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BY MATTHEW BRACE
WITH Australia sharing the front-line in President Bush’s war against terrorism with Britain and the USA, and also having witnessed its citizens dying in last year’s Bali nightclub terror attack, it is maybe not surprising that it has been tightening its money laundering legislation, especially as regards terrorists.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE UN Food and Agricultural Organisation has urged banana producers to vary the varieties they produce to defend against disease, notably the Panama Disease, which has been hitting Cavendish bananas, mostly sold in Europe and north America.…

BY MARK ROWE and ALAN OSBORN, in London, PHILIP FINE and MONICA DOBIE, in Montreal, and RICHARD HURST, in Johannesburg

RATCHETING up security has been a prime concern of the nuclear industry since the September 11 attacks, with all countries possessing commercial reactors addressing the issue to some extent.…

BY PHILIP FINE

AMERICAN President George W Bush has still not let it be known how his administration will fund a seminal sea safety bill that recently came into law. Earlier this month (February), Bush unveiled his 2004 budget request and, oddly, offered no money for the provisions of The Maritime Security Act of 2002, which requires

detailed port security plans, more screening of cargo, upgraded navigational equipment and an increase in off-shore surveillance to 12 miles from three,.…

BY PHILIP FINE

A NEW "R & D Ranch" has introduced 1,100 new value-added beef products to the US market from 1999 to 2001, according to America’s National Cattlemen’s Beef Association, which set it up. Experts working for this body (formal name: New Product Development Team) help create new products that will drive demand for beef.…

BY MARK ROWE
A SONG or customs passed down through generations by an aboriginal tribe can reveal as much about that society as a physical artefact such as their traditional clothing or funerary urns. But while these last two items can be preserved for posterity easily enough, the challenge to retain more intangible objects such as a musical story is far greater.…

BY PHILIP FINE

COCA-COLA is continuing the global rollout of its energy drink Burn, introducing the product in Ukraine. The drink has been targeted to clubbers, athletes and even dozy workers but the main distribution point in Ukraine is the local discos.…

BY PHILIP FINE

Skyrocketing claims and a proposed new bill trying to make its way to the

US senate have put the issue of mould on the minds of American insurance

companies.

Several high-dollar claims have been going through

the US courts.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE GROCERY Manufacturers of America group has applauded a new trade agreement between the United States and Chile. The GMA says the pact will spur freer trade of processed food to south America, and singles out the agreement’s proposed reductions in tariffs for such items as breakfast cereals, pasta and french fries.…

BY MATTHEW BRACE, in Brisbane, EDWARD PETERS, in Hong Kong, RICHARD HURST, in Johannesburg, MARK ROWE, in London, SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYAKA, in Columbo and MONICA DOBIE, in Montreal.
FRAUD is fraud, jurists might say. And although jurisprudence generally has a universal flavour and there are frauds that are committed the world over, it would be a travesty of the truth to say that crimes involving deception uniform by nature.…