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BY KARRYN CARTELLE

AUSTRALIA is currently ranked as the eighth largest market in the world – third largest within the Asia-Pacific region after Japan and Hong Kong – in terms of its total stock market capitalisation of AUD$1.63 trillion (USD$1.53 trillion) in 2007 (World Federation of Exchanges figures).…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

AN INTERNATIONAL website has been launched by two European campaign groups pushing for the return of water services to local governments worldwide. The Corporate Europe Observatory and Transnational Institute organisations have set up www.remunicipalisation.org to monitor campaigns for transferring water services from private utilities.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

AN INTERNATIONAL Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) symposium has been told that governments must pay special care to the possible legal pitfalls of shifting to interconnected aeronautical information management (AIM) systems. Speaking to the conference in Montréal, Canada, on June 2, Paul Lamy, ICAO air navigation bureau deputy director said the aviation industry must "pay attention to a number of legal and institutional considerations that could negatively impact on the transition from AIS [existing aeronautical information services] to AIM."…

BY MARK GODFREY, in Beijing; DEIRDRE MASON, in London; and MONICA DOBIE, in Ottawa

THE OLYMPIC Games are an international spectacle, but also an opportunity for serious organised crime report Mark Godfrey, in Beijing; Monica Dobie, in Ottawa; and Deirdre Mason, in London.…

BY MARK ROWE

NUCLEAR energy production costs a lot of money and so it makes some economic sense for smaller countries interested in this climate-change friendly power supply to combine forces on major projects. So it is in eastern Europe, where in February 2007, Latvia, Estonia, Lithuania, and Poland provisionally agreed to build a new nuclear plant at Lithuania’s existing Ignalina site, initially with 3,200 MWe.…

By Alan Osborn

The Paris-based educational consulting company Eduniversal, part of the SMBG group, has published a list of 1,000 top business schools ranking them by their "capacity for international influence" and grouped into nine geographic regions. SMBG, which specialises in reference services and publications for educational and higher educational institutions, claims that the Eduniversal initiative is "the first stone of a global federation of education."…

BY ANDREW CAVE

WITH scientific evidence of global fish depletion, governments and the fishing industry worldwide might be expected find common cause around ensuring sustainable resources will still exist in future years.

That’s not exactly how the response to fisheries sustainability has been framed, however.…

BY MONICA DOBIE, in Ottawa

In most European countries, the largest wild animals roaming towns and cities are badgers and foxes. Not so in Canada, in rural small towns, there is a real risk of black bears, grizzlies or even polar bears visiting bins and skips for food.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE FOOD and drink manufacturing industries could get a big shot in the arm this year, if the World Trade Organisation’s (WTO) seven-year-old Doha Development Round reaches a successful conclusion, as planned. If it does, all import duties on their products traded worldwide would be significantly reduced and there is a chance many of them could be eliminated altogether.…

By Monica Dobie

Move over solar power say American and Canadian university researchers: make room for the new power generator – the knee brace! Motorised prosthetic joints are great – but shame they need a battery. The same can be said about pacemakers.…