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BY MARK ROWE
THE INTERNATIONAL Atomic Energy Agency has made its first visit to a nuclear establishment in North Korea since 1994, when the isolationist Asian state withdrew its membership of the agency.

The visit is understood to have been facilitated by the North Koreans’ desire to move ahead with their stalled plans for the development of two light water nuclear reactors.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A DRAFT United Nations Convention against Corruption has been considered for the first time by a special committee established to present a final version to member governments for approval.

The document currently includes plenty of square brackets, with even the purpose of the convention up for grabs, with two Article One’s being discussed.…

Keith Nuthall
THE UNITED States government has informed the disputes settlement body of the World Trade Organisation that it “intended to comply” with the final Havana Club ruling issued at the start of this year, although it warned diplomats that it “would require for that purpose a reasonable period of time.”…

BY PHILIP FINE

AMERICAN mail-order retailer, Land’s End, has launched a catalogue for large-sized women. While the company has sold clothes up to size 26 over the last few years, executives decided that there was sufficient demand for a separate catalogue.…

BY MARK ROWE
SINGAPORE Power is to build a power generation plant worth between Sing. $50 million and $150 million, (Pounds 20m – pounds 60m), near Melbourne in Australia’s Victoria state. The eventual capacity of the open cycle gas turbine peaking power station will range from 90 megawatts (MW) to 270 MW, although the exact final capacity has yet to be decided.…

BY MARK ROWE
JAPANESE synthetic fibre giant Toray International, one of the world’s largest textile and chemical companies has teamed up with and Mitsui Soko, Japan’s second largest warehousing company, and online logistics firm Bolero International.The companies are jointly running a phased testing of bolero.net…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A HANDBOOK on ‘Safety and health in small-scale surface mines’ has been published by the International Labour Organisation, which wants to improve the working conditions of the 13 million miners it says work in smaller operations. It especially addresses countries where health and safety regimes are weak, setting out basic principles where there is a lack of regulation and stresses the important role of mines inspectorates.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
BACK in the last century, it was easy to find economists who liked a little corruption, saying it oiled the wheels of government and commerce. Today, this complacency has gone, with most development specialists saying bribes weaken governments and shrink private investment.…

BY PHILIP FINE

NURSING homes in America’s south have seen their insurance liability rates pushed so high by "predatory" negligence claims and rise so high that many are being forced to take drastic measures.

Florida, a highly litigious and demographically older state, is now bereft of any state-residing insurers able to write long-term care liability insurance.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE UNITED States government has informed the disputes settlement body of the World Trade Organisation that it “intended to comply” with the final Havana Club ruling issued at the start of this year, although it warned diplomats that it “would require for that purpose a reasonable period of time.”…