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EUROPEAN RESEARCH AREA
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE NETHERLANDS Shipbuilding Industry Association (VNSI) has welcomed the oncoming agreement of the Euro 16.2 billion EU Sixth Framework Programme for research as giving the European industry a chance to compete effectively against far East suppliers, such as those from South Korea.…
COCONUTS
BY SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYAKA
INDONESIA has emerged as a major producer of desiccated coconut during the last three years, and is now threatening Sri Lanka’s position in the world market, the chairman of the island’s desiccated coconut millers association has claimed.…
AIDS/TB/HIV
BY KEITH NUTHALL
FORMAL proposals have been released by the European Commission for a programme to help spread medicines fighting HIV/AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis in developing countries. The plans include budget lines of Euro 26.1 million, covering aid from January 2003 to December 2006.…
FRAMEWORK PROGRAMME
BY KEITH NUTHALL
A LETTER signed by 108 scientists and researchers has been sent to the European Commission, calling for a greater priority to be given to biomedical studies in the oncoming Euro 16.2 billion Sixth Framework Programme for research. The experts, from the EU, the USA, Switzerland, Bulgaria, Poland, the Ukraine and Israel, claimed that although the preceding fourth and fifth programmes earmarked significant sums of money for their subject, the new scheme “offers little or nothing for them.”…
CLEAN OCEANS GREEN WATCH
BY MATTHEW BRACE
THE SEAS around Australia are among the cleanest in the world, partly thanks to the ingenuity of local scientists, who are pioneering two projects to ensure local waters remain healthy, while assisting other more stressed ocean regions.
One involves an electronic mapping system developed by the Australian Marine Safety Authority (AMSA), which is being used to predict the effects of dangerous chemicals in the ocean.…
EIB - DENMARK/WIND POWER
KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Investment Bank has lent Euro 190 million to Danish electricity supplier and distributor Eltra, money that will be especially targeted on boosting renewable energy production and consumption in this environment-friendly country.
Eltra is a non-profit co-operative society wholly owned by 47 municipal and consumer-owned electricity distribution companies in Denmark.…
SCHIZOPHRENIA RESEARCH
BY MATTHEW BRACE
SCIENTISTS from the Queensland Centre for Schizophrenia Research in Australia claim to have made a crucial step forward in the study of schizophrenia, which could help the pharmaceutical industry develop new vitamin D enriched drugs to treat the condition.…
ONTARIO CROP
BY MONICA DOBIE
ONTARIO’S tobacco auctions have been wrapped up for the 2001 crop, which has proved to be a successful year for growers in the key Canadian province, being blessed with a very dry summer.
A tally of 117,094,080 pounds of tobacco was sold at an average price of CAN$1.79 per pound, up two cents from last year.…
ALBANIA CREDIT
KEITH NUTHALL
THE WORLD Bank has approved a US$5.6 million credit to fund a Pilot Fishery Development Project, to boost the development of fish farming in Albania, one of Europe’s poorest countries. The scheme also aims at improving the country’s wild fishery sector.…
MERRILL LYNCH
BY PHILIP FINE
IN the wake of the Enron scandal, Merrill Lynch has announced a plan to more accurately evaluate a company’s quality of earnings. Merrill’s director of equity research, Deepak Raj, told analysts in a memo they should be employing measures that go beyond pro forma earnings and consider the Financial Accounting Standards Board’s guidelines when formulating earnings estimates and ratings opinions.…