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ILO VIOLENCE AT WORK REPORT PSYCHOLOGICAL VIOLENCE
STORIES BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE INTERNATIONAL Labour Organisation (ILO) has warned of both an increase in violence at work worldwide and of an increasing variety of threats, which are increasingly psychological rather than purely physical. In its latest global study of workplace violence, ILO says: "Bullying, harassment, mobbing and allied behaviours can be just as damaging as outright physical violence.…
DESIGN RIGHTS EU WIPO SYSTEM COORDINATION
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Parliament has approved linking the European Union’s (EU) design protection system to that run globally by the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO). This will formally tie the EU’s design protection regulation to WIPO’s Geneva Act of the Hague Agreement concerning the international registration of industrial designs.…
NEW ZEALAND PACIFIC MONEY LAUNDERING ORGANISED CRIME RISK
BY SYMON ROSS, in Auckland
INTERNATIONAL law enforcement agencies acknowledge that the laundering of criminal proceeds generated by transnational crime remains a problem in the Pacific region despite increased legislation designed to curb the cleaning of dirty money.
With no Pacific countries now on the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) blacklist of uncooperative territories, international monitors could be forgiven for focusing their attentions elsewhere.…
ECJ EU JURISDICTION - REYNOLDS, JAPAN TOBACCO CASE
STORIES BY KEITH NUTHALL
TOBACCO giants RJ Reynolds and Japan Tobacco may lose a comprehensive legal challenge to the unsuccessful efforts of the European Commission to sue for racketeering at a New York federal US court. The case, which rival Philip Morris later settled out of court, sparked claims that the Commission had acted beyond its powers.…
JAPAN MONEY LAUNDERING FEATURE
BY JULIAN RYALL, in Tokyo
THE HEADLINES in the Japanese press in recent months are likely to have
piqued the interest of anyone looking for a destination where ill-gotten
gains can be made to appear legitimate, let alone the concern of global
money-laundering authorities.…
JAPAN MONEY LAUNDERING FEATURE
BY JULIAN RYALL, in Tokyo
THE HEADLINES in the Japanese press in recent months are likely to have
piqued the interest of anyone looking for a destination where ill-gotten
gains can be made to appear legitimate, let alone the concern of global
money-laundering authorities.…
JAPAN SUMITOMO VOLKSWAGEN DEAL GERMANY EUROPEAN COMMISSION
BY JULIAN RYALL, in Tokyo
OSAKA, Japan-based Sumitomo Electrical Industries Ltd has got a foot in the door of the German automobile wiring harness market with its purchase of Volkswagen Bordnetze GmbH.
Approved by the European Commission, using its authority over international mergers affecting Europe, the cost of the deal is not being announced, but the Japanese company believes the acquisition will allow it to broaden its business throughout Europe.…
ECJ BASF VITAMIN CARTEL FINE REDUCED
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Court of Justice has reduced European Commission fines on Germany’s BASF for participating in several vitamin cartels, from Euro 296.16 to 236.84 million, and on Japan’s Daiichi from Euro 23.4 to 18 million.
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WTO REPORT DOHA DEVELOPMENT ROUND - MODALITIES FOLLOW UP - ROUND CONCLUSION
BY KEITH NUTHALL
INTRODUCTION
THE WORLD’S multilateral food trading system today stands at a crossroads: faced with the suspension of the World Trade Organisation’s Doha Development Round, it can either retreat to protectionism, leavened by a series of competitive bilateral trade deals, or it can grasp the nettle of liberal free trade, slash subsidies and tariffs, and then watch the economic rewards roll in.…
INDIA PAINT INDUSTRY FEATURE
BY RAGHAVENDRA VERMA, in New Delhi
THE INDIAN economy is booming and so, as a result, is the country’s US$1.8 billion paint and coating industry, which registered a 10 to 12% annual growth for third consecutive year, taking 2002-03, 2003-04, and 2004-05 into account.…