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BY DINAH GARDNER

SINGAPORE may rank highly on global anti-corruption ratings league tables but it has been coming under considerable fire recently for its strict bank secrecy laws. Last October, in the wake of the brutal crackdown on protests in Myanmar, the island state was accused of being a money laundering hub for top junta officials.…

By Keith Nuthall

The long-sidelined services portion of the World Trade Organisation’s (WTO) Doha Development Round is to get a push, reawakening hopes that access to foreign higher education markets could improve in global trade deal maybe coming this year.

WTO director general Pascal Lamy has launched "horizontal talks" at the trade body, which will allow negotiators to discuss the liberalisation of global services markets, food, industrial goods and other issues simultaneously.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE HOST country of the oncoming Codex Alimentarius committee on food labelling will resist plans to draft global guidelines saying food product labelling should inform consumers of the amounts of fruits, vegetables, whole grains and sugars within processed foods.…

By Keith Nuthall and Monica Dobie

Universities and colleges are constantly working with business and industry to undertake commercially valuable research. University World News here again features a selection of these cutting edge developments in its business pages.

*The University of Latvia’s Institute of Polymer Mechanics Eureka has helped create construction bricks with domestic waste polymers usually considered too varied or dirty to be recycled.…

By Monica Dobie

European university scientists have designed a virtual reality system that allows users to visit and walk around a digitised environment, helping the tourist, town planning, architectural and medical sectors. As a test, their ‘CyberCarpet’ system has allowed users to visit the Roman Empire Italian town of Pompeii and experience it before it was decimated by Vesuvius in 79AD.…

By Keith Nuthall

Britain’s Open University has drawn on international commercial talent to advise its managers on how to develop its business school. The country’s first virtual higher education institution, which pioneered the use of televised lectures and correspondence courses, is hoping a panel of experts will highlight opportunities for growth that would otherwise be missed.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) is to increase money available for emergency food aid within its European Development Funds budget from Euro 650 million to Euro 1.2 billion following food riots in Africa. Unrest has wracked Egypt this week over basic food prices doubling in 12 months.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

A NEW governing body has been approved for European Union (EU) global positioning satellite system Galileo. The Galileo Inter-Institutional Panel (GIP) will have three representatives from the EU Council of Ministers, and the European Parliament; one from the European Commission.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE FOOD and drink manufacturing industries could get a big shot in the arm this year, if the World Trade Organisation’s (WTO) seven-year-old Doha Development Round reaches a successful conclusion, as planned. If it does, all import duties on their products traded worldwide would be significantly reduced and there is a chance many of them could be eliminated altogether.…

BY KARRYN CARTELLE

AS the world’s wild finfish and seafood stocks continue to dwindle and environmental pressure for sustainable fishing practices rises, South Korea’s fishing fleet is adjusting with the times.

South and North Korea’s combined expansive coastline spans 8,693 kilometres (South Korea’s mainland alone commands 2,413km).…