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WORLDWIDE EFFORTS TO MAKE TANKERS LESS POLLUTING ARE MAKING PROGRESS
BY DEIRDRE MASON, in London; LUCY JONES, in Dallas; JULIAN RYALL, in Tokyo; and KEITH NUTHALL
GIVEN the spate of oil tanker accidents in recent years involving substantial pollution of seas and coastlines around the world, it is no surprise that international organisations have weighed in with regulatory controls and guidelines on shipping standards.…
EU AND USA BUY MORE TIME TO RESOLVE LONG-RUNNING BANANA TRADE DISPUTE
BY KEITH NUTHALL
EUROPEAN Union (EU) and USA have bought themselves more time to resolve the long-running banana trade dispute that has been subject to World Trade Organisation (WTO) disputes procedures since 1996.
They have agreed with WTO officials to postpone the adoption of a ruling branding the EU a scofflaw over its favouring the import of African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) bananas over those exported from central and south America, usually by US firms.…
AUSTRALIA PUSHES AHEAD WITH COMPREHENSIVE ANTI-MONEY LAUNDERING REFORMS
BY KARRYN CARTELLE
AUSTRALIA is currently ranked as the eighth largest market in the world – third largest within the Asia-Pacific region after Japan and Hong Kong – in terms of its total stock market capitalisation of AUD$1.63 trillion (USD$1.53 trillion) in 2007 (World Federation of Exchanges figures).…
INTERNATIONAL ORGANISATION ROUND-UP: RESCUE PACKAGE FOR EU FISHERMEN DEBATED IN BRUSSELS
BY KEITH NUTHALL
EUROPEAN Union (EU) ministers are debating an urgent rescue package for a European fishing sector that is being buffeted by high fuel prices. European Commission officials are drafting formal proposals, which would suspend certain European Fisheries Fund subsidy controls for two years.…
CYBERCRIMINALS POSE RISK TO ESSENTIAL UTILITY COMPUTER NETWORKS
BY KEITH NUTHALL
LAST May, a coordinated attack on essential computer networks in the tiny Baltic republic of Estonia set nerves upon edge amongst European Internet security specialists. Following the removal of a Russian war memorial from the centre of its capital Tallinn, a still unidentified group of computer users bombarded Estonian political, government, media and banking websites with so much data, they were forced offline.…
COLLAPSING ENVIRONMENTAL REPUTATION OF BIOFUELS ENCOURAGES SYNFUEL RESEARCH
BY MARK ROWE
IN the past 18 months, the rush toward biofuels as the new green alternative to fossil fuels has of course come to something of a juddering halt. Concerns over just how green they are, and the implications of growing crops for energy rather than food, have led to the UN, major energy companies, scientists and environmental organisations looking beyond the first generation of biofuels.…
CYBERCRIMINALS POSE RISK TO ESSENTIAL ENERGY COMPANY COMPUTER NETWORKS
BY KEITH NUTHALL
LAST May, a coordinated attack on essential computer networks in the tiny Baltic republic of Estonia set nerves upon edge amongst European Internet security specialists. Following the removal of a Russian war memorial from the centre of its capital Tallinn, a still unidentified group of computer users bombarded Estonian political, government, media and banking websites with so much data, they were forced offline.…
LEAST DEVELOPED COUNTRIES STRUGGLE TO COPE WITH OIL PRICE RISES
BY KENCHO WANGDI, in Thimphu, Bhutan; JUHEL BROWNE, in Port of Spain, Trinidad; BILL CORCORAN, in Johannesburg; and KEITH NUTHALL
THE RISING price in oil has hit the prosperity of many companies, communities and countries, but it is the world’s poorest people, living in what the United Nations calls least developed countries that are suffering the most.…
WTO LAYS DOWN THE LAW ON EUROPE'S DISCRIMINATORY BANANA REGIME
BY KEITH NUTHALL
IT is official: the World Trade Organisation (WTO) will have no truck with the European Union’s (EU) discriminatory trade regime favouring imports of African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) bananas over those from Latin America. In its 2005 "duty-free tariff quota for bananas originating in ACP countries, the European Union has failed to implement the…rulings" of the WTO, ruled a special compliance panel requested by the USA.…
COMMISSION GREEN-LIGHTS NEW MERGED NAVIGATION AID COMPANY
BY KEITH NUTHALL
A MAJOR company able to create integrated digital navigation maps and portable navigation devices should be formed, following the approval of a Dutch merger deal by the European Commission. It has green-lighted the acquisition by the Netherlands’ device manufacturer Tom Tom of co-patriots Tele Atlas, which makes navigable digital maps covering Europe and north America.…