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BY ALAN OSBORN
BRITAIN is not normally thought of being subject to landslides and avalanches in the way that Alpine countries are, but the coming of climate change has made these natural disasters a real and potentially very expensive threat to us.…

BY MARK ROWE
THE METEROLOGICAL Office, the UK’s national weather service, the Met Office, has launched a new version of its satellite-distribution weather advice service. The new upgraded SADIS2G (second generation) is being rolled out to air traffic control units (ATCs) and will gradually supersede the existing SADIS system.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
DETAILS of restrictions imposed on exports to European buyers of leather raw materials have been highlighted in the detailed European Union (EU) market report. It identifies India, China, the US, Pakistan and Russia as “very important markets” for the supply of leather raw materials, whilst Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Egypt, Indonesia, South Africa, Malaysia and Brazil are labelled as “important suppliers (mainly by tanners)”.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
QUACKERY is not the kind of medical practice that pharmaceutical manufacturers might expect the World Health Organisation (WHO) to promote, but facing sub-Saharan Africa’s ever-increasing AIDS/HIV emergency, it will use any resource. It is not that WHO officials are recommending goats be buried in the front garden of any African HIV patient, but they are asking for the help of traditional health practitioners to promote standard prevention efforts.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE WORLD Bank has announced a US$140 million grant and loan package to improve west African food production, notably confectionary ingredient export quality. The West Africa Agricultural Productivity Programme will for instance establish a centre of excellence in Ghana for researching tree crops (cocoa, coffee, cashew, palm tree, rubber tree, Arabic gum, shea nut and mangoes).…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE ASSOCIATION of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) has agreed how its members should cooperate in a major disaster, such as another Tsunami. Countries including Indonesia, the Philippines and Thailand approved a comprehensive deal on how they should coordinate military and civil emergency services.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has rebuffed calls from the European Chemical Industry Council (CEFIC) for increased European Union (EU) tariff protection against dumped styrene-butadiene-styrene thermoplastic rubber (SBS), an adhesive ingredient. Furthermore, it has proposed abolishing existing anti-dumping duties on the product on Taiwanese producers.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A UNION of African Chambers of Commerce, Industry, Agriculture and Professions (UACCIAP) has been launched, a new organisation bringing together business interests throughout Africa aiming to “dynamise” their role in the continent.…

BY MATTHEW BRACE
FIGHTING money laundering is about getting your hands dirty. The Financial Action Task Force (FATF) may pronounce global standards that it would like jurisdictions to follow, but all governments need help, and often regional bodies are better placed to do the detailed work than more remote global organisations.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
A NEW tank-and-siphon system removing oil from water will soon be launched internationally. Developed at the University of New South Wales, Australia, the Extended Gravity Oil Water Separation (EGOWS), removes oil to below 10 parts per million, requires no power and can be used unattended.…