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PALL MALL
BY MARK ROWE
ANOTHER leader in the ASU30 and lights segments, the American blended Pall Mall remains BAT’s leading global mid-price brand, sold in 60 countries. Launched in 1900, it today sells particularly well in eastern and central Europe as well as Italy and last year saw volumes up by 21 per cent.…
MALAYSIA REWRITE
BY MARK ROWE
THE MALAYSIAN government is launching a new and powerful autonomous civil aviation authority, which is being set-up to help kick-start its plans to transform the new Kuala Lumpur International Airport into a regional hub to rival Singapore. The new agency will have a remit to establish a liberal aviation policy and negotiate air service agreements with international airlines.…
AIR SECURITY
Keith Nuthall
AIRPORTS Council International (ACI) Europe has accused European Union Member States of dragging their feet over the implementation of the EU’s airport security plan, involving the implementation of recommendations outlined in ECAC (European Civil Aviation Conference) Document 30. ACI Europe Director General Philippe Hamon called on governments to release money to pay for the reforms.…
TANKER HIJACK
BY MONICA DOBIE
A HIJACKED tanker ship was recently retrieved for its rightful owners in a joint effort by the International Maritime Bureau and Thai marine police. The “Han Wei” disappeared two days after leaving Singapore in March containing 1,950 metric tonnes of gas oil bound for Yangon, (Rangoon), Myanmar.…
LEAF DIRECTOR
BY ALAN OSBORN
CIGARETTES have changed a great deal in recent years though not all smokers may realise by just how much. Once it was commonplace to roll your own, using local tobaccos. Today the market is dominated by filters and international brands, many of them ranking among the world’s best-known consumer products.…
FAIRNESS DIRECTIVE
KEITH NUTHALL
EUROPE’S retail businesses and associations have been asked to comment on detailed plans released by the European Commission for a broad ‘framework’ directive on fair trading; the legislation may for instance, ban “business from engaging in commercial practices that are misleading or likely to mislead the consumer.”…
GERMAN BRANDY
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has called on Germany to reform its spirits monopoly law regarding the production of grain brandy, Kornbranntwein. It wants to prevent small agricultural producers being unfairly favoured with state production subsidies denied to producers from other Member States, and, from 2006, to larger German commercial producers.…
WHO GONG
BY KEITH NUTHALL
WORLD Health Organisation boss Dr Gro Harlem Brundtland has presented international football federation FIFA with her Director General’s Award for opposing tobacco use, following the banning of smoking and cigarette advertising at this year’s World Cup. Previous recipients of the award have included the King of Thailand and the current Foreign Minister of South Africa.…
GEORGIA HUNT
BY KEITH NUTHALL
AN INTERNATIONAL Atomic Energy Agency assembled team has been searching for two abandoned Strontium 90 generators in western Georgia, the Caucasus. They are highly radioactive and had been used by the former USSR military as thermo-electric generators for communication stations.…
OIL TANKERS
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE INTERNATIONAL Maritime Organisation is considering changes to global oil tanker standards, which would insist that each space within the cargo area has permanent access to enable overall and close-up inspections and thickness measurements of ship structures. The reform has been framed because of the Erika disaster.…