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BY KEITH NUTHALL

A GLOOMY assessment from the United Nations Food & Agriculture Organisation (FAO) has warned that not only could bird flu now be endemic in Turkey but that there is a serious risk of migratory birds from Africa this Spring carrying the pathogen further afield.…

BY STEVEN SWINDELLS, in Johannesburg

SOUTHERN Africa’s leading generic drugs manufacturer Aspen is confident that it can capitalise on the increasing take up of life-prolonging generic anti-retroviral (ARV) drugs, in the fight against HIV-AIDS. But industry analysts have questioned demand forecasts for ARVs and warn that rival Indian generic manufacturers could be a threat to Aspen’s market ambitions.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

BANKS in Surinam and Guyana have been asked to operate a rice production improvement fund worth Euro 10 million, aimed at helping these South American countries prosper in world food markets. The Caribbean Forum of the African Caribbean Pacific (ACP) States, or CARIFORUM, is spending Euro 6.5 million in Guyana and Euro 3.5 million in Surinam, to invest in rice processors, millers and growers, increasing the sector’s "efficiency and competitiveness".…

BY Raghavendra Verma in New Delhi

Astrology, philosophy, cookery and international bestsellers led December sales in the booming billion-pound book market in India. The country is also the world’s third largest producer of English titles.

"Reading habits are picking up and so is purchasing power but retailers are reluctant to provide sales figures so even a rough estimate of total sales is next to impossible."…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) has demonstrated that there are limits to the authority coastal states may have over its fishing fleets in international access deals by refusing to renew a protocol with Angola. Indeed, the European Commission has asked EU ministers to denounce a 1989 agreement underpinning a series of access deals, after refusing to accept a new Angolan law on ‘biological aquatic resources’.…

BY ALAN OSBORN

OUT of 60 recommendations made in a report last December by the European Parliament on strategies to prevent human trafficking only one specifically mentioned money laundering and even there the message was essentially "carry on as before" and "keep your eyes open".…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

The EU’s main lending institution, the European Investment Bank, is to make a loan of £450 million to Transport for London (Tfl) to help finance construction of the East London Line Project (ELLP) – a key component of a pounds 10 billion programme to improve transport links for the 2012 Olympic Games.…

BY DEIRDRE MASON

THE MEDIA rush to pick up on the revival of nuclear energy as a serious UK option, made plain in the Department of Trade and Industry’s recent Energy Review consultation document, has diverted attention from which tail will, in practice, be wagging the UK energy dog over the coming months.…

BY DEIRDRE MASON

THE LATEST round of European Union (EU) proposals to tighten up laws fighting the use of illegally unsafe commercial shipping, announced on November 23, 2005, will place shippers who want to continue operating in EU-controlled waters under closer scrutiny than ever, says the European Commission.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

ECONOMIC growth, especially in emerging markets, is forcing international food businesses to take a closer look at opportunities in potentially unstable countries, and the global aid community is keen to help. One international institution is well positioned, especially given the increasing demand for development projects to be largely private financed: the Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency, or MIGA, of the World Bank.…