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AFRICA OIL GAS EXPLORATION RISKS FEATURE
BY STEVEN SWINDELLS, in Johannesburg
SECURITY specialists and risk assessors will be increasingly in demand within oil majors seeking to tap sub-Saharan Africa’s oil and gas riches in the next few years, experts say, with available resources and political uncertainty growing in an uneasy parallel.…
JAPAN MONEY LAUNDERING FEATURE
BY JULIAN RYALL, in Tokyo
THE HEADLINES in the Japanese press in recent months are likely to have
piqued the interest of anyone looking for a destination where ill-gotten
gains can be made to appear legitimate, let alone the concern of global
money-laundering authorities.…
JAPAN MONEY LAUNDERING FEATURE
BY JULIAN RYALL, in Tokyo
THE HEADLINES in the Japanese press in recent months are likely to have
piqued the interest of anyone looking for a destination where ill-gotten
gains can be made to appear legitimate, let alone the concern of global
money-laundering authorities.…
CHINA NUCLEAR INDUSTRY EXPANSION PLANS - POLITICAL CONCERNS
BY DAVID EIMER, in Beijing
"Build nuclear power, enrich the people", proclaim the billboards at China’s Qinshan nuclear facility in the south-eastern province of Zhejiang. Qinshan, a 120 kilometres south of Shanghai, is the centre of China’s nuclear sector and home to five of the country’s nine operational reactors.…
JAPAN SOUTH KOREA LAVER SEAWEED
BY KEITH NUTHALL
JAPAN and South Korea have struck a deal solving a long-running World Trade Organisation (WTO) dispute over Japanese restrictions on imports of South Korean laver seaweed. Seoul has argued that Japan’s import quotas of this product break Tokyo’s WTO commitments under the 1994 General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT).…
ICAO NEW AIR ROUTES - INDIA, USA, RUSSIA - SIBERIA, SOUTH KOREA
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE INTERNATIONAL Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) is considering an application for the creation of three new civil aviation routes linking the Russian far east and South Korea, crossing North Korean air space over the Sea of Japan. An ICAO meeting concluded that the “extreme high cost of fuel has elevated this to an urgent request”.…
UNDERGROUND WASTE COLLECTION SYSTEM - NETHERLANDS, SOUTH KOREA
BY KEITH NUTHALL
LITTER collection and refuse disposal can pose environmental health hazards, so surely cities and towns would be cleaner if waste was sucked underground by a futuristic sucking mechanism. Sounds like the 22nd century, but actually, Swedish firm Envac Centralsug is already offering such a service.…
DEEPSEA MINING
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE UNITED Nations’ International Seabed Authority has delayed agreement of new regulations governing how metal ore mining companies would explore and exploit deep seawaters for hauls such as polymetallic sulphide nodules and cobalt-rich crusts. These mineral resources are rich in copper, iron, zinc, silver, gold and cobalt; sulphides are found around volcanic areas and crusts on oceanic ridges.…
DEEPSEA MINING
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE UNITED Nations’ International Seabed Authority has postponed agreement of new regulations governing how mining companies would explore and exploit deep seawaters for hauls such as polymetallic sulphide nodules and cobalt-rich crusts. These mineral resources are rich in copper, iron, zinc, silver, gold and cobalt, with the sulphides being found around volcanic areas and the crusts on oceanic ridges.…
SBS DUTIES
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.…