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BY LUCY JONES

IN his book ‘Bringing Down the House," Ben Mezrich describes how a group of MIT students took Las Vegas for millions in the 1990s, by using a card counting technique.

Targeting blackjack – the only casino game where the bettor sees the cards already played – so therefore can guess at which remain, the team adopted the hi-lo system which over time indicates how advantageous a game is to a player.…

BY MONICA DOBIE

A CANADIAN teenager has made a significant discovery on the decomposition of plastic bags as part of a science project.

Daniel Burd, a 17-year-old student at Waterloo Collegiate Institute in Ontario, found that using two types of bacteria Sphingomonas and Pseudomonas, was most effective at breaking down the polyethylene when combined with some sodium acetate and incubating the solution at 37 degrees.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

MAKING a living in the Canadian Arctic is never easy in commercial terms, given the restrictions imposed by the weather, the distances to populous markets and extremely undeveloped transport: there are no roads to and from the territory of Nunavut.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Union’s (EU) travel industry council claims assurances from the European Commission that EU airports will stop confiscating from October duty-free drinks from air passengers taking connecting flights within Europe commencing in the US and Canada. This pledge emerged in a meeting between newly appointed EU transport Commissioner Antonio Tajani and European Travel Retail Council (ETRC) president Frank O’Connell.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

A GROUP of influential countries are debating forging an international anti-counterfeiting of goods agreement, fighting fake food and drink products. Australia, Canada, the European Union, Japan, Jordan, Korea, Mexico, Morocco, New Zealand, Singapore, Switzerland, the United Arab Emirates, and the United States have been discussing the idea.…

BY DEIRDRE MASON

THE AUTOPARTS and automotive industries are calling for far tighter world-wide enforcement against counterfeiting, as influential countries meet in Geneva to thrash out more details of a global Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA).

First mooted by the Office of the US Trade Representative in October 2007- and pursued aggressively by the US Chamber of Commerce – Australia, Canada, the European Union, Japan, Jordan, Korea, Mexico, Morocco, New Zealand, Singapore, Switzerland and the United Arab Emirates have since come on board to try to develop ACTA.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Union’s (EU) travel industry council has received pledges from the European Commission that EU airports will stop confiscating from October duty-free drinks from air passengers taking connecting flights within Europe commencing in the US and Canada.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Travel Retail Council (ETRC) has claimed assurances from the European Commission, that European Union (EU) airports will stop confiscating from October duty-free cosmetics and perfume pastes, gels and liquids bought in the USA and Canada. These have been seized from passengers taking connecting flights within Europe, after flying from north America.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Union’s (EU) travel industry council claims assurances from the European Commission that EU airports will stop confiscating from October duty-free pastes, gels and liquids from air passengers taking connecting flights within Europe commencing in the US and Canada.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

IMPORT duties imposed by the Chinese government on auto-parts, when China-based assembly plants fail to use a minimum proportion of China-manufactured parts, have been declared illegal at the World Trade Organization (WTO).

A disputes panel ruled today that these tariffs broke China’s free trade commitments under the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) and so should be scrapped.…