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CANADIAN meat industry officials and politicians have redoubled their calls for the US to liberalise its country of origin labelling (COOL) rules for meat and livestock, now the World Trade Organisation (WTO) has delivered a final negative ruling on the American system.…

In the dozen or so days after a devastating earthquake killed more than 8,000 across Nepal on April 25, many major international search and rescue teams came and left, but they have been followed by a second wave of emergency response nurses belonging to smaller non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and even nurses volunteering alone.…

THE GLOBAL paint and coatings sector is looking closely at sub-Saharan Africa as an emerging market, which attracted USD56.3 billion in foreign direct investment (FDI) in 2014. And as the region’s richest and most diversified economy, the United Nations Conference on Trade & Development (UNCTAD) has noted, South Africa was Africa’s leading FDI recipient in 2013, with a figure that had more than doubled year-on-year to top USD10 billion.…

The European Commission has launched a review of whether subsidies promoting electricity generating and distributing capacity breaks European Union (EU) state aid rules. These are designed to make sure member states do not give their industries an unfair advantage in the EU’s single market.…

Good sourcing practice at the Indonesian mill of India-based viscose fibre giant Aditya Birla has paved the way to the company’s commitment this month to a global policy to eliminate sourcing materials from ancient and endangered forests, according to the international environmental group that helped develop the policy.…

Indian buffalo meat exports have risen by 10% to USD4.78 billion in the financial year ending March 2015, according to provisional data released by India’s Directorate General of Commercial Intelligence and Statistics on Friday (May 8).
The results backed the findings of an April report by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), entitled ‘Livestock and Poultry: World Markets and Trade’, which concluded: “Larger [beef and veal] shipments from India … [have] more than offset declines by Brazil, Uruguay, and the United States.”…

American pharmaceutical industry officials and trade groups remain cautiously optimistic that intellectual property (IP) negotiations with India can be resolved to the benefit of both nations’ medicine sectors. For now, however, India remains on a so-called ‘priority watch list’ of nations the US is urging to address key IP protection concerns.…

The lack of coordinated control of unmanned aircraft (drones) gathering information and data following a disaster such as the recent Nepal earthquake has been highlighted at the bi-annual European Civil Protection Forum, in Brussels. A debate staged on April 6 on the subject was told by Michel Feider, director of Luxembourg’s Search and Rescue Agency (CHECK), that there had been poor co-ordination between the groups using drones responding to the earthquake disaster Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) were trying to map the resulting physical damage and monitor population movements and camps, as they had done following the Hurricane Sandy incident in Haiti five years ago.…

The Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) and its Japanese partner Nomura may have to pay millions of dollars in damages after a United States judge condemned the two for false statements in selling mortgage-backed securities to mortgage providers Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac before the 2008 financial crisis.…

IF a global poll was made on which countries are the world’s worst offenders for online piracy, Australia would probably be far from the top of the list. But the international media sector is worried about the amount of online piracy being undertaken in Australia and is taking action.…