This area may come naturally to a woman who just spent four years as ministerofeconomicaffairs, finances and industry in France, a nation whose government actively tends to such things.
"I want to gather information... over the bulk buying and trade in the Netherlands in order to inform Chinese authorities that they are getting batches of milk powder that do not conform to their regulations, " Deputy EconomicAffairsMinister Sharon Dijksma said in a statement.
It appears that Apple is about to expand its manufacturing operations to Brazil, where a new Foxconn factory is already in place and ready to churn out iPads, according to a report from national media outlet UOL. Aolizio Mercadante, the country's ministerof science and technology, confirmed the news this week during a hearing held by the Commission ofEconomicAffairs.