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By Alan Osborn

The Paris-based educational consulting company Eduniversal, part of the SMBG group, has published a list of 1,000 top business schools ranking them by their "capacity for international influence" and grouped into nine geographic regions. SMBG, which specialises in reference services and publications for educational and higher educational institutions, claims that the Eduniversal initiative is "the first stone of a global federation of education."…

BY RAGHAVENDRA VERMA, in New Delhi; SAEED AKHTAR BALOCH, in Lahore; and KEITH NOYAHR, in Colombo

THE SOUTH Asian knitwear industry is experienced mixed fortunes at present, with the impact of China’s production boom and the global liberalisation of the textile sector still changing sub-continental fortunes.…

BY PAUL COCHRANE, in Addis Ababa

ETHIOPIA is trying to position itself as a sourcing destination for the textile and apparel industry, but government projections of a US$500 million-a-year turnover (IS THAT RIGHT – SURELY IT CANNOT BE EXPORTS?) sector by 2008/2009 are lagging way behind, with exports of just US$12.6 million in 2007.…

By Keith Nuthall

A UNITED Nations-sponsored global initiative to encourage business schools to teach and promote social and environmentally responsible commercial practices has gathered a critical mass of support. More than 100 business schools worldwide have now signed up to the Principles for Responsible Management Initiative.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE NEWEST members of the European Union (EU) – Bulgaria and Romania – have been roundly attacked in Brussels over failures to combat organised crime and corruption. Their inaction could cost them dear. Keith Nuthall reports.

BEING criticised by the European Commission could easily be compared to being slapped with a wet fish: unpleasant, but nothing to lose sleep about.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

WORKING groups for the new European Nuclear Energy Forum have started investigating the opportunities and risks facing Europe’s nuclear power sector, while examining how it can improve its transparency.

Following up an inaugural conference held in Bratislava last November 2007, three groups of high level nuclear experts have staged meetings and circulated papers.…

BY JULIAN RYALL, in Tokyo

BY any standards, it has been a tough couple of years for the Japanese nuclear energy industry. Still stinging from public, political and media criticism of atomic energy operators’ practices – including the way in which companies consistently failed to report data that might have been damaging to their operations – the industry was then dealt a blow by Mother Nature.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE UNITED Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) should not assume that future technological innovations slashing carbon dioxide emissions will emerge spontaneously, senior north American scientists have argued. Researchers form the USA’s National Center for Atmospheric Research; the University of Colorado; and Montreal, Canada’s McGill University say the panel has "seriously underestimated" the work required to develop such technology.…

BY MARK ROWE

MALAYSIA’S paint and construction industries are going through a stabilisation phase, according to the government’s Department for Statistics. Figures released by the department show that the paint industry grew by 3% in both 2006 and 2007, and is projected to grow by around 5% each year from now until 2011.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

A WORLD Trade Organisation (WTO) challenge to new Canadian cheese production rules is likely, with the European Union, the United States and New Zealand expressing dismay at a WTO agriculture committee. New Zealand representatives claimed incoming limits on dairy proteins within cheese sold in Canada would illegally "restrict demand for dairy products"

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