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BY ALAN OSBORN
INSURERS should have a much clearer idea of the risks involved in extending cover to the areas hit by the tsunami at the end of last year following agreement by 23 Indian Ocean nations to share data and set up seven regional warning centres.…

BY MATTHEW BRACE
FIGHTING money laundering is about getting your hands dirty. The Financial Action Task Force (FATF) may pronounce global standards that it would like jurisdictions to follow, but all governments need help, and often regional bodies are better placed to do the detailed work than more remote global organisations.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE ASSOCIATION of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) has agreed how its member governments should cooperate in the event of a major disaster, such as another Tsunami or earthquake. The international organisation, which includes such major countries as Indonesia, the Philippines and Thailand, has approved a comprehensive deal that lays down how they should mitigate disaster damage, reducing the insurer payouts in a region increasingly interested in insurance.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE THREE key international organisations fighting bird flu have agreed a global strategy preventing the disease spreading worldwide and jumping species to humans. The UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), the World Health Organisation (WHO) and the Office International des Épizooties (OIE) – the animal health organisation – approved the plan at a conference in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE KEY international organisations fighting bird flu have agreed a global strategy preventing the disease spreading worldwide and jumping species to humans. The UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), the World Health Organisation (WHO) and the Office International des Épizooties (OIE) – the animal health organisation – approved the plan at a conference in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A DETAILED and comprehensive code on the packaging and labelling of vitamin and mineral food supplements is amongst the 20 new food guidelines approved this month by the ruling commission of world food standards body Codex Alimentarius.

Meeting in Malaysia, national delegates agreed rules insisting that such packaging be not only hygienic, but that it “safeguards the other qualities” of supplements.…

BY MATTHEW BRACE
TASMANIA’S non-ferrous metals industry is enjoying a welcome resurgence with strong production targets for the next five to ten years.

Miners in Australia’s island state are reluctant to call it a “metals rush” but it is the most significant set of resource finds for more than 100 years.…

BY MATTHEW BRACE
SINGAPORE’S economy is rejuvenating after the horrors of early 2004 when the threat of terrorism (both internationally and closer to home in South East Asia), and then the SARS virus hit the city state hard, shrinking demand for construction and hence the amount of money to be made by the coatings sector.…

BY MATTHEW BRACE
TASMANIA’S non-ferrous metals industry is enjoying a welcome resurgence with strong production targets for the next five to ten years.

Miners in Australia’s island state are reluctant to call it a “metals rush” but it is the most significant set of resource finds for more than 100 years.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE 2005 Yearbook of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) has warned environmental change is spreading diseases beyond their traditional range, while causing pathogens to mutate and become more deadly.

It includes a number of case studies, illustrating one message: “Loss of forests, road and dam building, the spread of cities, the clearing of natural habitats for agriculture, mining and the pollution of coastal waters are promoting conditions under which new and old pathogens can thrive”.…