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BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE INTERNATIONAL Primate Protection League has welcomed CITES secretary general Willem Wijnstekers’s call for prosecutions over the illegal sale of four young wild gorillas from Nigeria to Malaysia, via South Africa. League chairwoman Shirley McGreal told BBC Wildlife the intervention made court action “more likely,” although she has criticised the case’s handling.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THERE has been a lot of talk about water in international meetings and organisations this year. Report after report has spelt out that we are all using too much water and if reforms do not make systems more sustainable, then a thirsty future beckons.…

BY PHILIP FINE

AN ASSUMPTION has been made by many in the past few months in the international food industry: the unveiling of so many new low-calorie and low-fat alternative food items must have something to do with obesity-related litigation lurking in the US.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A WORLD Health Organisation (WHO) agency has concluded that chewing betel quid causes cancer, whether or not tobacco is included in the ‘pan’ mix especially popular with ethnic south Asians. It came to the same conclusion regarding another popular chewing ingredient, the areca nut.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE INTERNATIONAL Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) is predicting that the world’s air industry will emerge from its September 11 inspired doldrums next year. The UN agency’s forecasts say that following 2001’s decline in business and two years of stagnation, traffic should rebound with 4.4 per cent growth in 2004 and 6.3 per cent in 2005.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
MOVES by the European Commission to extend anti-dumping duties on imports into the European Union (EU) of polyester textured filament yarn (PTY) from Taiwan, Indonesia, Thailand and Malaysia have been abandoned. This follows a note from (CIRFS) the International Rayon and Synthetic Fibres Committee that it was formally withdrawing a request for expiry reviews of the anti-dumping measures that could have led to their extension.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
*A south-south project – backed by World Bank Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA) will raise Burundi’s teledensity ratio above one per cent. It is guaranteeing Mauritius Telecom Ltd’s US$1.01 million investment in Burundi’s Africell GSM mobile network.

*An emerging international market in hosting regional and international headquarters of transnational corporations benefits developing countries, says the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD); 829 HQs were established or relocated January 2002 to March 2003, nearly a quarter in developing countries.…

BY SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYAKE
THE INCREASED international availability of cashews and a consequent price slump reduced Indian exports by more than INDRupees 500 million (US$10.9 million) this year. Total exports of the nut April-June 2003 were 21,192 tonnes, compared with 23,770 tonnes the same period in 2002.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
HONG Kong is free of the chicken flu that devastated its poultry industry last year, say Office International des Epizooties documents. Only five outbreaks of avian influenza virus strain H5N1 were detected in Hong Kong during December 2002 and this January and no further cases have been detected since January 31.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A WORLD Health Organisation (WHO) agency has concluded that chewing betel quid causes oral cancer, whether or not tobacco is included in ‘pan’ mixes especially popular with ethnic south Asians. The problem is of particular concern in the UK, which imports more betel than any country outside of Asia, (imports have doubled since the early 80’s).…