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much of the rest of the Middle East, with political and economic instability causing a slowdown in construction and new projects on hold, Saudi Arabia’s paint sector is expanding fast and attracting international players to this currently stable growing market. A key reason has been a USD131 billion government stimulus package launched in 2012, which is fuelling construction.…

A fire at a slaughterhouse near the northeastern Chinese city of Changchun has so far claimed the lives of 119 people and left a further 60 hospitalized, state media reported Monday night – the victim’s families are demanding answers about the fire’s cause.…

Poland confirmed plans in 2012 to build a liquefied natural gas (LNG) plant with a view to importing supplies from Qatar, it seemed like the latest example of eastern European energy ministries trying to avoid energy dependence on Russia. Plans to develop shale gas in Poland and the Baltic States fall into the same category, along with policies to build energy infrastructure linking Poland and its Nordic and Baltic neighbours.…

EUROPEAN Union (EU) heads of states and governments have urged their ministers to agree important pieces of draft EU legislation that could potentially curb tax evasion in the bloc.

Meeting during a European Council meeting in Brussels last week (May 22), leaders were under pressure to act from media reports revealing how much untaxed incomes politicians, companies and rich business owners have stashed in tax havens.…

the wall for multinationals using current international tax laws to reduce their fiscal exposure. Speaking at the eighth meeting of the OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation & Development) Forum on Tax Administration, hosted by Russia’s federal tax service from May 16-17, experts noted that public anger was building over cases such as the low level of taxes paid by Google, Amazon and UK energy company NPower.…

THE INDIAN government is to create a national Veterinary Emergency Response Unit, charged with protecting the country’s huge livestock population during natural disasters, such as floods, fires, droughts and earthquakes, a New Delhi conference has heard. “We are going to train the students of Indian veterinary colleges in disaster management techniques so that they can rush to save livestock whenever a disaster strikes,” S Abdul Rahman, President of the Commonwealth Veterinary Association, told globalmeatnews.com. …

THERE are many pathways to developing helpful support services for telcos in today’s increasingly complex communications world, but one particularly reliable guide has to be boosting customer experience. Some companies start with the technology and work out to the customer, but others start with the customer in mind and develop effective technologies that suit a comprehensive vision of maximising their happiness and generating revenues.…

MAJOR companies within the European Union (EU) suffering from major cybercrime attacks will have to inform regulators under a proposed EU directive on network and information security. If the legislation is approved by the European Parliament and the EU Council of Ministers, it would assign that duty to operators of critical infrastructure in the financial, transport, energy and health sectors; IT services, such as app stores, e-commerce platforms, internet payment systems, cloud computing companies, search engines and social network; plus public administrations.…

A EUROPEAN Union (EU)-backed research project has developed new ways of applying patterns within deposited layers of nanoparticles that can be adjusted to create special properties such as super-waterproofing. Hungarian and Finnish researchers working for the CompNanoALD have developed atomic layer deposition (ALD) techniques, which can “deposit one atomic layer of a material at a time in a step-wise manner”, said Dr Imre Miklós Szilágyi, of Budapest University of Technology and Economics, in a European Commission note.…

THE UK government has reported to European Union (EU) consumer protection network Rapex that its consumer protection authorities have seized and destroyed potentially dangerous henna-based personal care products. In two cases these were hair dyes imported from India under the Moon Star brand’s Herbal Henna line – their copper brown and burgundy products.…