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It may be one of the busiest cities on the planet, with tens of millions of people criss-crossing its roads, pavements and subway lines every day of the week, but Tokyo benefits from one of the most advanced road traffic monitoring and management systems in the world.…

CHINA’S tobacco growers are set for a bumper crop of subsidies this year (2013), which will see state payments to leaf growers pass Chinese Yuan Renminbi CNY15 billion (USD2.44 billion) for the first time, up from CNY14.7 billion (USD2.39 billion) paid out in 2012.…

INDONESIA’S paints and coatings industry is introducing a growing range of new products and innovations as the market becomes increasingly competitive, as recent robust growth continues into the foreseeable future.

A 2012 report by UK-based market researchers Euromonitor International, said the total turnover of the Indonesian paints and varnishes sector was forecast to grow by 10% in 2012 to Indonesian Rupiah IDR15.3 trillion (USD1.53 billion), up from IDR6.4 trillion (USD640 million) in 2005, with a combined annual growth rate of 8.4% between 2005 and 2012.…

Making money in the mobile communications sector is always about the art of the possible, but ambitious companies will always seek to tap the most revenue streams. The question, as ever, is how to achieve such goals, without being weighed down with additional layers of management that eat into those vital profit margins.…

THE INDONESIAN Textile Association (API – or Asosiasi Pertekstilan Indonesia) has told WTiN that the Indonesian government is considering revamping its policy programme designed to boost investment in the sector. He added that the industry is also looking to improve its own competitiveness by focusing increasingly on higher value products.…

The European Union (EU) has announced it will start disputes proceedings with China at the World Trade Organisation (WTO), where it will seek to challenge Chinese anti-dumping duties imposed on EU-made imports of high-performance stainless steel seamless tubes.

Brussels will join the Japan government, which has already launched a WTO dispute with China over anti-dumping duties levied on the same steel products made in Japan.…

THE CHANGES made in 2012 by the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) to global anti-money laundering and terror finance guidance might have been agreed by consensus, but governments are responding in a wide variety of ways. Some jurisdictions considered to be leaders in anti-money laundering (AML) and combating the financing of terrorism (CFT) practice are taking time to respond, while others have taken advantage of the new recommendations to revamp their AML laws and regulations.…

A PUSH by the G8 group of the world’s seven most industrialised nations plus Russia to improve extractive industry transparency and openness can help industrial minerals companies manage the payments they make in developing counties, as they will only have to follow one set of rules, according to Rio Tinto chief executive Sam Walsh.…

THE EUROPEAN Commission has released a detailed progress report on its promotion of raw material supplies in Europe. It said Brussels will release an implementation plan for its 2012 raw materials initiative by December, boosting the availability of key industrial minerals, including rare earths, in the European Union (EU).  …

The concept of closed loop supply chains sounds a laudable, if possibly Utopian ideal: a virtuous circle of production from cradle to grave and back to cradle again. However, as Ulf Eriksson, product manager for textiles and shoes at the Sweden-government-owned Ecolabelling Sweden (or Svanen – Swedish for swan), pointed out: “A closed loop is a challenge for the garment industry because this is a fashion business.…