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BY MONICA DOBIE
A NEW genetic test that can detect devastating clam disease QPX has been developed by American scientists at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI), in Cape Cod Massachusetts. They claim the test is sensitive enough to detect the QPX organism not only in clams, but also in seawater and sediment.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE MULTILATERAL Investment Guarantee Agency, or MIGA, is the international organisation companies turn to when they want to invest in a jurisdiction where their assets might not be that safe. Mining companies have long used MIGA to cover risks that are too tasty for the private insurance industry, and the agency has issued 58 guarantees for the sector since it was formed in 1988.…

BY MONICA DOBIE

A NEW genetic test that can detect devastating clam disease QPX has been developed by American scientists at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI), in Cape Cod Massachusetts. They claim the test is sensitive enough to detect the QPX organism not only in clams, but also in seawater and sediment.…

BY ALAN OSBORN

ONLY comparatively recently have the world’s anti money laundering agencies come to grips with alternative remittance systems (ARS) and even today the scale of the systems and the degree of infiltration by criminals is still not fully known.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
AN ENVIRONMENTAL organisation has blamed American businesses for dodging safe, but costly recycling methods for their used computer equipment by shipping them to developing countries in an insincere show of philanthropy, which actually causes severe environmental damage.

A report called ‘The Digital Dump: Exporting Reuse and Abuse to Africa,’ written by the Seattle-based Basel Action Network, says the bulk of used computer equipment sent from the United States to developing countries for use in homes, schools and businesses is often neither usable nor repairable.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has been told by the WTO to reconsider its planned tariff of Euro 187 for bananas imported from Latin America, whilst Caribbean and African producers had an annual duty-free quota of 775,000 tonnes.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
AN INTERNATIONAL alliance of environmental and conservation organisations is to develop a bird flu early warning system, alerting countries, and even communities, of a looming risk posed by migrating wild birds that may carry the disease. The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), the Convention on Migratory Species (CMS), Wetlands International, Birdlife International and the International Council for Game and Wildlife Conservation are planning to help the scheme.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
ELIMINATING child labour in Latin America within the next 20 years could generate an estimated US$340 billion in economic benefit as a result of children’s improved access to universal education and better health care, according to an International Labour Organisation (ILO) study.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EU must reconsider its planned Euro 187/tonne tariff for Latin America bananas, while Caribbean and African producers get an annual duty-free quota of 775,000 tonnes, said the WTO.…

Keith Nuthall
SPIRITS companies have pushed the American radio-advertising envelope once again by posting full-length song ads on satellite radio stations. The latest wave of ads, sponsored by Diageo’s Tanqueray Gin, features a 2.5 minute hip-hop song titled “Get Your Ice On,” and are running on Sirius Satellite Radio stations in the US and Canada.…