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BY DAVID HAWORTH, in Taipei

TAIWAN’S leading expert on transmissible diseases, Dr. Mei-Shang Ho, says that she is reasonably confident that the national surveillance system she helped design “will be able to catch anything which comes along” regarding threats to the island’s current bird flu status, despite being in the region where the disease is most common.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

SOAP supplies companies paid together hundreds-of-thousands of dollars in kickbacks to the toppled Saddam regime, the Independent Inquiry Committee into the UN Iraq Oil for Food programme scandal has claimed. There were 101 (mostly toilet) soap suppliers, from countries largely from the Middle East and east Asia, named in a report paying Iraq to secure humanitarian supply contracts.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) Council of Ministers has approved imposing definitive anti-dumping duties on imports of certain stainless steel fasteners and associated parts (bolts, nuts, etc) from Taiwan (23.6%), China (27.4%), Indonesia (24.6%), Thailand (14.6%) and Vietnam (7.7%), with lower duties for some companies cooperating with a European Commission inquiry into the problem.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

SOAP supplies companies paid together hundreds-of-thousands of dollars in kickbacks to the toppled Saddam regime, the Independent Inquiry Committee into the UN Iraq Oil for Food programme scandal has claimed. There were 101 (mostly toilet) soap suppliers, from countries largely from the Middle East and east Asia, named in a report paying Iraq to secure humanitarian supply contracts.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has proposed imposing definitive anti-dumping duties on imports of certain stainless steel fasteners and associated parts from Taiwan (23.6%), China (27.4%), Indonesia (24.6%), Thailand (14.6%) and Vietnam (7.7%). Stainless steel products covered are wood screws, self-tapping screws, screws and bolts without heads of stainless steel, slotted and cross-recessed screws, hexagon socket head screws and hexagon bolts.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
EXPORTS in Hong Kong have warned that the human H5N1 strain of avian flu detected in northern Vietnam this year has proved resistant to Tamiflu, the commercial brand of oseltamivir, the powerful antiviral drug considered the best chance of fighting the disease, especially if human-to-human transmission arose.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE RISK of bird flu entering the European Union (EU) is becoming increasingly likely, with the European Commission banning imports of live birds and untreated feathers from Turkey, after a suspected outbreak in this country straddling Europe and Asia.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
LONDON-based oil and gas exploration and production company SOCO International will be lent up to US$45 million by the World Bank’s International Finance Corporation (IFC) to help finance its investments in emerging markets, particularly Vietnam and Yemen. SOCO wants to help stem Yemen’s declining oil production, and help Vietnam secure more market-based foreign direct investment.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE UNITED Nations Food & Agriculture Organisation (FAO) has warned major international donors have given only 20% of the money needed to control bird flu in poultry and animals before the epidemic spreads again this winter. The FAO wants mass vaccination campaigns in east Asian countries such as Indonesia and Vietnam, where the disease is most entrenched and from where a global epidemic is most likely to spring.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) has warned major international donors have given only 20% of the money needed to control bird flu in poultry and animals before the epidemic spreads again this winter. The FAO wants mass vaccination campaigns in countries such as Indonesia and Vietnam.…