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COULD HEAVY METAL THORIUM FUEL CARS IN THE FUTURE?
BY KEITH NUTHALL
LITTLE more excites the international auto industry more than the search for an alternative to fossil fuels, and an American company is now looking seriously into the idea of using a heavy element thorium to generate locomotive power.…
AVIATION SECTOR THINKS OUT OF THE BOX TO REDUCE FUEL EMISSIONS
BY MARK ROWE
IN the global push to make transport greener, the aviation industry is just beginning to take a serious look at how to ease the sector into using less fossil fuel. Scandinavian Airlines (SAS), like many other airlines, is currently looking into projects that scrutinise kerosene biofuel blends in the quest to make transportation more environmentally friendly.…
NEW DIGITAL MARKETPLACE SOLUTION GIVES CSG's A FIGHTING CHANCE AGAINST THIRD PARTY CONTENT PLAYERS
BY KEITH NUTHALL
AS the global digital content marketplace continues to evolve rapidly, communications service providers (CSPs) have been increasingly losing revenue to third party content providers. For years now, entertainment and broadcasting companies, search engines and more have been harming CSP’s revenue streams and brand value.…
ITALIAN USURY OFFERS ORGANISED CRIME AMPLE LAUNDERING OPPORTUNITIES
BY LEE ADENDORFF
EARLIER this year the search of the house of a notorious octogenarian loan shark in Naples made headlines in Italy. The news was given particular attention not because of the elderly gentleman’s reputation as one of the city’s most prominent usurers, but because of the amount of money investigators found hidden in his home: over Euro EUR5 million (US dollars USD7.15 million) in cash stashed behind tiles and false walls together with hundreds of thousands of Euros in debtor cheques.…
ITALY SAYS NO TO NUCLEAR PROGRAMME
BY LEE ADENDORFF
ITALIANS have voted overwhelmingly against a return to nuclear power, repealing regulation that allowed for the construction of new reactors in a national referendum held on Sunday and Monday. On the nuclear question 54.79% of citizens responded, and 94.05% of these voted against the reconstruction of nuclear reactors in Italy.…
TERRORIST FINANCE INFORMATION EXCHANGE SYSTEM REMAINS POLITICALLY CONTROVERSIAL
BY ALAN OSBORN
FEW transatlantic agreements have given rise to more friction and animosity than the Terrorist Finance Tracking Programme (TFTP) set up by the US Treasury in 2001 shortly after the 9/11 terrorist attacks and in direct response to them.…
CHINA'S WEB PORTALS AND SEARCH ENGINES DRIVE SALES FOR INTERNATIONAL COSMETICS BRANDS
BY MARK GODFREY
WITH some researchers (most recently Credit Suisse’s China analysts) predicting Chinese e-commerce revenues will grow 100%-a-year to 2015 it’s not surprising international brands are scrambling to understand and tap the dynamics of the country’s web portals. Top of the local business-to-consumer pile Taobao has evolved from an eBay knock off to a massively popular resource for wholesalers and B2C operators.…
NEW CENTRAL ASIA FATF PUSHES ANTI-MONEYLAUNDERING PROGRESS IN REGION
BY MARK ROWE and KEITH NUTHALL
CENTRAL Asia is often in the news regarding political instability, and the complexity of the region’s borders and ethnicities make for an opacity that can encourage the growth of organised crime. Also, being far from the centres of anti-money laundering activities and standard setting – in Europe, north America and east Asia, the region’s often authoritarian governments have a poor reputation regarding the enforcement of law and judicial probity.…
JAPAN AIRLINES MOVE STEADILY TOWARDS USING BIOFUELS
BY JULIAN RYALL
IN the aftermath of the worst natural disaster in living memory, with the impact of the March 11 earthquake and tsunami on Japan’s economy being assessed closely, its government is conducting a rapid rethink of its energy priorities – and that could be good news for the biofuels sector.…
FOOTBALL, THE BEAUTIFUL GAME FOR MONEY LAUNDERERS WARN FINANCIAL EXPERTS
BY MARK ROWE, ALAN OSBORN and PAUL COCHRANE
IT may be no coincidence that football (or soccer as it is known by north American readers) is generally regarded as corrupt by law enforcement agencies and has chosen to stage two of its next major spectacles – the 2012 European championships, and the 2018 World Cup, in Ukraine and Russia.…