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Keith Nuthall
A REPORT published at the ongoing meeting of the United Nations Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice has asked delegates to consider whether the world should be protected by a global cybercrime convention.

Its aim would be to outlaw Internet offences in every UN member country, denying hackers and virus designers legal safe havens.…

Keith Nuthall
DEVELOPING countries that export textiles and clothing, have rejectred calls by their rich trading partners, that they should open their domestic markets in return for further import concessions being offered by developed countries.

Meeting in Guatemala, the International Textiles and Clothing Bureau’s Council of Representatives “categorically rejected” bids by the European Union and the United States “to demand additional market access concessions from developing countries as a condition to fully comply with their obligations under the Agreement on Textiles and Clothing of the World Trade Organization.”…

BY KATE REW
THE FIRST electric bus to be powered by a zero-emission zinc-air battery is to start a series of test track trials in the United States, to show it can cope with the rigours of city and suburban driving.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A REPORT published at the ongoing meeting of the United Nations Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice has proposed a series of short term measures that can be taken to strengthen international efforts to fight IT-related and cybercrime.…

KEITH NUTHALL
ITALIAN textile houses have welcomed US Congress’ adoption of reforms to America’s rules of origin for textile products, which they claimed discriminated against European Union exports and broke World Trade Organisation rules.

When implementing the Uruguay Round GATT agreement, the United States had passed a law that insisted that cotton, silk and man-made fibres fabrics entering the EU at loom state to be dyed and printed, no longer qualified as EU products when they were exported.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE WORLD Health Organisation has claimed that national governments have a duty under the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, to introduce tough anti-smoking regulations, that would hinder tobacco companies from marketing product to young people and prevent them from being exposed to passive smoking.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
THE EUROPEAN Union has voiced “disappointment and concern” at a decision by the US Department of Commerce to impose provisional countervailing duties on imports of low enriched uranium from the EU.

European Commission officials said that the case concerned uranium that had been processed for use in electricity generation.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE UNITED Nations’ Food and Agricultural Organisation, (FAO), has handed over 290 new fishing boats, canoes and nets to Mozambican fishermen, whose equipment was destroyed when flooding and a cyclone struck the country last year.

Its donation – funded by the Italian government – was the final stage of an FAO rehabilitation project for Inhambane, Sofala and Gaza Provinces.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
A CANADIAN government advisory group has called for increased numbers of seals to be hunted, to help recovering Atlantic fish stocks, which are estimated to be at 10 per cent of what they were 20 years ago.

The Fisheries Resource Conservation Council (FRCC) said that the seal population has over-expanded and that its numbers must be controlled.…

BY KATE REW
THE UNITED States and four Asia-Pacific countries have helped pioneer a groundbreaking multilateral agreement, which follows the “Open Skies” principles previously used in bilateral agreements struck by Washington.

US Transportation Secretary Norman Mineta last week signed the agreement with senior transportation officials from Singapore, Brunei, New Zealand and Chile, which will open up pan-Pacific air markets.…