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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 RAGHAVENDRA VERMA, in New Delhi

AN ALL-INDIA topper in school, the best performer in 1980 within his country’s Chartered Accountants’ Institute, and the first to hoist the sail of accountancy-outsourcing to India: Sunil Goel, 49, combines his academic knowledge, business skills and passion for information technology to reap the benefits of globally expanding business.…

BY MONICA DOBIE

AMERICAN researchers are attacking a topical disease that kills thousands of people each year with an unusual and potentially alarming weapon – transgenic mosquitoes. Scientists from the University of California, Irvine, have managed to genetically engineer mosquitoes that are resistant to Type 2 dengue fever, the most common strain.…

BY MONICA DOBIE

A PROTOTYPE book-on-demand machine that prints, cuts and binds up to 20 books in an hour has been launched at the World Bank Bookstore in Washington. The Espresso Book Machine uses digital files to "make" books listed on a catalogue.…

BY ALAN OSBORN

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WE’RE barely a third of the way through 2006 but it’s already clear that the year is going to be a hugely important one for European Union (EU) legislation affecting both the alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinks industries.…

BY MONICA DOBIE, in Ottawa

CANADIAN scientists have confirmed a hybrid bear born of a grizzly bear and a polar bear was recently killed by a sports-hunter in Canada’s Northwest Territories (NWT). The bear was a creamy polar bear colour but also had long claws, a humped back, shallow face and brown patches around its eyes and nose: grizzly traits.…

BY MONICA DOBIE

A NEW book-on-demand machine – the first of its kind – that prints, cuts and binds up to 20 books in an hour has been launched at the World Bank bookstore, Washington DC. The Espresso Book Machine uses digital files to make books listed on a catalogue submitted by publishers or institutions such as universities.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

FORMER Pentagon deputy Paul Wolfowitz has brought the zeal and energy he applied to invading Iraq to his new job as president of the World Bank. Only this time his target is corruption everywhere, rather than despotism in Iraq, and his weapons are legal and political, not bombs and missiles.…

BY ALAN OSBORN

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LEADING British museums, including the Natural History Museum, the Victoria & Albert and the Tate Modern, are to receive government grants for energy saving and carbon reduction schemes, cultural and learning programmes under a GBPounds 12 million allocation from the Treasury’s Invest to Save Budget scheme.…

BY PAUL COCHRANE, in Cairo

WITH the fight against money laundering and counter terrorism financing relatively new to the Middle East (the first plenary session of the Middle East and North Africa Financial Action Task Force

– MENA-FATF – was only held last year), financial institutions from the US and MENA met in Cairo for a Private Sector Dialogue (PSD) conference to discuss the implementation of international regulations in the region.…