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BY PAUL COCHRANE, in Beirut

OVER the last five years the Middle East and North Africa region has firmly joined the global effort to fight money laundering and terrorist financing by setting up national financial intelligence units and a regional watchdog, the Middle East and North Africa Financial Action Task Force (MENA-FATF).…

STORIES BY KEITH NUTHALL

FISH health inspectors have launched an investigation into how a deadly disease struck at an harvested natural oyster bed at Burton Beach, River Cleddau, in south west Wales. Movements of oysters in the areas have been blocked to prevent the spread of bonamia ostreae, an illness dreaded by oyster farmers, because the parasite spreads rapidly amongst this shellfish.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

BRITISH fish health inspectors have launched an investigation into how a deadly disease struck at an harvested natural oyster bed at Burton Beach, River Cleddau, in south west Wales. Movements of oysters in the areas have been blocked to prevent the spread of the dreaded bonamia ostreae.…

BY SYMON ROSS, in Auckland

INTERNATIONAL law enforcement agencies acknowledge that the laundering of criminal proceeds generated by transnational crime remains a problem in the Pacific region despite increased legislation designed to curb the cleaning of dirty money.

With no Pacific countries now on the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) blacklist of uncooperative territories, international monitors could be forgiven for focusing their attentions elsewhere.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) has taken another step towards securing valuable fishing rights for its fleets in the Pacific, with the EU Council of Ministers approving an access agreement with Micronesia. For nine years, Spanish and Portuguese longliners along with Spanish and French freezer seiners will be able to fish the archipelago’s rich tuna fishing grounds north of Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands.…

BY SYMON ROSS, in Christchurch, New Zealand,

THE DAVEY family swapped arable faming on the Lincolnshire Wolds for mixed farming on New Zealand’s South Island five years ago and say they haven’t looked back since.

Bill and Lynda Davey had felt the future of family farming in England was in serious jeopardy and made a life changing decision to look overseas.…

BY MATTHEW BRACE

INDONESIA’S paint and coatings industry continues to develop, with growth in sectors being led by increases in exports of furniture, and the introduction of new coatings products and systems.

Overall increased domestic demand for paints and coatings in Indonesia has led some companies to expand.…

BY JULIAN RYALL, in Tokyo

THE HEADLINES in the Japanese press in recent months are likely to have

piqued the interest of anyone looking for a destination where ill-gotten

gains can be made to appear legitimate, let alone the concern of global

money-laundering authorities.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

A DIPLOMATIC row between Germany and Denmark could have important implications for future drink can recycling levies that might be introduced anywhere in the European Union (EU). Denmark has formally requested that the European Commission force the German government to restrict an annual cross-border shopping trade involving Danish consumers buying around 400 million cans of beer in Germany.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

A BID by the Spanish government to secure more North Sea and Baltic Sea access rights for its fishermen has been thrown out by the European Court of Justice (ECJ). After Spain joined the European Union in 1986, it was given some special transitional access to these waters (from 1996), but these expired in 2002, leaving Spanish vessels – claimed Madrid – with unfairly limited quotas.…