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BY SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYAKA
A NEW Delhi retailer has launched what it says is India’s first international perfumery gallery, devoting a whole floor of a store to scents from 40 designer brands. The Indian capital’s Kunchals is now selling lines from Gucci, Elizabeth Arden, Nina Ricci, Christian Dior, Escada, Cartier, Trussardi, Boss, La Praire, Benetton, Dunhill, Mont Blanc, Azzaro, Ferrari, Kenzo, Salvador Dali, Rochas, Lacoste, Nikos, Carlina Herrara, among others.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE INTERNATIONAL Chamber of Commerce (ICC) has advised companies to implement stricter internal controls following the recent publication of the Ernst & Young and KPMG studies indicating that staff fraud grew substantially in 2002. “These studies underscore the need for corporations to be aware of fraud risks not only externally, but internally as well”, said Peter Lowe, assistant director of the chamber’s Commercial Crime Services department.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE INTERNATIONAL Office of Zoonoses, the world animal health institution, has reported tests confirming an outbreak of avian influenza subtype H7 in two Connecticut, USA, chicken farms, threatening the health of 2.3 million birds. State authorities are working with the US Department of Agriculture regarding local quarantine restrictions and movement controls.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE WORLD Bank’s International Finance Corporation (IFC) has announced it will invest up to US$3 million in expanding a textile industry joint venture in Tajikstan, the poorest former Soviet republic. The money will be sunk into Tajik-Italian-American garment company Javoni, the largest foreign-local textile joint venture in the country; its local partner is part state owned Abreshim SA, the largest textile company in Tajikstan and it is majority owned by international garment company Carrera Group.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
WITH international financial institutions being firmly in the mainstream of the world financial system, they can no more ignore the presence of money-laundering than they can that of poverty or hunger. We are talking here of global aid and development agencies like the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund and the regional development banks.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
AN INTERNATIONAL initiative has been launched that will boost the quality of processed fish products from developing countries, to ease the health and safety difficulties that they encounter when exporting to richer countries. This Aquatic Food Product Initiative (AFPI) has set up an interactive Internet portal to supply the latest fish product safety information to boost training and best practice.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
IMPROVEMENTS to Afghanistan’s air traffic control systems are to be made with a US$19.3 million World Bank credit. It said that “deterioration of air traffic control equipment and a shortage of qualified operators has reduced the safety and availability of flights, Afghanistan’s most practical means for long-range domestic as well as international travel.”…

BY JONATHAN THOMSON, in Newcastle, England, MATTHEW BRACE, in Brisbane and RICHARD HURST, in Johannesburg
ASK a human to find a needle in a haystack and they would probably spend five minutes at the most sifting through the stalks, then get bored and walk away.…

BY MARK ROWE
IT is only four letters long but for a little word AFTA is having a big impact on the Malaysian tobacco industry. AFTA, the impending free trade block for south-east Asia, is forcing the Malaysian tobacco industry, widely regarded as having the most sophisticated (and expensive) leaf production and manufacturing infrastructure in the region, to radically overhaul the way it goes about its business.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A BAND of pirates that hijacked a ship carrying aluminium ingots off Indonesia in 1999 has been convicted and jailed by an Indian court. The decision has been welcomed by the International Chamber of Commerce as a welcome and rare example of a country prosecuting piracy in international waters.…