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BY DEIRDRE MASON

NEARLY a third of all confectionary sold in China are counterfeit or copycats of global brands, a new European Commission survey says.

The intellectual property enforcement survey for 2006, based on questionnaires about infringements and the attitudes of the authorities in the countries concerned, put China at the top of the tree for sweet fraud.…

BY DINAH GARDNER, in Beijing

CHINA is talking tough over the launch of a World Trade Organisation (WTO) case over its levying of tariffs on imported auto parts, and analysts expect Beijing to follow this up at the WTO before even considering compromise.…

BY ALAN OSBORN

Scientists from the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research in Germany have found that doubling the concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere could lead to global warming of between 1.2 and 4.3°C, with the most likely value being around 3°C.…

BY DEIRDRE MASON

WITH a further GB Pounds 21 million of UK government money announced last month to help complete the Galileo civil satellite navigation system, tech providers are on its way to offering far more advanced and precise navigation and location technology by the end of the decade.…

BY KEITH NOYAHR, in Colombo

THE RESUMPTION of war in Sri Lanka is bad news. Period. But, ironically, there have been some benefits. One of these is a concentrating of the mind amongst law enforcement officials within Sri Lanka and their counterparts abroad into tracking down and stopping both terrorist financing and money laundering.…

BY ALAN OSBORN

AS befits its wider membership and longer history, Interpol is better known internationally than Europol though it has fewer staff and a smaller budget. But the similarities between the two organisations are more important than the differences. Neither is a hands-on police force.…

BY ALAN OSBORN

The International Seabed Authority (ISA) has made limited progress towards agreeing new regulations laying down how mining companies could explore and exploit deep seawaters for valuable deposits such as polymetallic sulphide nodules and cobalt-rich crusts. These mineral resources are rich in copper, iron, zinc, silver, gold and cobalt, with the sulphides being found around volcanic areas and the crusts on oceanic ridges.…

BY LIZ HALL

SIX years ago, government representatives from nine South American countries gathered in Cartagena de Indias, Colombia, to sign a document of great importance to those concerned with fighting money-laundering (ML) and terrorism financing (TF).

On December 8, 2000, representatives of the governments of the following countries: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Paraguay, Peru and Uruguay, signed the Founding Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) formally establishing GAFISUD, a regional body modelled on the Financial Action Task Force (FATF).…

BY ALAN OSBORN

By many measures, the Dutch are the world leaders in paint and coatings which is not quite the same as saying they’re the largest suppliers or that Dutch paints are the best known though they do come at or near the top in both categories.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE INTERNATIONAL Finance Corporation (IFC) of the World Bank is pumping US$50 million into a Chinese plant converting coal into dimethyl ether (DME), a liquid fuel significantly cleaner than its hard fuel source. It is investing US$10 million into China’s Xinao Group, while lending it US$40 million, to set up petrochemical plants using cheap coal from Inner Mongolia.…