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BY KEITH NUTHALL
A PAPER released to the United Nations’ 11th Congress on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice has claimed that the overwhelming majority of reported fraud cases are in the developing world, not rich countries. Furthermore, it claimed that – looking at 1999-2002 figures, 51% of such cases are reported in Africa.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE WORLD’S crime-fighting great and good met in Bangkok in April, at the United Nations’ 11th Congress on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice. They decided rich countries should better help the poor to fight organised crime. Keith Nuthall reports.…

BY MATTHEW BRACE
THERE are not many countries left on the Financial Action Task Force’s (FATF) blacklist of dodgy jurisdictions regarding money laundering regulations, and one of the last stragglers – the South Pacific nation of the Cook Islands (a New Zealand dependency) – was provisionally removed in February.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
CHINA’S presence at the meeting of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) in Paris in February was a powerful reminder of how the world’s great economic, trade and regulatory institutions are changing, with consequences that few people probably fully grasp today.…

BY MATTHEW BRACE
THE INCREASING global demand for mineral resources – especially from Asia – has breathed new life into a remote yet highly and diversely mineralised part of Australia. The island of Tasmania, off the south east coast of the continent, is revelling in a mining boom, the like of which it has not seen for more than a century.…

BY DAVID HAWORTH, in Brussels
A RADICAL change in the fishing year political calendar is being planned by the European Commission, which hopes to introduce a new system in 2007, Fisheries Commissioner Dr Joe Borg told Fishing News last week.

Speaking in an exclusive and wide-ranging interview, he expressed impatience with the traditional timing of the fishing quota-setting schedule, which annually inflicts an unnecessary crisis management on both the sector and governments alike before every Christmas.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Investment Bank (EIB) is planning to make large low interest loans to two British utilities, to fund major capital works schemes. In Northern Ireland, the publicly-owned European Union (EU) bank wants to lend the province’s Water Service up to GBPounds 88 million to help improve the quality, quantity and security of its treated water supplies to 781,000 customers, ensuring compliance with the EU drinking water directive.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE UNITED Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) has helped broker a deal with seven Balkans countries involving them reducing the environmental damage caused by their mining industries. Welcoming the agreement, UNEP highlighted the potential problems caused by mining for zinc, cadmium, copper, bauxite, silver and gold in Albania, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Macedonia, Serbia & Montenegro, and (effectively independent) Kosovo.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
AT least 12.3 million people are trapped in forced labour around the world, says the International Labour Organisation (ILO), with the overwhelming majority being in Asia. A new report said 9.5 million forced labourers were in Asia; 1.3 million in Latin America and the Caribbean; 660,000 in sub-Saharan Africa; 260,000 in the Middle East and North Africa; 360,000 in industrialised countries; and 210,000 in ‘transition’ countries, for instance in eastern Europe.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE MEMBER states of the Mercosur trade bloc in South America have agreed to harmonise their authorisation and registration procedures for cosmetic, perfume and personal hygiene products companies. The aim of Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay and Paraguay is to remove restrictions preventing their trade in these products.…