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BY PAUL COCHRANE

EARLIER this year, the Lebanese-Canadian Bank (LCB) was designated by the United States as a prime money laundering concern, for alleged connections to drug traffickers and acting as a financial conduit for Lebanese political party Hezbollah, which Washington considers a terrorist organisation.…

BY ALAN OSBORN

At first sight the World Health Organisation (WHO) might be thought a tad hypocritical in waging a campaign against tobacco smoking through its Tobacco Free Initiative (TFI) but leaving out of it any action against the smoke from open fireplaces in bars, hotels and restaurants.…

BY PAUL COCHRANE

UNDER the United Nations’ Al-Qaeda and Taliban sanctions regime, more than 30 states have frozen at least US dollars USD90 million in assets as of September 2010. But Al Qaeda, the Taliban and other designated terrorist groups in the Middle East and Central Asia continue to receive funding despite the region’s widespread adoption of international regulations on anti-money laundering and combating the financing of terrorism (AML/CTF).…

BY MARK GODFREY

IT is a sign of how hungry China has become for uranium that even private firms here are being allowed hunt for overseas uranium assets. New to the uranium market, Sichuan-based conglomerate Hanlong Energy joined a string of state-run procuring companies late last year when it invested US dollars USD5 million in Australia’s Marenica to dig for uranium in Namibia.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

CANADIAN government agencies have announced seven research projects on regenerative medicine and nanomedicine will received Canadian dollars CAD16 million (US dollars USD16.2 million) in public funding. The studies will be co-funded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research and the Canadian Space Agency – they will focus on multiple sclerosis, cancer, diabetes, spinal cord injuries, strokes and vascular diseases.…

BY MJ DESCHAMPS

FROM greater ease-of use to less waste, to brilliant colours, there are many benefits to solid ink printers over laser jet ones – yet, printer and printing inks manufacturers have not rushed to jump on the solid inks bandwagon.…

BY LEE ADENDORFF

For some it was a total disaster, for others a bump in the road, but the recession left no part of the clothing and textile retail sector unscathed. World Trade Organisation (WTO) statistics from 2009 show that while globally important manufacturing jurisdictions such as China and the European Union (EU) suffered 11% and 15% drops respectively in clothing exports, countries such as India, Vietnam and Bangladesh lost just a couple of percentage points and in India’s case, exports remained stable.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

CANADIAN scientists have produced an adaptable high-grade nanocrystalline cellulose (NCC) using a novel environment-friendly extraction process, which can be scaled-up for industrial applications. The country’s National Research Council’s (NRC) Biotechnology Research Institute, in Montréal, sought a new method of separating this nanomaterial from standard cellulose.…

BY WACHIRA KIGOTHO

CLASSIFIED as a failed state, Somalia is one of the world’s poorest countries, but oil production could change its fortune. Indeed, politically fractured Somalia is being touted as a potentially rich oil and gas producer. Given security, Somalia is increasingly regarded as economically strategically-located, a view fuelled by recent interest by Chinese and western nations’ oil and gas investment companies.…

BY MJ DESCHAMPS

USA/CANADA: Endowment returns recover for north American universities

MJ Deschamps

The recession seems to be over for American and Canadian higher education institutions, with a report on the returns from their endowment funds showing a sharp increase in income for the 2010 fiscal year compared with 2009.…