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CHINA STICKS WITH NUCLEAR AFTER JAOAN DISASTER, BUT EXPECT SHORT TERM REACTOR APPROVAL DELAYS
BY MARK GODFREY
THE HEADLINES said it all. Chinese newspapers have recently been heavy with editorials and op-ed pieces largely favourable to nuclear power: among them ‘This Is Not the End of Nuke Power’ a half-page op-ed in the China Daily, the preferred conduit of China’s official thinking to foreign diplomats and executives.…
FIRST WORLD ENVIRONMENTAL CONTROVERSIES HARM THIRD WORLD HEALTH
BY KATHERINE DUNN
WELL-MEANING environmental health campaigners can kill innocent victims through unintended consequences of their positions. Whether it is opposing the use of malaria killing insecticide DDT or opposing the use of vaccines, such campaigns open environmentalists to criticism because they are opposing the use of proven disease control methods.…
TRADE BENEFITS LOOM FOR TOBACCO SECTOR IF WORLD TRADE ORGANISATION GRASPS DOHA NETTLE
BY KEITH NUTHALL
SIGNIFICANT benefits to tobacco and tobacco product companies will present themselves if a deal on the long-running Doha Development Round is clinched next year at the World Trade Organisation (WTO). And some diplomats at the WTO’s base in Geneva are asking if agreement is not reached next year, whether the current negotiations will be scrapped.…
CASE LAW CLARIFIES AML STATUTES WORLDWIDE
BY ALAN OSBORN, KEITH NUTHALL
THE PASSAGE of legislation by parliaments and assemblies worldwide has been the usual route by which anti-money laundering legislation becomes law in most jurisdictions. But to some degree, this is because such laws are relatively new and so have yet to face many legal challenges in court.…
SOUTHERN AFRICAN KNITTING INDUSTRY STRUGGLES - ALTHOUGH MAURITIUS IS BRIGHT SPOT
BY ALISON MOODIE
THE SOUTHERN African knitwear industry has taken a serious knock over the past decade. Tough Chinese competition, a global recession and as regards the regional powerhouse South Africa – an overvalued currency – these are just some of its problems.…
AFRICAN CUSTOMS MAKES SIGNIFICANT IMPROVEMENTS
BY BILL CORCORAN and ALAN OSBORN
IT is now some five years since a group of London-based multinationals, among them British American Tobacco (BAT), set up a group aimed at improving the conditions for doing business with and through Africa – named the Business Action for Improving Customs Administration in Africa (BAFICAA) initiative.…
KILLER FISH DISEASE
BY KEITH NUTHALL
A KILLER disease is decimating fish stocks in the Zambezi river valley, threatening rural livelihoods in Angola, Botswana, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Zambia and Zimbabwe, the UN Food & Agriculture Organisation (FAO) has warned. Its ‘global information and early warning system’ (GIEWS) says the disease ‘epizootic ulcerative syndrome’ (EUS) (caused by a fungus ‘aphanomyces invadans’ with "a high rate of mortality") is spreading through the Zambesi system.…
PERSONAL CARE PRODUCT INDUSTRY FIGHTS TO PRESERVE ITS REPUTATION AGAINST COUNTERFEITERS AND PIRATES
BY KEITH NUTHALL, JULIAN RYALL, in Tokyo, EMMA JACKSON and LEAH GERMAIN
TIME was when counterfeit personal care products were commonly crude fake perfumes pedalled in markets and workplaces during the Christmas and other festive periods to bargain hunters who knew they were buying rubbish.…
INTRODUCTION - RENEWABLE ENERGIES FORGE AHEAD - BUT FROM A LOW BASE
BY KEITH NUTHALL, LEAH GERMAIN and MONICA DOBIE
MAYBE the best sign that renewable energies have hit the mainstream is that they now have their very own international organisation: the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA). Launched in Bonn, Germany, this January, with the support of 76 countries, including its host nation, Spain, Italy, France and Sweden, the roster of signatory nations has since been swollen by India and Belarus.…
NOVEL TOBACCO CURING TECHNOLOGY COULD BE SAVIOUR FOR MALAWI FLUE-CURED LEAF SECTOR
BY BILL CORCORAN, in Lilongwe, Malawi
THE WIDESPREAD implementation of new technological developments in Malawi’s flue-cured tobacco process could enable local producers to dramatically increase their output and its quality, according to industry experts.
Results from tests run during Malawi’s latest tobacco curing season using a new method of heating have shown a dramatic improvement in energy efficiency over standard methods, and an improved quality of the end product compared to traditionally cured tobacco.…