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BY KEITH NUTHALL
FARMERS may know them as the high priests of capitalism and expect them to preach against agricultural subsidies, but a recent report from the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) has laid bare doubts that a truly effective farm support system has yet been invented, let alone implemented.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
HEADS of veterinary services from all African countries have agreed that better monitoring of livestock movements, including the identification of animals, is required to stem the flow of disease amongst the continent’s farms. The Conference of the Regional Commission for Africa of the Organisation International des Épizooties agreed the steps would promote trade and local meat supplies.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE INTERNATIONAL Chamber of Commerce has published a guide alerting financial services businesses about how to avoid falling victim to fraud. Preventing Financial Instrument Fraud describes danger signals, explaining how frauds are mounted and the psychological manipulation upon which they are based.…

KEITH NUTHALL
THE MOST important driver of reform in the institutions of the European Union today is the impending enlargement of the EU eastwards, to take in (Greek) Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Slovakia and Slovenia.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
THE AUSTRALIAN government has resorted to hiring a public relations firm to persuade the citizens of South Australia (SA) to abandon its opposition to plans to install a low level nuclear waste in outback Woomera.

Hill and Knowlton, the international communications company, which has with 66 offices worldwide, has been given an A$300,000 federal government contract to run a campaign from its Melbourne office.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
TWO international organisations have highlighted opportunities for European water companies, which may be called upon in the next few decades to boost supplies to arid parts of the world, notably the Middle East.

The UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation’s (UNESCO) World Water Development Report says this region is the poorest in terms of water availability, with Kuwait being the most parched (10 m³ is available per person annually), followed by Gaza Strip (52 m³), the United Arab Emirates (58 m³), Bahamas (66 m³), Qatar (94 m³), Maldives (103 m³), Libya (113 m³), Saudi Arabia (118 m³), and Malta (129 m³).…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
IF there was ever a good example to show how the economic interests of humankind generally trump those of the environment, look no further than the Aral Sea, or rather, seas, as it is today. Once a beautiful 66,900 square km inland great lake, it has since the 1960’s shrunk to less than half this size and split in two.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
FRAUDSTERS have developed two new twists on the ever-popular advance fee scam. The International Chamber of Commerce has warned of a Nigerian oil fraud particularly featuring Bonny Light oil, where fake oil traders offer up to 1 million barrels at below market rates, following the payment of cash fees of around US$50,000.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
EUROPEAN Union (EU) Competition Commissioner Mario Monti is to ask his colleagues on the European Commission to ban two special tax regimes – in Netherlands and Belgium – while allowing a threatened taxation system in Ireland to continue.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE INSURANCE sector may be so vulnerable to money laundering, its exposure should be probed in depth, the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) has said. Its report on Money Laundering Typologies concludes that brokers often have “little or no training in anti-money laundering issues” and are used to “place cash funds into various financial institutions.”…