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BY SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYAKE
NIPPON Paper Industries Co., Ltd. of Japan has developed a new type of printing paper called Pegasus Harmony, that is lightweight, white and prevents strike through, the penetration of printing through the paper). The company says that its luster has been improved, with three-dimensional images of photographed products being displayed more clearly, with sharply reduced glaring.…

Keith Nuthall
RUSSIA has been advised, in secret, by the United Nations Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf about whether it can claim maritime territory in the Pacific and the Arctic, enabling it to control the North Pole.

The UN agency has been studying geological claims lodged by Moscow that wide swathes of the Arctic Ocean are part of Russia’s ‘continental shelf,’ areas of sea that are shallow enough or contain enough sedimentary rocks to be legally defined as national territory under international law.…

KEITH NUTHALL
This is based on a feature I wrote for Geographical Magazine a couple of years ago but which I am now focusing solely on Tasmania rather than nationwide.

Tasmanian aquaculture

Matthew Brace, Sydney

Australia is sold to the world as a vast baking continent with quartzite ridges stretching to the horizon like the fossilised carcasses of fallen dinosaurs.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
THE EUROPEAN Commission has filed an appeal against the dismissal of its cigarette smuggling action in the US against three tobacco companies: Philip Morris, R. J. Reynolds and Japan Tobacco. Notably, it has received formal support in the proceedings from the US Federal Law Enforcement Officers Association for its action, along with the World Health Organisation, the US Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union’s research Commissioner Philippe Busquin has backed bids by both France and Spain to host the large ITER (International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor) in, respectively, the cities of Cadarache and Vandellós. His support follows the announcement that Japan has formally proposed the city of Rokkasho as a site, joining Canada in making a formal application.…

BY MATTHEW BRACE
A PIONEERING Australian stem cell company is teaming up with an international Japanese biopharmaceutical firm to build Japan’s first dedicated embryonic stem cell company. The expansion into Japan is part of Melbourne-based Stem Cell Sciences’ strategy to create a global cell therapy company.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A FEASIBILITY study has been carried out by the EU’s Joint Research Centre for the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to investigate possibilities for incorporating a neutron coincidence counter into the Hybrid K-Edge Densitometer (HKED) to be delivered by ITU under an ITU-NMCC (Nuclear Material Control Centre) contract for the Rokkasho Reprocessing Plant, Japan.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE WORLD Bank’s International Finance Corporation has agreed to reschedule US$204 million of its loans to Star Petroleum Refining Company Limited, Thailand, which is 64 per cent owned by Chevron-Texaco. The Thai company’s overall debt is US$549 million.…

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.…

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.…