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BY MARK GODFREY

A GLANCE at the bustling Kwun Tong Wholesale Fish Market suggests Hong Kong’s live seafood market is thriving. Every morning with typical Hong Kong efficiency fish are hauled from holding tanks onto queuing trucks fitted with wooden boxes and air pumps.…

BY KEITH NOYAHR, in Colombo

SRI Lanka’s Tamil Tigers have stepped up commercial crime across continents to fund what they call the "final war" of separation, now the formal ceasefire with the govern,ent has ended. But, the foundation to pursue such sophisticated crime was laid during Sri Lanka’s highly internationalised peace process, reports Keith Noyahr from Colombo.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

EVERY decade or so comes a technology that is so new, comprehensive, interesting, and damned useful, that it changes the way that we learn, have fun and do business. Think commercial air travel, the mobile phone and the Internet…..these…

BY MONICA DOBIE

CANADA’S Competition Bureau has launched an investigation into allegations that the Canadian divisions of Nestlé, Cadbury, Hershey, Mars and others have teamed up in a price-fixing scheme in the multibillion-dollar Canadian chocolate bar business.

The chocolate companies involved are cooperating fully.…

BY ANDREW CAVE

PUBLIC place smoking bans are spreading like wildlife these days, with one country after another drawing up rules preventing tobacco use where it could expose non-smokers to second-hand smoke.

In the European Union (EU), this year, public place smoking bans have been introduced in England, Estonia and Finland, for instance.…

BY LARS RUGAARD, in Copenhagen

REPUTEDLY immense riches looming below the glaciated surface of the Arctic Ocean have come within human reach because climate change is gradually thawing the world’s previously frozen-stiff polar regions. But this consequence of a milder physical climate has provoked tension between the countries with an Arctic Ocean, creating echoes of the long defunct cold war, and indicating a long and tough legal and political fight for what could be an important addition to the Earth’s undiscovered hydrocarbon reserves.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

CANADIAN renewables company StormFisher Biogas (NOTE: CORRECT SPELLING) has struck a deal with one of the country’s largest wine producers – Inniskillin Wines, of Ontario – to produce biogas from grape waste. Skins, seeds, and other waste materials are digested to produce methane, which in turn is powering electricity generators, feeding into the Niagara area grid.…

BY DAVID HAWORTH, in Brussels

CONFECTIONARY consumers will need to note a clear perceived benefit from nanotechnology when applied to their products if there is not to be a re-run of debate similar to that surrounding the introduction of GMOs: that was the message from scientists and other food experts speaking at an EU seminar last week entitled "From Safe Food to Healthy Diets."…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE VAST profits generated by smuggling counterfeit cigarettes have been highlighted in a new OECD (Organisation for Economic Cooperation & Development) report. It concludes that container with 8.5 million sticks smuggled into the US would yield US$ 1-1.5 million in revenue, while costing the illicit manufacturer just US$ 120,000-130,000 to make, plus 25%-30% shipping costs, if made in China.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

INVESTING in jails may not be an obvious strategy to help a war-wracked country emerge from armed conflict, but such an initiative is being backed in southern Sudan. The Canadian government and the UN Development Programme (UNDP) have helped launch the Lologo Regional Training Centre, southern Sudan, and it is already re-orienting 550 former soldiers of the Sudan People Liberation Army (SPLA), which has struck a shaky peace deal with the Sudan government.…