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DOUBTS EMERGE OVER IMPACT OF AMERICAN HEALTHCARE REFORM ON NURSES
BY CRAIG HOWIE
GERI Jenkins has seen more than most in her 32 years as a registered nurse in California.
Recently, she said, an uninsured patient was admitted to San Diego Medical Center suffering from acute respiratory failure. Rather than demand immediate care, the desperately ill patient requested that his treatment wait for a week – until he turned 65 – when it would be paid for by the government’s medicare programme for senior citizens.…
Roman Polanski case highlights the global politics of extradition
By Katherine Dunn, International News Services
The travails of Roman Polanski in Switzerland this autumn have offered some lessons to the world’s wanted over extradition laws and how to deal with them. The Polish director has of course been living in France, with little fear of extradition, since 1978, when he fled the USA facing statutory rape charges. Only now of course this autumn was he arrested on an American warrant on a visit to Switzerland, while movie stars and directors crowed for his release.
Now, he is out on bail, secured with the help of French president Nicholas Sarkozy and his wife, Carla Bruni, who intervened on Polanski’s behalf.
As Polanski languishes in Alpine house arrest in a luxury Swiss chalet, it’s clear that extradition is still, at base, a political decision – and to avoid it, one key is not supporting international causes unpopular with powerful governments.…
CANADA AND INDIA SECURE NUCLEAR COOPERATION DEAL
BY RAGHAVENDRA VERMA and KEITH NUTHALL
JUST two weeks after Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper visited India, he and Indian Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh have announced that they have struck a civilian nuclear cooperation agreement. Strangely this revelation came outside both countries, in Trinidad & Tobago, where both men were participating in the 2009 Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting.…
CHINA'S NUCLEAR POWER SPAWNING DIVERSE LOCAL EQUIPMENT MAKERS
BY MARK GODFREY
CHINA’S ambitious expansion of nuclear power capacity is driving a booming supply industry, with companies quickly diversifying into the sector. For instance, based in southerly Guangxi province, engineering firm OVM Co has segued into nuclear equipment after making cables and pipes for civil engineering.…
BANGLADESH KNITWEAR COMPANIES TO RECEIVE ADDITIONAL GOVERNMENT HELP
BY RAGHAVENDRA VERMA
BANGLADESH knitwear companies such as Ambia Fashion Wear and Knitex International are looking forward to further relief following their government’s announcement last week of a second economic stimulus package within one year. It will funnel US$150 million to Bangladeshi export industries – mainly in the knitwear, garments and textiles sector – through direct export subsidies, fiscal policy support and assistance to lower input costs.…
INDIGENOUS DIETS KEEPING TRIBES HEALTHY - BUT FOODS DISAPPEARING
BY KEITH NUTHALL
CONSERVATIONISTS may detest the notion of jungle food – cooking rain forest species for the dinner table. But harvested sustainably, the plants, animals and birds of jungles, deserts, ice caps and steppes inhabited by traditional societies offer excellent nutrition.…
FIRST COALBED METHANE WELL SUNK IN INDONESIA
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE FIRST coalbed methane exploration well in Indonesia has been sunk by Canada’s CBM Asia Development Corporation. The company is assessing methane reserves in the Sekayu block of Indonesia’s south Sumatra basin, tapping coal seams with prolific shallow coal reserves from 600 feet to 2,750 feet.…
GROWTH OF ECOTAXES GIVE GLOBAL AUTO SECTOR CAUSE FOR CONCERN
BY DEIRDRE MASON GAVIN BLAIR ANCA GURZU and KEITH NUTHALL
AS the Copenhagen conference charged with forging a new international climate change treaty gets under way this month, the auto industry worldwide will be looking closely at how the deliberations will affect its business.…
EUROPEAN COMMISSION WARNS OF ANTI-RECESSION POLICY TRADE BARRIERS FOR AUTO SECTOR
BY KEITH NUTHALL
A DETAILED European Commission report has listed trade barriers impeding European Union (EU) automobile, parts and components sales imposed to protect export market industries from the recession. Brussels fears that while these restrictions were designed to help vulnerable businesses survive the recession, they could cause long-term damage to Europe’s auto manufacturers.…
PUBLIC PROCUREMENT OUTSIDE THE EU - A TOUGH CALL
BY KEITH NUTHALL
ONE of the lynchpins of the European Union’s (EU) single market is its public procurement rules, which try to ensure pubic authorities, and some utilities and transmission operators, openly tender for their major purchases. The aim is that all EU suppliers have a fair crack of the whip in offering them goods and services.…