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EIB MAKES URANIUM PRODUCTION LOAN TO URENCO



BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Investment Bank (EIB) is lending Euro 200 million to Urenco Ltd for expanding two uranium enrichment plants in Britain and the Netherlands. The money will help the company install new centrifuge cascades in both plants. Said an EIB memorandum: "This project forms part of the company’s medium-term investment programme, meeting global uranium enrichment demand by the use of Urenco’s world-leading energy-efficient technology."…

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CANADIAN SEAFOOD INDUSTRY PUSHES TO EXPLOIT NATURAL RESOURCES ADVANTAGES



BY MONICA DOBIE, in Ottawa, and KEITH NUTHALL

IT would almost be hard for Canada not to be one of the seafood industry’s largest global players. After all, surrounded by the Arctic, Atlantic and Pacific oceans and the Great Lakes as well, Canada has the world’s longest coastline (244,000 km).…

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EU AND INTERNATIONAL ORGANISATION ROUND UP - TUNA QUOTAS SLASHED



BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Commission will close the bluefin tuna fishery in the eastern Atlantic and the Mediterranean for rest of 2007 because the annual quota of 16,779.5 tonnes has been exhausted. Fisheries controlled by (Greek) Cyprus, Greece, Malta, Portugal and Spain will affected.…

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GLOBAL KIWIFRUIT LEADER TO PRESS FORWARD WITH INNOVATION



INTERVIEW – TONY NOWELL, ZESPRI.

BY KARRYN CARTELLE

THE WORLD leader in kiwifruit – New Zealand’s Zespri International – appeared on the scene in 1997, a whole 45 years after the first kiwifruit were exported from its home country’s shores. But despite such a late start the company has experienced rapid growth, securing the dominant position in the kiwifruit marketplace.…

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WHO REPORT SAYS HABITS SUCH AS SMOKING CAUSES MORE CANCER THAN GENERAL AIR POLLUTION



BY KEITH NUTHALL

IT’S not where you live that gives you cancer, it’s what you do. That is the stark message given by a new detailed World Health Organisation (WHO) study of French cancer data. It found by examining epidemiological data for cancer in France during the year 2000 that tobacco smoke was responsible for 23.9% of all cancer deaths (34,383 smoking-related deaths), alcohol consumption for 6.9% (9,880 deaths); infections 3.7% (5,378 deaths); work-related risks 2.4% (3,439 deaths); obesity 1.6% (2,316 deaths); and physical inactivity 1.6% (2,239 deaths).…

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SECOND LIFE OFFERS VIRTUAL BUSINESS WORLD FOR ACCOUNTANTS



BY KEITH NUTHALL, in the real world, and BELINDA BLESSED, in Second Life

EVERY decade or so comes a technology that is so new, comprehensive, interesting, and damn useful, that it completely changes the way that we have fun and do business.…

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WHO REPORT SAYS HABITS SUCH AS SMOKING CAUSES MORE CANCER THAN GENERAL AIR POLLUTION



BY KEITH NUTHALL

UNHEALTHY habits, such as smoking and drinking alcohol cause significantly more cancer than general environmental air pollution, a World Health Organisation study of French cancer data has concluded. ‘Attributable causes of cancer in France in the year 2000’, published this September, assesses cancer cases attributable to specific risks such as smoking, obesity, oral contraceptives and environment pollutants.…

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EU JUDGES ORDER NETHERLANDS AND GREECE TO REMOVE OBSTACLES TO USED CAR IMPORTS



BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Court of Justice (ECJ) has told Greece and the Netherlands to remove obstacles to second hand car imports that would make it easier – if they are removed – for fleet managers to export and sell old vehicles.…

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INFLUENTIAL EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT COMMITTEE URGES CRACK DOWN ON PUBLIC SMOKING



BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Parliament’s influential environment committee has pushed for a formal European Union (EU)-wide ban on smoking in public places. Backing a report drafted by German Christian democrat MEP Karl-Heinz Florenz, MEPs called on all member states within two years to support an unrestricted smoking ban in all enclosed workplaces, catering establishments, public buildings and transport systems.…

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AFRICAN WILDLIFE MAROONED ON MANMADE LAKE ISLANDS IS STRUGGLING TO SURVIVE



BY BILL CORCORAN, at Lake Kariba, Zambia

THE SIGHT of thousands of decomposing semi-submerged trees protruding from its murky waters is an eerie clue to the traumatic origins of southern Africa’s Lake Kariba, a 200km long manmade reservoir wedged between Zimbabwe and Zambia.…

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