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BY KEITH NUTHALL
SPECIAL training programmes are being launched by the World Bank’s International Finance Corporation (IFC) to spread Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point (HACCP) procedures in Bangladesh’s food manufacturing sector. These formal food health check systems are not widespread in many developing countries, lessening the appeal of their food exports to high value rich county markets.…

BY GAVIN BLAIR, in Tokyo
As the world’s third biggest energy consumer after the United States and China, Japan has long been concerned with its lack of self-sufficiency in power generation. The low level of food self-sufficiency (40%), which has always been something of a national obsession, looks positively healthy when compared to the 16% level for energy.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE MANAGING director of Unilever has warned of a looming clash over raw material supplies between a food industry serving a growing global population and a biofuel sector fighting global warming.

Guenther Buck told a European Parliament green group hearing: “Land availability for both food and fuel is very questionable.”…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

WITH the accession of Cardinal Josef Ratzinger to the papal throne in 2005, some Vatican watchers have predicted a tightening of administrative procedures in the world’s smallest sovereign state. The Vatican clearly has a global punch through the Roman Catholic Church, and this has raised concerns about the state’s control of its banks amongst its detractors.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
EUROPEAN Union (EU) transport Commissioner Jacques Barrot has acted to shore up the shaky future of EU global positioning satellite network Galileo, which has been designed to offer hauliers reliable high-tech navigation services from 2010. Squabbles amongst the consortium chosen to build Galileo’s network and satellites over allocation of work have been highlighted in a report to the EU Council of Ministers from Barrot, who voiced “concern” over “the status of concession negotiations.”…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has presented Inventors of the Year 2007 awards to two pharmaceutical research teams, for developing new and successful medicines with a global impact. Professor Marc Feldmann, of Britain’s Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology, Imperial College, London, received a lifetime achievement award for identifying the role of cytokines in the treatment of autoimmune disorders such as rheumatoid arthritis and finding a treatment, “which has helped millions of people all over the world”, said a Brussels statement.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE INTERNATIONAL Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) has agreed guidance for its 189 member states on incorporating international aviation pollution into global warming emissions trading schemes. They agreed that cutting aviation emissions would not count towards meeting Kyoto Protocol targets, however.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE UNITED States’ diplomatic service is surely the largest and best resourced international network of experts in the world, and this is born out by the depth of the narcotics strategy report – or INCSR to use its acronym.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE INTERNATIONAL Telecommunication Union (ITU) has launched a ‘focus group on identity management’, uniting software developers and vendors, standards forums, manufacturers, telecommunications companies and researchers in developing interoperable fraud-proof systems. The aim is a common identity management system recognised by computer, Internet and telecoms systems that “reduce the need for multiple user names and passwords…while maintaining privacy of personal information”, said an ITU note.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
PHILIP Morris International (PMI) has released a detailed intelligence dossier on cigarette and other tobacco product counterfeiting, in a bid to encourage the international cooperation it deems necessary to effectively fight this crime. The report highlights 17 countries around the world where it thinks cigarette counterfeiting is a particular problem and where the cigarette company has specific advice: Latvia, the Czech Republic, Ukraine, Russia, Thailand, Vietnam, the Philippines, Malaysia, Indonesia, China, Egypt, Belize, Panama, Uruguay, Paraguay, Brazil and Ghana.…