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BY ALAN OSBORN

AS the Money Laundering Bulletin discussed recently, essentially there are three international non-governmental organisations engaged in the fight against money laundering – the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) together with its sister regional organisations, plus the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank.…

BY RAGHAVENDRA VERMA, in New Delhi

INDIA’S oil industry has made great strides towards reducing flaring, but more gas by-product from oil production can still be extracted and sold, says India’s Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC).

Niladri Kumar Mitra (NOTE – NAME IS CORRECT) offshore director for ONGC told the Petroleum Review that his organisation has worked "since late nineties to reduce those gases from flaring", and that in some platforms and plants "has achieved zero flaring."…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

ETHIOPIA COMMODITY EXCHANGE OPENS

ETHIOPIA has opened a commodity exchange, designed to bring order to the country’s often chaotic food markets. Their informality effectively forces farmers to sell locally to traders they know and trust. This prevents commodities moving from regions where there is abundance to those where there are shortages, intensifying the risk of famine and for prices to plummet in districts with a production glut.…

BY ANDREW CAVE

TOBACCO companies aren’t usually credited with helping to save the planet. However, local hostilities tend to be easily forgotten when there’s a war going on and that’s how many eco-warriors view the global battle against climate change: old enemies can become allies, even Big Tobacco.…

By Alan Osborn

The European Parliament has strongly backed a report calling for a bigger role for women in European research and setting out specific initiatives to improve the gender balance. The report "Women in Science," drawn up by the Danish MEP Britta Thomsen, was adopted earlier this month (May) by 416 votes in favour with 75 against and 164 abstentions.…

BY RACHEL JONES, in Caracas

OFF the coast of Guyana and Surinam, north of Brazil, lie what may be some of the world’s largest untapped oil reserves. They have remained unexplored for years, thanks to a maritime border dispute between the two South American countries, the former an ex-British colony, and the latter once run by the Dutch.…

BY JULIAN RYALL, in Tokyo

BY any standards, it has been a tough couple of years for the Japanese nuclear energy industry. Still stinging from public, political and media criticism of atomic energy operators’ practices – including the way in which companies consistently failed to report data that might have been damaging to their operations – the industry was then dealt a blow by Mother Nature.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) is expected to extend definitive anti-dumping duties on leather upper footwear exported from China to similar products sold from Macao, following concerns about illicit trade diversion.

Investigations by the European Commission showed that after duties ranging from 9.7% to 16.5% were imposed in 2006 on mainland Chinese exports, there was a huge boom in exports of leather upper footwear from Macao.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

MALTESE clothing and textile workers who recently lost their jobs in layoffs are to receive Euro 681,207 from the European Union (EU) in social assistance and retraining packages. The European Globalisation Adjustment Fund – designed to help Europe cope with worldwide economic change – will assist 675 workers who lost their jobs last summer from VF (Malta) Ltd and Bortex Clothing Ind Co Ltd.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) is expected to extend definitive anti-dumping duties on leather upper footwear exported from China to similar products sold from Macao, following concerns about illicit trade diversion.

Investigations by the European Commission showed that after duties ranging from 9.7% to 16.5% were imposed in 2006 on mainland Chinese exports, there was a huge boom in exports of leather upper footwear from Macao.…