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KEITH NUTHALL
PAKISTAN polyethylene terephthalate (PET) manufacturers have escaped from paying punishing anti-dumping duties on exports to the European Union (EU), while Brussels wants to levy such tariffs on similar products from China and Australia. The European Commission has asked the EU Council of Ministers to release provisional duties collected from Pakistani manufacturers, while retaining those taken from Chinese and Australian producers.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE WORLD Health Organisation (WHO) has praised China for securing a 30% drop in cases of tuberculosis since 1991, linking its success to a comprehensive anti-TB strategy called the Directly Observed Therapy Shortcourse (DOTS). China was, it said, now on track to meeting the WHO’s global goal of cutting TB outbreaks in half by 2015.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union has lifted bans on the import of Chinese shrimps, farmed fish, honey, royal jelly, rabbit meat and some other animal products, citing improvements in controls in the use of veterinary medicines.…

BY EDWARD PETERS, in Hong Kong
HONG Kong might be renowned for being one of the safest cities in the world – mugging and other forms of street violence are practically unknown – but that’s not to say that commercial crime doesn’t rear its ugly head in the Special Administrative Region (SAR) of China, reports Edward Peters.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
WORLD Trade Organisation (WTO) director-general Dr Supachai Panitchpakdi has launched talks with member countries on maybe staging an emergency meeting of the WTO council for trade in goods on the oncoming abolition of textiles and clothing quotas. He has been consulting on this idea, proposed by Mauritius, Bangladesh and Nepal, which want the council to examine the costs of adjusting to a global quota-free regime from January, under the WTO’s agreement on textiles and clothing.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) Council of Ministers has moved towards creating an effective cross-border gas market in the newly expanded EU, striking political agreement over a regulation on gas networks. It harmonises the conditions for accessing gas transmission infrastructure, specifying third party access, rules on capacity allocation, congestion management and the release of transmission information required for gas providers to use foreign systems.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE UNITED Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) has called for human flu vaccines to be given to all poultry slaughterhouse workers, following the reemergence of bird flu in three Asian countries: Vietnam, China and Thailand. The FAO said research showed the virus was more widespread than previously thought and was unlikely to be “eradicated soon”.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
IMPORT bans into the European Union (EU) of poultry products (and poultry) from Thailand, Cambodia, Indonesia, Japan, Laos, Pakistan, China, South Korea and Vietnam have been extended to December 15 by the European Commission. The existing restrictions were to expire on August 15, but Brussels is still concerned about bird flu in these countries.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
‘CATCH me if you can’ might well be the motto of international money launderers. Despite laws criminalising the practice being well established, international organisations are continuing to extend their legal and geographical scope. Keith Nuthall reports.

IF a continent has need of comprehensive cross-border anti-money laundering legislation, it surely has to be Europe.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
SAKER FALCON

*Elegant flyers with 110cm wingspan, sandy-brown upper-feathers, and whitish below, with dark streaks.

*2003 wild population estimated at 3,600-4,400 pairs, a 48-70% decline from 1990, nesting from Hungary to western China.

*Steepest falls from 1990 in Kazakhstan – 90%, Uzbekistan – 90%, Russia – 69%, Kyrgyzstan – 68% and Mongolia – 59%.…