY KARRYN MILLER

FRITS Vranken, senior vice president for business development at Japan Tobacco International (JTI), has recently seen his role expanded since his 2006 appointment at JTI’s headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland. Mr Vranken’s role changed at the start of 2008 to include corporate strategy, tobacco taxation and internal communications.…

BY PAUL COCHRANE, ALAN OSBORN and GAVIN BLAIR

EARTHQUAKES spell potential disasters for mining companies. Not only do they pose obvious safety risks, but the danger that a serious earth tremor could destroy or weaken environmental protection measures put in place at mine sites are significant.…

By Eric Lyman in Rome

There are problems in the world that cannot be confronted with any success by a single state, no matter how powerful. Big environmental issues and world hunger and poverty immediately come to mind, along with many regional peacekeeping needs and most economic and trade-related problems.

Enter multilateralism, the consensus-driven process that democratically pulls countries together for collective problem solving, usually under the auspices of an umbrella organisation such as the United Nations or the World Trade Organisation.

Multilateralism has been hailed as the natural evolution from the bipolar world order that marked the period after World War II – with influence split between the camps of US and the Soviet Union – and the unipolar order based on the power and influence of the US since the end of the Cold War.…