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BY PHILIP FINE

AT LEAST no one in today’s America has to contend with Carry Nation. She was the late-19th century Kansas reformer who crusaded against the sale and consumption of alcohol. Known as the original saloon smasher, she would burst into bars and cause as much damage as she could to drinking establishments.…

Keith Nuthall
THE ORGANISATION for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) has claimed it is making headway in chasing so-called “harmful” tax regimes from the world’s statute books, claiming 18 have been scrapped since the year 2000 and another 14 have been reformed.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
MONACO is all about money. A glamorous speck of high-rises looming above the French Riviera, it is famous for wealthy glamour, tax exiles, racing-cars and gambling. Given this cocktail, it is hardly surprising that this, Europe’s second smallest country by geography, has attracted allegations that it has been the site of money laundering.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
AIRSHIP owners in the 1930’s would have laughed: hydrogen – the fuel of the future? Remember the Hindenburg? Plunging to the ground over the USA in a ball of fire, crushing a civil airline industry as it fell.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Parliament has approved a proposed regulation tightening and harmonising EU food and animal feed controls. As it informally agreed amendments in advance with EU ministers, the law is now expected to be rubber-stamped. One change insists that national governments erect “effective, proportionate and dissuasive” sanctions to breaches of these controls and another says relevant information held by food authorities must be publicised quickly, except data “covered by professional secrecy”.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
A GROWING list of American health insurers are phasing out coverage for obesity related procedures such as gastric bypasses. In the last year, companies such as Kentucky-based Humana Inc. and UnitedHealthcare (SPELLING CORRECT), the country’s largest insurer, have stopped paying for such surgeries.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
SIGNIFICANT delays are now expected to the introduction of a package of European Union (EU) food hygiene laws, with the European Parliament sticking to its guns over the need to allow public officials to inspect the slaughter of pigs and veal calves, a job the European Commission would allow abattoirs to undertake themselves.…

BY MARK ROWE
Mention Albania and money and one is drawn back to the extraordinary pyramid schemes that gripped the country in the mid-1990s as it emerged into a post-Stalinist dawn. Albanians poured in funds with an enthusiasm as remarkable as it was misguided.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
MANY professions are engaged in the war against money laundering but it seems increasingly plain that customs officers are at the very forefront of the campaign. Most crime (with some forms of terrorism a conspicuous exception) is committed mainly for financial profit and that profit has to be re-cycled if the criminals are to gain anything at all from it.…

BY MATTHEW BRACE
A NEW volcanic gas and ash detector created by Australian scientists could enable the airport and airline industries to save both money and lives. The ‘Ground-based Infra-Red Detection’ (G-bIRD) system is being developed by Australia’s CSIRO (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation) and the country’s Tenix Defence Electronic Systems division.…