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BY MATTHEW BRACE
WITH Australia sharing the front-line in President Bush’s war against terrorism with Britain and the USA, and also having witnessed its citizens dying in last year’s Bali nightclub terror attack, it is maybe not surprising that it has been tightening its money laundering legislation, especially as regards terrorists.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
FRANCE’S Suez water company and the United Nations Education, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) have launched a joint drinking water improvements programme that will provide around Euro 300,000 in its first three years and will initially concentrate on the Volga-Caspian region.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
JAPANESE government officials have admitted that there have been shortcomings in the measurement of plutonium in high active liquid waste-storage tanks at Japan’s Tokai Reprocessing Plant, saying that the Japan Nuclear Cycle Development Institute is now correcting the amount of plutonium declared to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).…

BY ALAN OSBORN
AFTER four years of negotiation a binding international tobacco control treaty has been agreed by the 171 member states of the World Health Organisation. The final, and acrimonious, round of talks on a text for the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) ended on February 28.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
EUROPOL has signed an operational agreement with the United States which will improve cooperation between the EU police agency and the various US law enforcement authorities. The deal promotes the exchange of personal data, an agreement that has been approved by the Joint Supervisory Body, the independent authority monitoring and controlling the use of such information by Europol.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
AN INTERNET tool for analysing radionuclides and their radiation has been launched by the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre and international science publishing company Springer-Verlag. ‘Http://www.nuclides.net/’ is, said a JRC note, “a sequence of computer applications, which run over the Internet on a web server, supported by a powerful user-friendly interface.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union is putting itself in a position to reap the economic rewards of developing renewable energy technologies ahead of the United States, an American Association for the Advancement of Science annual meeting has been told. “Europe has made a major commitment to renewable energy and is leading the United States in deploying it,” said Allan Hoffman, a renewables specialist and senior advisor to Winrock International’s Clean Energy Group.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
THE INTERNATIONAL Labour Organisation (ILO) has highlighted ways in which tobacco companies worldwide ease the pain caused to its workers when they lose their jobs through global downsizing. A recent ILO report, called Employment Trends in the Tobacco Sector: Challenges and Prospects analyses how the use of better technology and cheaper labour in developing countries has resulted in the loss of jobs in richer countries, despite increases in production.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
ROMANIA’S Ministry of Public Works, Transports and Housing has launched a seaworthiness review of all Romanian flagged ships, which it hopes will allow it to provisionally close its European Union accession negotiations regarding transport policy. The inquiry was sparked by the Prestige disaster off Spain and the resulting release of a blacklist by the European Commission of ships that had visited European Union ports with safety defects.…

BY EDWARD PETERS
FOR a snapshot of the current state of the Chinese tobacco industry, casual observers need go no further than the massive adverts blanketing some of the main highways in Shanghai, which is generally considered to be the most go-ahead city in the People’s Republic (PRC).…