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BY KEITH NUTHALL

DEVELOPING countries are failing to exploit the demand for cultural products, says a UNESCO Institute for Statistics report, which notes Britain, the USA and China produced 40% of the world’s cultural trade products in 2002, while Latin America and Africa together accounted for less than 4%.…

BY MATTHEW BRACE, in Sydney

FOR devotees of Captain Kirk, Dr Spock and the original Star Trek crew, the thrilling world of nanotechnology could sound vaguely familiar. It offers the 21st century a swathe of new products and services, from dirt-repelling cars to ‘thinking’ materials that can change colour automatically.…

BY ALAN OSBORN

IN line with the growing recognition in the 1980s of anti-money laundering campaigns as a weapon against terrorism and increased knowledge global drug supply routes, (implicating a number of Latin American countries), governments of the western hemisphere concluded that greater formal co-operation was necessary in fighting dirty money.…

BY MATTHEW BRACE, in Sydney

IT might sound like science fiction but many of the most exciting and useful advances emerging from the super-science of nanotechnology are real. Nanotechnology is a relatively new approach that deals with understanding and applying the properties of matter at the nano-scale, where a small molecule measures one nano-metre (one billionth of metre) in length, or about 1/80,000 of the diameter of a human hair.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE WORLD’S senior anti-money laundering body, the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) is to focus on Africa, following a meeting of the international organisation, in Cape Town last week. FATF members approved a strategy where its officials and those of the Eastern and Southern Africa Money Laundering Group "work together more aggressively to combat money laundering and terrorist financing in the region".…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE PRESIDENT of Canadian auto manufacturer supplies giant Magna International has welcomed the European Commission’s approval of its purchase of German roof system manufacturer CTS Fahrzeug-Dachsysteme GmbH (CTS) from sports car maker Porsche. Brussels has imposed no conditions on the deal, which it concluded would not harm competition in the European Union (EU).…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

NORTH America’s Commission for Environmental Cooperation (CEC), helped by the US, Canada and Mexico governments has released a detailed report claiming that removing lead from petrol has reduced lead levels in children’s blood in all three countries.*

http://www.cec.org/files/pdf/POLLUTANTS/CEH-Indicators-fin_en.pdf…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE UNITED States International Trade Commission has been told by a North America Free Trade Area (NAFTA) panel to review a decision to renew a countervailing duty on Canadian exports to the USA of alloy magnesium. The panel ruled the commission "has not provided a reasoned explanation based on all of the evidence" that scrapping duties would lead to Québec producer Magnola unfairly underselling and harming the health of American producers.…

BY LIZ HALL, in Alicante

SINCE March 2005, Operation White Whale, an extensive international anti-money-laundering operation spearheaded by the Spain’s National Police (the Policia Nacional), has produced the arrest of 57 people and the laundering of at least Euro 250 million euros obtained through illegal drug trafficking, according to Spain’s Interior Ministry (Ministerio del Interior).…

BY MONICA DOBIE and KEITH NUTHALL

TIME was when Canadians focused a significant proportion of their habitual condescension towards their American neighbours through beer. US brands were dismissed as weak in alcohol, tasteless and generic. But today, even though the big US beer labels taste the same as they ever did – much to the relief of many consumers around the world, of course – Canadian beer tastes are changing, especially among the young.…