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GLOBAL OLIVE OIL PRODUCTION IS BOOMING
BY LEE ADENDOORF, ALYSSA MCMURTRY, MAKKI MARSEILLES, and KEITH NUTHALL
GLOBAL olive oil manufacturing is on a roll, with the International Olive Council (IOC) saying 2009-10 world production was 3.02 million tonnes, a season-on-season increase of 354,500 tonnes (+13%). This would be the second best olive oil production year ever, next only to the record of 3.17 million tonnes produced in 2003/04.…
HUNGARY PUSHES FORWARD ON AML CONTROLS AFTER EMERGING FROM CHAOTIC 1990s
BY MARK ROWE and KEITH NUTHALL
HUNGARY’S strategic location in central Europe, a cash-based economy, and a well-developed financial services industry, makes it important to both pan-European anti-money laundering enforcement, and indeed, to criminals themselves.
Generally, the nature of money laundering that goes on in Hungary can be serious but stops short of funnelling funds to terrorist organisations.…
CZECH GOVERNMENT PUSHES AGGRESSIVELY AGAINST HIGH SMOKING RATES
BY MARK ROWE
Czech government pushes aggressively against high smoking rates
The Czech government is using tax increases and smoking restrictions to reduce smoking. It has particular concern about high youth smoking rates. However, the Czech Republic remains a stable and high value market for tobacco majors.…
IATA CHIEF CALLS FOR SECURITY OVERHALL BASED ON PASSENGER PROFILING
BY DANIEL PRUZIN
THE GLOBAL airline industry is spearheading a push for an overhaul of airport screening procedures which would use passenger profiling as a way to speed people through airport security checks, the head of the International Air Transport Association (IATA) has said.…
IATA CHIEF CALLS FOR SECURITY OVERHALL BASED ON PASSENGER PROFILING
BY DANIEL PRUZIN
THE GLOBAL airline industry is spearheading a push for an overhaul of airport screening procedures which would use passenger profiling as a way to speed people through airport security checks, the head of the International Air Transport Association (IATA) has said.…
IATA CHIEF CALLS FOR SECURITY OVERHALL BASED ON PASSENGER PROFILING
BY DANIEL PRUZIN
THE GLOBAL airline industry is spearheading a push for an overhaul of airport screening procedures which would use passenger profiling as a way to speed people through airport security checks, the head of the International Air Transport Association (IATA) has said.…
ASBESTOS EXPERT ACCUSES JAPAN OF PUSHING FAULTY ASBESTOS TEST
BY JULIAN RYALL
JAPAN is being accused of trying to write its own official asbestos testing system into an international standard, because it knows it does not work and so will get its government off the hook for asbestos exposure cases.…
EUROPEAN RESEARCHERS DEVELOP NEEDLE-LESS INJECTION
BY KEITH NUTHALL
EUROPEAN Union (EU) research network Eureka has hailed as a success a research and development project using its services creating a new needle-free injection device. The Zeneo – developed by France-based CrossJect – is a pre-filled, single-use injection device adapting to different injection depths (intradermal, subcutaneous, intramuscular).…
TAX EVASION TREATIES DO HELP ANTI-MONEY LAUNDERING INQUIRIES, SAY EXPERTS
BY ALAN OSBORN
GIVEN the strong connection between tax evasion and money laundering, it would seem commonsense to suppose that tax cooperation agreements (TCAs) between countries where information about taxes paid or not paid is shared would be a powerful deterrent to the launderers.…
BHUTAN: Future higher education hub of Asia
Kencho Wangdi
The Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan is renowned for its untouched mountainous beauty. It is also known for its political innovation: it tobacco sales ban and use of ‘gross national happiness country’ as a yardstick for development. But it may soon become known as a higher education hub of Asia, if current plans go well.…