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LUCKY STRIKE
BY MARK ROWE
THE BEST selling international brand, Lucky Strike, launched in 1871, is older than BAT and its eye-catching bull’s eye remains one of the oldest trademarks in the world. It is sold in some 90 countries and is BAT’s premier global brand for the key ASU30 segment of the market, particularly with urban smokers.…
FISH OIL
BY KEITH NUTHALL
SCIENTISTS at Australia’s University of Tasmania have created technology to produce beneficial omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids from marine microorganisms.
These acids are found in fish oils but derive from what fish eat rather than the fish themselves. This breakthrough comes on the heels of the discovery that southern hemisphere fish oils have higher amounts of omega-3s than those in northern waters.…
AGRICULTURAL TALKS
BY KEITH NUTHALL
FEED the world. Bob Geldof. Don’t they know it’s Christmas time? Food aid: it is supposed to be simple. Poor countries have hungry people. Rich countries have fat people. The developed world sends food to the developing world.…
EAST TIMOR
BY MARK ROWE
NEWLY independent East Timor has signed a treaty with Australia dividing Timor Sea oil and gas revenues. The Timor Sea Treaty awards East Timor 90 per cent of the profits from oil and gas developments in a designated joint production area, guaranteeing the country US$5 billion in earnings over the next 17 years.…
GLOBAL POLL
Keith Nuthall
A WORLDWIDE poll of 1,000 business experts has revealed overwhelming global support for the idea of agreeing uniform international accounting principles. The survey, staged by the International Chamber of Commerce and the Munich-based Ifo Institute, revealed that the experts generally considered uniform principles were either “very important,” (51per cent), or “important,” (46 per cent), for achieving higher standards.…
ICC SCAM
BY MONICA DOBIE
THE INSURANCE industry is being warned by the International Chamber of Commerce’s Commercial Crime Bureau (CCB) to be suspicious of documents promoting policies using the good name of the ICC.
Fraudsters are mentioning a fake standard called the “Modified Insurance Guarantee ICC 4081,” used in fraudulent documents relating to bank guarantees and letters of credit to add credibility to fictitious policies and high yield investment schemes.…
DIVERS - AUSTRALIA
BY MATTHEW BRACE, in Sydney
THE SAFETY of divers working in all sectors of the fish farming industry is being increased because of new dive tables designed in Australia. Trials of the new tables in Tasmania have shown a 50-fold reduction in the number of cases of decompression illness, or “the bends.”…
DEFAMATION AUSTRALIA
BY MATTHEW BRACE
SYDNEY is the “defamation capital of the English-speaking world” according to a British legal expert working in Australia’s largest city. Based on his research, figures show that one writ is served for every 79,000 people in the state of New South Wales; a higher rate than England, (one writ per 121,000 people), and much higher than the United States, where the proportion us one writ per 2.3 million people.…
VIRGIN BLUE
BY MATTHEW BRACE, in Sydney
AUSTRALIA’S low fare carrier, Virgin Blue, (owned by Sir Richard Branson), has signed a contract reflecting the high standard of skills commanded by civilian airlines worldwide: to train pilots who crew VIP aircraft for the Royal Australian Air Force.…
ELECTRONIC NOSE
BY MATTHEW BRACE
ELECTRONIC noses being tested in Australia could be used to monitor smell levels from meat processing centres. The odour sentinels, created by the Centre for ChemoSensory Research, in Sydney, contain conductive material which detects smells above certain levels of intensity and can identify the source.…