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BY MONICA DOBIE
NORTH Americans are abandoning the traditional enclosed malls and are instead flocking to open-air ‘lifestyle centres’ or main street shopping, according to a retail expert.

At a recent conference for the International Council of Shopping Centres (ICSC), in Calgary, Canada, Ian Thomas chairperson of Vancouver-based Thomas Consultants Inc said: “Consumers are no longer infatuated with the mall.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
CHARGES have been laid against alleged fraudsters in an Italy-based cigarette smuggling scam costing European treasuries Euro 31.6 million in duty. The public prosecutor of Asti, Italy, released details of the alleged con, involving 287,884 kg of cigarettes being smuggled with forged customs stamps being presented to Italian customs officials.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission is to examine whether a specialist European institute for research into international and national civil law should be established. It is to fund a study investigating the idea, along with the possibility of creating a European network of legal researchers and university departments.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
PHILIP Morris and the European Commission have buried the hatchet with an out-of-court settlement that ends their long-running contraband dispute. Announcing a 12-year agreement to cooperate fighting cigarette counterfeiting, the Commission claimed the deal could also see Philip Morris International making “substantial payments” maybe totalling US$1.25 billion.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
SCIENTISTS are studying European Space Agency (ESA) satellite data proving that huge waves of 25 metres height or more are an ever-present hazard to shipping on the high seas. Researchers in the international MaxWave project are examining images culled over three weeks of more than 10 such monster waves.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
NECESSARY research that will allow France to maintain its nuclear power capacity should be carried out with Europe’s new liberalised electricity market in mind, the International Energy Authority has warned. In an assessment of French energy policy, it noted France’s “substantial government R&D in this field and the marketing and construction of French nuclear plants abroad…will help in keeping the nuclear option open.”…

KEITH NUTHALL
A NEW outbreak of infectious salmon anaemia has been reported in Maine, the USA, by the Office International des Épizooties (OIE), the world animal health organisation. It says that 4,000 fish have been slaughtered because of the disease, at a farm in Cobscook Bay, Deep Cove; 7,000 fish were susceptible, it added.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
THE WORLD Health Organisation (WHO) is expecting its Framework Convention on Tobacco Control to become operational by the New Year, with 167 countries having signed its text (nearly 90% of negotiating governments) and 23 countries ratifying. It will become international law once 40 ratifications have been deposited with the WHO.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
‘CATCH me if you can’ might well be the motto of international money launderers. Despite laws criminalising the practice being well established, international organisations are continuing to extend their legal and geographical scope. Keith Nuthall reports.

IF a continent has need of comprehensive cross-border anti-money laundering legislation, it surely has to be Europe.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE INTERNATIONAL Organisation for Standardisation (ISO) has released a technical standard advising on detecting illicit movements of radioactive materials at frontiers and industry control points. ISO said it wanted to provide a common technical base for monitoring, helping communication between regulatory authorities.…