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BY PACIFICA GODDARD

AFTER five years of work – not to mention delays and complications – the New Quito International Airport is finally poised for completion this coming October, and is set to pave the way for significant increases in trade and tourism in Ecuador’s capital city.…

BY LEAH GERMAIN, IN EDMONTON

CANADA’S diamond industry is blossoming into a world leader as the third largest producer of rough diamonds, after Botswana and Russia. But ready profits from valuable natural resources can encourage crime, specifically money laundering. Leah Germain investigates the country’s current legislation and precautions taken by the industry to prevent the laundering of assets through the purchase of diamonds.…

BY LEAH GERMAIN, IN EDMONTON

CANADA’S smaller iron ore producers stand to benefit from the recent announcement by the Canadian federal government to fund modernisations at an important shipping port in northern Quebec. A project to improve the Port of Sept-Îles will do ahead with a Canadian dollar CAD55 million public investment, matching similar investments from the port authority in a CAD220million expansion project.…

BY JOHN PAGNI, IN HELSINKI, AND KITTY SO

When officially opened on May 8, Finland’s new 90MW Kymijärvi 2 power station will break ground in its novel energy efficiency and environment technology: a waste-to-energy combined heat and power (CHP) production unit using clean bio-gas as its fuel.…

BY DAVID HAYHURST, IN PARIS

When talking to Accounting & Business in her Paris office, Michèle Cartier Le Guérinel often struggles to make herself heard over the noise of the renovations shaking the walls on either side of her. Several floors of her international accountancy organisation FIDEF’s headquarters, in an anachronistically new and large building on an otherwise quiet street in the most elegant seventh arrondissement (a stone’s throw from the Eiffel Tower), are undergoing a thorough makeover.…

BY LEAH GERMAIN

THE PAKISTAN-BASED Tethyan Copper Company (TCC) is moving forward with their legal proceedings with a Pakistan province following the denial of a mining lease and application. TCC, a joint venture project between Chilean copper producer, Antofagasta and Canada’s Barrick Gold, claims that the provincial government of Baluchistan unlawfully rejected its application to mine the massive Reko Diq project in Chagai Hills of southwest Pakistan.…

BY MJ DESCHAMPS, IN OTTAWA

ONE of Canada’s last two remaining asbestos mines has filed for bankruptcy protection, leaving no active asbestos operations currently ongoing in the country.

The announcement by LAB Chrysotile, which operates the Lac d’Amiante mine near Thetford Mines, Québec, follows a production halt last October, which resulted in the loss of about 350 jobs for local miners.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE WORLD Trade Organisation (WTO) is establishing a disputes panel to rule on whether feed-in tariff systems can limit their subsidies to electricity produced by locally-made technology – or whether such conditions break global commerce rules. That is the view of the European Union (EU), which has brought this case against Canada.…

BY KACI RACELMA, IN TIZI OUZOU, ALGERIA

ALGERIA: Ongoing reforms transform the north African country’s research and education landscape

Kaci Racelma

Significant education reforms are on the horizon for Algeria’s higher education sector, with the latest push being the European Union (EU) Council of Ministers’ approval of a scientific and technological agreement with this north African country.…

BY MJ DESCHAMPS, IN OTTAWA

DESPITE the growing popularity of e-books sales worldwide, Canadian physical book sales held up this Christmas. "Over the holiday season, the Canadian print book market saw a very slight decrease in sales," said Samantha Francis, spokeswoman for not-for-profit agency BookNet Canada, which tracks the sales of 75% of print books in Canada.…