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BY EMMA JACKSON and JULIAN RYALL

DESPITE the still-smarting pains of a slowly fading recession, which wreaked havoc on industries across the board, there is one ink sector that has been steadily growing, with global appeal in almost every country and nearly every demographic.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Commission and the European Parliament have opened talks on uniting their two independent lobbyist registers into one European Union (EU) system. The parliament launched a voluntary register in 1998 and the Commission in 2008, and both sides have agreed to finalise administrative and technical issues surrounding creating a united register.…

BY BILL CORCORAN

LAST year, the former executive chairman of Nigeria’s Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Nuhu Ribadu, summed up why he thought the west African country’s efforts to curb corruption and money laundering has faltered in recent years. "When you fight corruption, it fights back," said Mr Ribadu in June, as he addressed the United States government’s House of Representatives committee on financial services on capital loss and corruption in Nigeria, as well as in Africa.…

BY RAGHAVENDRA VERMA

INDIA’S UB Group has said it should become the world’s largest spirits manufacturer next year. "We are certain that our additional sales in the next financial year (April 2010-March 2011) will take us to the number one position globally", Vijay Mallya, the group’s chairman, has announced.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE NEXT climate change summit, in Cancún, Mexico, from November 29 to December 10 will not yield an international treaty, the outgoing executive secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) has predicted. Yvo de Boer said Cancún could "agree an operational architecture", leaving a need for "many more rounds of climate-change negotiations".…

BY PACIFICA GODDARD

The most important markets for bottled water have traditionally been developed economies like Western Europe and the United States. However, growth in these markets has recently flattened out, exacerbated by the global economic crisis and growing environmental concerns over the product.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE INTERNATIONAL Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) has been pushing for more synchronised RNAV 5 area navigation within the Middle East. A regional meeting in Cairo has agreed there is a "need to harmonise the implementation of RNAV 5 in the MID [Middle East] Region."…

BY PACIFICA GODDARD

Although in most parts of the world consumers cut back on juice and nectar consumption, and growth in this segment has been the slowest in 10 years, juices and fruit-flavoured drinks were one of Latin America’s fastest growing segments in 2009, according to Euromonitor International.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

DYING companies using biotechnology to make or fix their dyes will be able to discover relevant innovation through a new International Industrial Biotechnology Network (IIBN). Coordimnated by the United Nations Industrial Development Organisation (UNIDO), it will link biotechnology researchers and regulators with commercial ventures.…

BY MARK ROWE

CROATIA is certainly talking a good game when it comes to cracking down on fraud as its European Union (EU) membership negotiations continue apace. The promised land of a seat at Brussels was sufficient to help Social Democrat law professor and classical music composer Ivo Josipovi?…