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BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE STEEP decline in sales of European Union (EU) finished leather to its number one market, the United States, has been highlighted by a comprehensive report on the global leather (and textile) market written for the European Commission.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE UNITED States has expanded its low-duty special quota for raw cane sugar imports to 1.23 million metric tonnes for October 2005-September 2006, from 1.11 million metric tonnes the previous year. Key beneficiaries include the Dominican Republic 204,649 tonnes; Brazil 168,603; and Australia 96,511.…

BY DEIRDRE MASON
EXCITING developments in malaria vaccine research may lead to a strengthened armoury against a disease that now infects about 400 million people worldwide and kills close to 2 million children a year. An international research project, led by Dr Adrian Batchelor from Maryland University, USA, has pinpointed a section of an important segment of “apical membrane antigen 1” or AMA-1 to those in the know, a protein produced by the malaria parasite during a critical stage of this complex, but deadly, organism’s development.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
DETAILS of restrictions imposed on exports to European buyers of leather raw materials have been highlighted in the detailed European Union (EU) market report. It identifies India, China, the US, Pakistan and Russia as “very important markets” for the supply of leather raw materials, whilst Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Egypt, Indonesia, South Africa, Malaysia and Brazil are labelled as “important suppliers (mainly by tanners)”.…

BY MARK ROWE
THE METEROLOGICAL Office, the UK’s national weather service, the Met Office, has launched a new version of its satellite-distribution weather advice service. The new upgraded SADIS2G (second generation) is being rolled out to air traffic control units (ATCs) and will gradually supersede the existing SADIS system.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
A NEW tank-and-siphon system removing oil from water will soon be launched internationally. Developed at the University of New South Wales, Australia, the Extended Gravity Oil Water Separation (EGOWS), removes oil to below 10 parts per million, requires no power and can be used unattended.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
A NEW tank-and-siphon system removing oil from water will soon be launched internationally. The University of New South Wales, Australia, developed, Extended Gravity Oil Water Separation (EGOWS), removes oil to below 10 parts per million, requires no power and can be used unattended.…

BY MATTHEW BRACE
FIGHTING money laundering is about getting your hands dirty. The Financial Action Task Force (FATF) may pronounce global standards that it would like jurisdictions to follow, but all governments need help, and often regional bodies are better placed to do the detailed work than more remote global organisations.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
INSURERS should have a much clearer idea of the risks involved in extending cover to the areas hit by the tsunami at the end of last year following agreement by 23 Indian Ocean nations to share data and set up seven regional warning centres.…

BY MATTHEW BRACE
NEW Zealand might only have a population of just over four million people but it has a paint manufacturing industry of some note. Anyone who has visited the capital, Wellington, or seen pictures of it, will remember the rows of brightly coloured houses along the waterfront.…