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Fraud investigation has come a long way since the days when police launched dawn raids on suspect premises, driving criminals to flush away paper evidence down the toilet. We have technology to thank for that.

Advances in information handling have radically changed the ways in which big companies guard their financial records and the methods used by fraudsters to overcome them.  …

Fraud investigation has come a long way since the days when police launched dawn raids on suspect premises, driving criminals to flush away paper evidence down the toilet. We have technology to thank for that.

Advances in information handling have radically changed the ways in which big companies guard their financial records and the methods used by fraudsters to overcome them.  …

Chinese authorities have set up a laboratory to study and prevent bird strikes.

The lab – the first of its kind in China – will operate at Tianjin Binhai International Airport and carry out ecological analysis of birds.

Scientists will be study warning, intervention and correlation patterns by analysing habitat, soil, water and plants as well as analysing different ways of dispersing flocks.…

RUSSIA’S agriculture ministry has announced that it is drafting a decree that will extend the country’s ban on imports of a wide range of European Union (EU), US, Canada, Australia and Norway food exports until December 31, 2017. Russian agriculture minister Alexander Tkachev said in Moscow today that his ministry did not plan to expand the number of products covered by the ban.…

A COST of maintaining nuclear generation capacity of between 95 GWe and 105GWe in the European Union (EU) until 2050 and beyond will cost between EUR350 and EUR450 billion over the next 35 years, the European Commission has concluded. (That is between USD398 billion and USD511 billion at current exchange rates).…

New Zealand’s butter producers may be a global force in this key dairy segment, but they have regarded the groundbreaking Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement with scepticism. Negotiations for the TPP produced a deal last October (2015), and although New Zealand dairy giant Fonterra and the DairyNZ producers association declared they had secured increased access to some key markets – Japan, Canada and the United States all increased butter quotas to varying degrees – there was general agreement that the gains had been modest.…

It is high time universities started to measure more what achieve in student learning, and less in enrolment, the Presidents’ Forum of the Worldwide Universities Network (WUN) has been told. The president of the Netherlands’ Maastricht University’s, Professor Jo Ritzen, referenced an American study in 2011 which found that many USA university and college students did not learn much at all.…

Laboratory-grown meat has moved from a distant sci-fi concept to a realistic idea that could be commercialised and mainstream in just a few years, according to industry experts. “We aim to commercialise in four to five years, and it will become mainstream in the two to three years after that,” Prof Mark J Post, professor and chair of physiology at Maastricht University, in the Netherlands, told just-food.…

Several brands of traditional Chinese medicines have been found to contain illegal substances not fit for human consumption, according to a study carried out by Australia’s Perth-based Curtin University, Murdoch University, also in Perth, and the University of Adelaide.

Researchers from the three universities tested 26 widely available medicines and found that more than 90% of them contained ingredients not listed on the products’ labels.…

The 2016 outlook for the US paints and coatings industry remains positive, with experts predicting growth thanks to a resilient US economy, a strong performance by the manufacturing industry, and notable new trade agreements.

According to IBISWorld, a global market research company, the US paints and coatings industry bounced back quickly from the financial economic crisis beginning in 2008.…