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BY KEITH NUTHALL
FEED the world. Bob Geldof. Don’t they know it’s Christmas time? Food aid: it is supposed to be simple. Poor countries have hungry people. Rich countries have fat people. The developed world sends food to the developing world.…

BY MARK ROWE
NEWLY independent East Timor has signed a treaty with Australia dividing Timor Sea oil and gas revenues. The Timor Sea Treaty awards East Timor 90 per cent of the profits from oil and gas developments in a designated joint production area, guaranteeing the country US$5 billion in earnings over the next 17 years.…

BY MARK ROWE
THE BEST selling international brand, Lucky Strike, launched in 1871, is older than BAT and its eye-catching bull’s eye remains one of the oldest trademarks in the world. It is sold in some 90 countries and is BAT’s premier global brand for the key ASU30 segment of the market, particularly with urban smokers.…

Keith Nuthall
A WORLDWIDE poll of 1,000 business experts has revealed overwhelming global support for the idea of agreeing uniform international accounting principles. The survey, staged by the International Chamber of Commerce and the Munich-based Ifo Institute, revealed that the experts generally considered uniform principles were either “very important,” (51per cent), or “important,” (46 per cent), for achieving higher standards.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
SCIENTISTS at Australia’s University of Tasmania have created technology to produce beneficial omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids from marine microorganisms.

These acids are found in fish oils but derive from what fish eat rather than the fish themselves. This breakthrough comes on the heels of the discovery that southern hemisphere fish oils have higher amounts of omega-3s than those in northern waters.…

BY MATTHEW BRACE
ELECTRONIC noses being tested in Australia could be used to monitor smell levels from meat processing centres. The odour sentinels, created by the Centre for ChemoSensory Research, in Sydney, contain conductive material which detects smells above certain levels of intensity and can identify the source.…

BY MATTHEW BRACE
ELECTRONIC noses being developed in Australia are to be tested to monitor smell levels from factories; industry is being pressured to clean up its act with smell being a key issue.

The odour sentinels, created by the Centre for ChemoSensory Research at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, stand like small sentry boxes sniffing out bad smells and alerting engineers automatically.It…

BY MATTHEW BRACE, in Sydney
AUSTRALIA’S low fare carrier, Virgin Blue, (owned by Sir Richard Branson), has signed a contract reflecting the high standard of skills commanded by civilian airlines worldwide: to train pilots who crew VIP aircraft for the Royal Australian Air Force.…

BY MATTHEW BRACE
ENGINEERS in Australia have developed what they claim is a cleaner, safer and more economical industrial mixer that has important applications for the mining industry.

The Soliquid mixer blends solids and liquids in a continuously flowing stream by creating a vortex, but without using any blades or other external parts.…

BY MATTHEW BRACE
SYDNEY is the “defamation capital of the English-speaking world” according to a British legal expert working in Australia’s largest city. Based on his research, figures show that one writ is served for every 79,000 people in the state of New South Wales; a higher rate than England, (one writ per 121,000 people), and much higher than the United States, where the proportion us one writ per 2.3 million people.…