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BY MONICA DOBIE, ALAN OSBORN and MARK ROWE
SENDING employees abroad or setting up overseas branches always take some preparation and maybe the most important job is taking care of workers’ health needs. Not only must local employment laws be followed, but companies must ensure that they can manage the alien health risks faced abroad.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A EUROPEAN Commission-funded research project is developing an integrated sales, production and storage system for small-and-medium sized timber businesses, which have difficulty serving a number of niche markets simultaneously. The IN-TIME project involves eight companies covering the whole timber supply chain, coordinated by UK software design house MJC2.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
MONACO is all about money. A glamorous speck of high-rises looming above the French Riviera, it is famous for wealthy glamour, tax exiles, racing-cars and gambling. Given this cocktail, it is hardly surprising that this, Europe’s second smallest country by geography, has attracted allegations that it has been the site of money laundering.…

BY EDWARD PETERS
DEPENDING on who you ask, Taiwan is either a renegade province or to all intents and purposes an independent nation, albeit one that currently lacks full international recognition. To suggest that it could be a fully functioning country in its own right to anyone in Beijing – the capital of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) – is tantamount to treason.…

BY PHILIP FINE

AT LEAST no one in today’s America has to contend with Carry Nation. She was the late-19th century Kansas reformer who crusaded against the sale and consumption of alcohol. Known as the original saloon smasher, she would burst into bars and cause as much damage as she could to drinking establishments.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
A SCIENTIST from the Agricultural Research Service in the US has developed a machine that automatically monitors waste production during ginning through video cameras that can distinguish it from cotton. The system, to be sold commercially, films 50 square feet of cotton per minute and advises growers about waste levels in real time, indicating to what extent cotton should be cleaned during ginning.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
A SCIENTIST from the Agricultural Research Service in the US has developed a machine that automatically monitors waste production during ginning through video cameras that can distinguish it from cotton. The system, to be sold commercially, films 50 square feet of cotton per minute and advises growers about waste levels in real time, indicating to what extent cotton should be cleaned during ginning.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
HUNDREDS of thousands of American youths too young to legally drink are logging on to websites advertising alcohol brands for entertainment purposes despite measures taken from companies to restrict access to minors, according to a recently released study.…

BY PHILIP FINE

SCIENTISTS at the US Agricultural Research Service (ARS) are trying to breed a more disease resistant honey bee by using recently created bee genomic data. One of the long-term goals of the project is to characterise the specific genes that are key in the honey bee immune response system, then use data from these genes to improve both bee breeding and management.…

BY PHILIP FINE

WHILE genetic modification (GM) seems to have scored a public relations disaster regarding food crops, an attempt to garner some praise is being made in the emerging science of GM insects. Scientists hope to modify insects to control noxious weeds and insect pests, reducing the use of pesticides on agricultural, pasture and horticultural lands.…