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BY ALAN OSBORN
MANY professions are engaged in the war against money laundering but it seems increasingly plain that customs officers are at the very forefront of the campaign. Most crime (with some forms of terrorism a conspicuous exception) is committed mainly for financial profit and that profit has to be re-cycled if the criminals are to gain anything at all from it.…

BY ALAN OSBORN and MARK ROWE
THE LIBERALISATION of electricity and gas supplies in the European Union (EU) was finally agreed in 2003 and will come into full effect this year for business customers and in 2007 for households and all others.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE WORLD’S increasing reliance on cars is threatening efforts to combat climate change, according to a report published by the Paris-based International Energy Agency (IEA). Although its report ‘Oil Crises and Climate Challenges’ found that oil consumption has been declining since 1973 in every other industrial and service sector, soaring transport demands meant overall levels have not declined.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE INTERNATIONAL Chamber of Commerce (ICC) is assembling a crack anti-fraud team from amongst specialist legal practices worldwide, tasked with offering advice to victims of commercial deception, money laundering and cybercrime. This Fraudnet group would help victims prosecute fraudsters and recover lost property.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE OFFICE International des Épizooties (OIE), the world animal health organisation, has reported outbreaks of blue tongue disease amongst sheep in Cyprus and scrapie in Brazilian flocks. The Cypriot outbreak has hit six flocks and involved 71 cases, almost entirely amongst females.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
THE MOST fortified frontier in the world, Korea’s Demilitarized Zone, (DMZ) is being touted by the (South) Korea National Tourism Organisation as a future destination for wildlife eco-tourism. The DMZ, an area of land four kilometres wide and 250 kilometres long divides North and South Korea across the Korean Peninsula.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
DOES ‘sir’ sound that different to ‘zirh’? Maybe it depends on the accent used, but whatever, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) has ruled that these words are sufficiently contrasting to allow both to be registered as a verbal trademark.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE INTERNATIONAL Chamber of Commerce (ICC) is assembling a crack anti-fraud team from amongst specialist legal practices worldwide, tasked with offering advice to victims of commercial deception, money laundering and cybercrime. The chamber’s commercial crime department said it was now identifying and inviting suitable law firms to participate.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
THE MOST fortified frontier in the world, Korea’s Demilitarized Zone, (DMZ) is being touted by the (South) Korea National Tourism Organisation as a future destination for wildlife-based eco-tourism. The DMZ, a strip of land four kilometres wide and 250 kilometres long divides North and South Korea and is littered with countless numbers of land mines, a no-mans-land since the end of the Korean War more than 50 years ago.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) Council of Ministers has written the International Maritime Organisation’s (IMO) shipping and port security code into EU law, approving a final draft of legislation agreed by the European Parliament. The agreement of the implementation legislation comes three months ahead of the July 1 deadline for putting the code into affect.…