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BY LUCY JONES

CONTROVERSIAL and widely banned, gambling nonetheless remains a highly lucrative industry in the US. As such, it is a target for high tech commercial criminals. Lucy Jones reports from Dallas, Texas.

AMERICA’S top seven gaming destinations each took in excess of US$1 billion in 2007, with the Las Vegas Strip posting revenue of $6.75 billion, according to the Innovation Group.…

BY WILLIAM BARNES

A WOMAN brushes past palm fronds into the pastel lights of a busy Bangkok salon. At the counter she turns what looks to be a flawless, ivory face towards a woman in a vaguely medical uniform: "Aiyee! I am getting so old.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE COST of producing electricity from solar cells will become as cheap as using fossil fuels by 2015, according to a new American study. Research company Clean Edge and sustainability campaigners Co-op America predict improved technology will shrink solar energy costs from today’s US$6 per peak watt to just US$1.50 in 2025.…

BY ALAN OSBORN

COSMETICS manufacturers thinking about adding nutraceuticals to their preparations as a new ploy to raise market share ought to know that the European Union (EU) keeps a special watch on these additives and while present regulations should not be all that worrying, the net is being slowly tightened.…

BY JULIAN RYALL, JAMES BURNS, RAGHAVENDRA VERMA and PHILIPPA JONES

"IT is better to be beautiful than to be good," wrote Oscar Wilde in ‘The Picture of Dorian Gray’. Many cosmetics and personal care companies worldwide may still believe this statement to be true, but being, or at least claiming to be, "good" has become an essential part of the sector’s public image.…

BY ALAN OSBORN

The International Finance Corporation, an affiliate of the World Bank specialising in the private sector, is to take a 10% equity stake in Tecnoquímicas, a Colombia-based pharmaceutical manufacturing and distribution firm. IFC’s investment of US$25 million will support the expansion of the company’s operations in the Andean region and Central America.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE INTERNATIONAL Finance Corporation (IFC), of the World Bank, will lend Latin America’s first major LNG export project US$300 million. International consortium Peru LNG will use the money to build a liquefaction plant and a marine loading terminal on Peru’s central coast, plus a 408-kilometre pipeline connect to an existing network east of the Andes.…

BY JAMES BURNS

REYNOLDS American Inc has announced the appointment of Luc Jobin and Holly K. Koeppel to its board of directors. Both will serve on the board’s audit and finance committee.

The parent company of the R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company, Conwood Company, LLC, Santa Fe Natural Tobacco Company, and R.J.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

A EUROPEAN Union (EU) and Balkans ministerial council has approved the rules of a dispute settlement mechanism for countries participating within the southeast Europe Energy Community. This links Balkans’ gas (and electricity) regulation with that of EU member states and ensures EU energy legislation is adopted in participating countries.…

BY JAMES FULLER

MANY nations have has to review their anti-terrorist financing systems and laws since the September 11 attacks in America, with its implications stretching around the world, even to regions usually untouched by political terror, such as the Caribbean.…