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BY EMMA JACKSON

THE US federal government is of course a key player in the fight against money laundering and terrorist financing, through its Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FINCEN) Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) and laws such as the Patriot Act and the Bank Secrecy Act.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

EUROPEAN scientists studying the geological disposal of nuclear waste have released papers indicating that the process could be safe over the very long term. Indeed, an assessment of European Union (EU)-funded projects on the issue published by the European Nuclear Society (ENS) has suggested that "spent fuel is an effective isolation barrier for tens of thousands to millions of years".…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

CLIMATE control concerns will be integrated into all investment and advisory services offered by the International Finance Corporation (IFC), of the World Bank. It has created a new ‘Climate Business Group’ to undertake this work and grow IFC climate-related investments to more than US dollars USD3 billion within three years.…

Katherine Dunn, International News Services 

This summer in a characteristic feat of headline grabbing, the Danish People’s Party, or the Dansk Folkparti, announced their proposal to stem the flow of non-Western immigrants into the country. But such a pronouncement was nothing new. The party has made its name on an anti-immigration platform in this small, still culturally homogenous Scandinavian country.  

And it spends much of its time trying to ban minarets and attempting to uphold its particular brand of nostalgic ‘Danishness’. As a result, alongside the Netherlands Freedom Party and the British National Party, the DF has become a poster child for a wave of xenophobic sentiment on the rise across Europe.…

BY ALAN OSBORN

GIVEN the strong connection between tax evasion and money laundering, it would seem commonsense to suppose that tax cooperation agreements (TCAs) between countries where information about taxes paid or not paid is shared would be a powerful deterrent to the launderers.…

By Lawrence J. Speer

Shrinking state budgets and financial shortfalls linked to the global recession are forcing universities to devise new means of raising revenue, notably through increased interaction with the private sector, according to participants at an international conference at the Organisation for Economic Cooperation & Development (OECD).…

By Emma Jackson

Researchers say they have secured the future of Europe’s huge volumes of digital data, having created an open source software that will protect digital data from becoming unreadable or unusable because it is incompatible with newer technologies. This has been developed by the European Union (EU)-funded CASPAR (Cultural, Artistic and Scientific knowledge for Preservation, Access and Retrieval) programme.…

BY MARK ROWE

THE KEY emerging technology of nanotechnology looks set to pose some tricky end-of-life questions for the packaging industry, with regulators considering legislation controlling how nano-materials are disposed of, recycled and reused.

What to do with a product and its packaging when it reaches the end of its working life attracts as much attention nowadays as its production and nanotechnology is already dramatically enhancing the recycling properties of everyday materials, and is already proving relevant to the packaging industry.…

BY ALAN OSBORN

‘RELOADING’ is a double scam that exploits human psychological weaknesses to give criminals a second bite at some unfortunate victims after ripping them off initially with bogus time-share, investment and other offers. Alan Osborn reports.

THE INCREASING ubiquity of personal information through social media services have encouraged 419 or advance fee frauds.…

BY Lawrence J. Speer

Joe Astroth wants to be a change agent. As chief education officer of US-based high-tech giant Autodesk, Astroth is playing a leading role in the company’s continuing bid to create stronger links between industry and academia. And it’s a role he relishes.…