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BY MARK GODFREY, in Beijing
CIGARETTE counterfeiters have borne the brunt of recent Chinese government efforts to curb the country’s rampant trade in fake goods. However, Beijing’s recent efforts to rationalise and modernise the country’s cigarette industry – by some measures, the world’s largest – have unwittingly aided the counterfeiters.…

BY DAVID HAWORTH, in Brussels
THERE was a wonderful anti-climactic moment for journalists attending the end of the recent European Union (EU) summit in Brussels where it was agreed to tackle climate change and start developing a common European energy policy.…

BY ANDREW CAVE
THE UNITED Kingdom and Irish Republic governments had anti-terror finance frameworks long before this issue climbed global agendas in the wake of the September 11 attacks in the USA. The fight against terrorism in Northern Ireland over the past 40 years saw to that.…

BY DAVID HAWORTH, in Brussels
FRONT of pack nutritional labelling not only should, but will become mandatory and standardised throughout the European Union (EU) in due time, predicts Jim Murray, director of the European Consumers’ Organisation (BEUC).

“I can’t believe the industry can produce a voluntary code which will allow consumers to see at a glance the most relevant nutritional characteristics of particular foods,” he added in an exclusive interview with just-food.com,…

BY ANDREW CAVE
THE THOUGHT of burying millions of tonnes of carbon dioxide underground is not for the risk-averse. If carbon dioxide is injected into pores in the earth’s crust that previously held oil and gas for thousands of years, will it stay there as long?…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union’s (EU) second money laundering directive (2001) was hailed at the time of its approval as a major step forward in the fight against money laundering by extending to a range of new professions the reporting and identification obligations previously confined to financial institutions.…

BY LUCY JONES, in Dallas, Texas
GRAFFITI artists, US baby boomers and the massive expansion of low-cost housing are several – very diverse – factors buoying up Mexico’s paint industry.

Vast improvements in the property-buying process for foreigners, plus a slowing of the housing sector at home, are making the country’s coastal areas from Cancun to Baja California increasingly attractive for North American retirees.…

BY ANDREW CAVE
THE UNITED Kingdom and Irish Republic governments had anti-terror finance frameworks long before this issue climbed global agendas in the wake of the September 11 attacks in the USA. The fight against terrorism in Northern Ireland over the past 40 years saw to that.…

BY GAVIN BLAIR, in Tokyo
As the world’s third biggest energy consumer after the United States and China, Japan has long been concerned with its lack of self-sufficiency in power generation. The low level of food self-sufficiency (40%), which has always been something of a national obsession, looks positively healthy when compared to the 16% level for energy.…

BY MARK ROWE
IT might sound strange, but Darwin’s theory of evolution is as relevant to the anti-crime industry and its battle against counterfeiters, IT fraud and fake documentation as it is to the animal kingdom. As technology evolves to give security forces the upper hand, criminals and counterfeiters have historically been quick to play catch up.…