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BY KEITH NUTHALL

AN ENVIRONMENTAL impact assessment from the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) has given a qualified approval to a proposed gold mine project on the Russia-China border in Siberia. The EBRD has concluded the impact of Russian company Berezitovy Rudnik’s plans to exploit the Berezitovy gold deposit, in Tynda district, Amur region, "will be at a predominantly local level with a moderate degree of threat to the environment".…

BY TAMARA VANTROYEN, in Hong Kong

CHINA looks to be a likely candidate for the first country in the world to approve genetically modified rice, despite the fact that the State Agricultural GM Crop Biosafety Committee, a technical body which evaluates GM rice for research, did not approve the idea at its three-day meeting in Beijing, December 10-12, 2005.…

BY DEIRDRE MASON, in London

THE EUROPEAN car industry is putting itself in a strong position to tackle competition from rising economies, a leading UK automotive industry expert told wardsauto.com.

Speaking after the European Union (EU) launched its CARS 21 roadmap for a competitive automobile industry, Professor Garel Rhys, director of the Centre for Automotive Industry Research at Cardiff University, Wales, said: "Our product has renewed itself.…

BY DEIRDRE MASON, in London

THE EUROPEAN car industry is putting itself in a strong position to tackle competition from rising economies, a leading UK automotive industry expert told wardsauto.com.
Speaking after the European Union (EU) launched its CARS 21 roadmap for a competitive automobile industry, Professor Garel Rhys, director of the Centre for Automotive Industry Research at Cardiff University, Wales, said: “Our product has renewed itself.…

BY MARK ROWE

CHINA has spent the past 15 years playing catch-up with the developed world by building skyscrapers and demolishing its old hutongs and alleyways. It has been accused by cultural organisations of taking the view that, in order to justify its existence everything must have an economic means and end.…

BY DAVID HAWORTH, in Taipei

TAIWAN’S leading expert on transmissible diseases, Dr. Mei-Shang Ho, says that she is reasonably confident that the national surveillance system she helped design “will be able to catch anything which comes along” regarding threats to the island’s current bird flu status, despite being in the region where the disease is most common.…

BY TAMARA VANTROYEN, in Hong Kong

BEIJING’S museums have been hit by Olympic fever. China’s capital currently has 118 museums and by 2008 that figure is expected to have increased to 150. A total of US$854 million is expected to be spent on the building and renovating of museums prior to the Olympic Games.…

BY TAMARA VANTROYEN in Hong Kong

HONG Kong’s higher education system’s gradual move away from the British system of education to one that is more aligned with the US and mainland China models, is leading to a proliferation of associate degrees (ADs) springing up in Hong Kong.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Union’s (EU) rapid consumer alert service RASFF has warned of a spate of aflatoxin contamination in peanuts, groundnuts and hazelnuts from Turkey, Azerbaijan, Brazil and China, and in Turkish dried figs.

ENDS…

BY ALAN OSBORN

ONLY comparatively recently have the world’s anti money laundering agencies come to grips with alternative remittance systems (ARS) and even today the scale of the systems and the degree of infiltration by criminals is still not fully known.…