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BY MARK ROWE
THE FIRST meeting of the world’s five largest sugar exporters has agreed to co-ordinate efforts to boost prices in the commodity’s international market from current record lows. Meeting in Bangkok, representatives of Thailand, Australia, Brazil, South Africa and Guatemala agreed to speed up co-operation and seek to lift world prices without raising domestic retail prices.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
INDIA’S Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has seized 45 shahtoosh shawls and two shirts, acting on information from the Wildlife Protection Society of India. The items were discovered in Delhi and included one seven metre length of uncut shahtoosh fabric.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
EUROPEAN countries dominate a list of states most dependent on nuclear power, according to figures released by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). Lithuania is the country consuming most nuclear power, with 80 per cent of its energy supplies coming from nuclear reactors, with France second at 78 per cent and Slovakia third at 65.4 per cent.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE FINANCIAL Action Task Force (FATF), of the OECD (Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development), has significantly toughened its 40 Recommendations on fighting money laundering that countries must comply with to avoid being blacklisted by the FATF. The changes are particularly significant, given that the OECD body has now teamed up with the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund in its efforts to fight the international flow of dirty money; a blacklisting could henceforth cost erring countries in grants and loans.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE WORLD Bank is lending Romania a Euro 74.3 million package to help it develop a fully-functioning wholesale electricity market and boost the reliability of its transmission systems. Concerned that a lack of reliability of power supplies could hinder economic growth, especially in the capital Bucharest and in Transylvania, the bank wants to “attract and sustain private sector participation in the power sector.”…

KEITH NUTHALL
INNOVATION from European Union-funded research has continued to offer improvements to the way that EU water utilities work. For instance, the European Commission-funded MicroChem initiative has developed miniaturised laboratory-on-a-chip systems suitable for rapid field testing of water streams. They examine water in tiny pictolitre quantities, flowing through microbore channels produced by photolithographic etching.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union will call at the oncoming World Radiocommunications Conference, being staged by the International Telecommunication Union at Geneva, (June 9 to July 4), for the earmarking of spectrum promoting advanced mobile telephony and broadband Internet services.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
AN INTERNATIONAL institution best known for promoting free market solutions for the world’s economic ills has issued a surprising call for governments to promote environmental good practice by relying more on compulsory regulation and less on voluntary guidance.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
EUROPEAN Union trade Commissioner Pascal Lamy has called on World Trade Organisation member countries to look beyond the oncoming 2005 abolition of textile trade quotas, and start discussing the elimination and lowering of tariffs and other non-tariff barriers.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
EUROPEAN countries dominate a list of states most dependent on nuclear power, according to figures released by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). Lithuania is the country consuming most nuclear power, with 80 per cent of its energy supplies coming from nuclear reactors, with France second at 78 per cent and Slovakia third at 65.4 per cent.…