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BY PHILIP FINE

PATRICK Graham has been elected chairman of the 2004 Board of Directors of Airports Council International-North America (ACI-NA). Graham, who will oversee a 22-member board, is executive director of the Savannah/Hilton Head International Airport.

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BY PHILIP FINE

HEAVYWEIGHT cargo specialists, Emery Worldwide Airlines, has been sentenced for violating America’s Hazardous Material Transportation Act. The company admitted that on 12 occasions it failed to provide proper notice to its pilots that they were transporting dangerous goods, including nuclear material.…

BY RICHARD HURST
Nigeria is widely regarded as the country as the hub of money-laundering activities in the region, despite having a reasonably comprehensive set of anti-money laundering laws in place. Press and non-governmental organisation reports have highlighted cases where Nigerian banks have been hit by money launderers trying to conceal illicit earnings from corruption, the arms trade, narcotics and the e-mail frauds.…

BY PHILIP FINE

MANY key players in the US drinks industry have been trying to crash the low-carb party currently making aspects of the country’s food industry giddy with sales. The drinks producers have seen the statistics: 15 per cent of Americans (32 million people) are now following high-protein reduced-carbohydrate plans such as the Atkins Diet; sales of high protein items like meat, cheese and eggs are up and high carb products like potatoes and pasta are down or stagnant; and over 800 new products that make low-carb claims have been introduced in the last three years.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission is investigating a proposed deal effectively allying the European Union’s (EU) two companies enriching uranium for the nuclear industry. Brussels fears the purchase by France’s Areva of a 50 per cent stake in the Enrichment Technology Company from German-Dutch-British Urenco could cut competition and raise nuclear fuel prices, given enrichment represents about 35 per cent of fuel production costs and seven per cent for nuclear electricity generally.…

BY PHILIP FINE

THERE is a two-word prefix that seems to be coming out of every American food manufacturer’s new-product department: Low-Carb.

The US is fighting an obesity problem. A staggering (in some cases – literally) 64 per cent of the population is overweight and the number of people carrying more than 100 pounds over their ideal weight has quadrupled in the last 20 years to one in every hundred.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
ROYAL Wine Corp. based in New Jersey, USA, will open what will be, North America’s largest kosher winery on the west coast. The US$13 million, 73,000-square-foot winery will be built in southern California, and is scheduled to be completed next autumn.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
NATURAL disasters cost the world US$60 billion in 2003, up from around US$55 billion the previous year, a Munich Re assessment for the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) has claimed. The bulk of this year’s losses were caused by weather-related catastrophes, said UNEP, which is linking them with global warming.…

BY PHILIP FINE

AMERICA realises it has a collective weight problem. And given that 64 per cent of the US population is overweight or obese and the fastest rising group of overweight Americans is children, the confectionary industry is most certainly in the firing line.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE ORGANISATION for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) has issued a white paper on improving corporate governance in Latin America. Priorities for action included taking voting rights seriously; treating shareholders fairly; and improving financial reporting. * http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/25/2/18976210.pdf…