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STORIES BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE UNITED States and the European Union (EU) have launched a joint action programme to fight the counterfeiting of goods by international organised crime, an increasing problem for the pharmaceutical industry. Washington and Brussels say they will set up joint-border enforcement actions focusing on fighting intellectual piracy and establish teams of diplomats in third country embassies tasked with sharing data and intelligence on counterfeiting.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE UNITED States and the European Union (EU) have launched a joint action programme to fight the counterfeiting of goods by international organised crime, which remains an acute problem for the clothing industry. Washington and Brussels say they will set up joint-border enforcement actions focusing on fighting intellectual piracy and establish teams of diplomats in third country embassies tasked with sharing data and intelligence on counterfeiting.…

STORIES BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE UNITED States and the European Union (EU) have launched a joint action programme to fight the counterfeiting of goods by international organised crime, which remains an acute problem for the cigarette industry. Washington and Brussels say they will set up joint-border enforcement actions focusing on fighting intellectual piracy and establish teams of diplomats in third country embassies tasked with sharing data and intelligence on counterfeiting.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Court of Justice has ruled efforts to squeeze Ireland-based creditors from Bank of America-inspired insolvency proceedings of a Dublin-based subsidiary of Italian food giant Parmalat could be blocked by Irish courts. The ECJ confirmed the theoretical role of Italian liquidators, but in reality an Irish liquidator will probably handle the case.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Commission has proposed reforms to the scientific basis and transparency of decisions on approving or banning genetically modified organisms (GMOs) in foodstuffs. This follows concerns from member states that too many GM products are being approved for sale in the European Union (EU).…

STORIES BY KEITH NUTHALL

A DETAILED European Commission report on a key European Union (EU) water research programme has concluded that its scientists lacked the necessary communications strategies to inform the public and industry about their discoveries. Scientists participating in EU-INCO water research schemes "had limited resources to communicate effectively outside their well-established modes of workshops, training seminars, conferences, technical reports, websites and referred articles", said the report, which added: "An equivalent infrastructure to facilitate communication beyond the science community does not exist".…

BY MONICA DOBIE, in Ottawa

CANADIAN scientists have confirmed a hybrid bear born of a grizzly bear and a polar bear was recently killed by a sports-hunter in Canada’s Northwest Territories (NWT). The bear was a creamy polar bear colour but also had long claws, a humped back, shallow face and brown patches around its eyes and nose: grizzly traits.…

BY RAGHAVENDRA VERMA, in New Delhi

AN ALL-INDIA topper in school, the best performer in 1980 within his country’s Chartered Accountants’ Institute, and the first to hoist the sail of accountancy-outsourcing to India: Sunil Goel, 49, combines his academic knowledge, business skills and passion for information technology to reap the benefits of globally expanding business.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Court of Justice (ECJ) has ruled that efforts to squeeze Ireland-based creditors from Bank of America-inspired insolvency proceedings of a Dublin-based subsidiary of Italian food giant Parmalat could be blocked by the Irish courts. Although the ECJ ruling in principle also confirms the theoretical rights of Italian liquidators to have a role – noting that "the right of creditors or their representatives to participate" in insolvency proceedings "is of particular importance" – the effect in this case will be to guarantee the rights of a publicly appointed liquidator in Ireland.…

BY STEVEN SWINDELLS, in Johannesburg

ONGOING recruitment of South African nurses to the UK is pushing South Africa’s already hard pressed public health system close to the brink of collapse and putting patient care at risk, the country’s lead nursing union and health experts have warned.…