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BY TAMARA VANTROYEN, in Hong Kong

CHINA looks to be a likely candidate for the first country in the world to approve genetically modified rice, despite the fact that the State Agricultural GM Crop Biosafety Committee, a technical body which evaluates GM rice for research, did not approve the idea at its three-day meeting in Beijing, December 10-12, 2005.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) is lending US$2.5 million to Kazakhstan’s Bericap Kazakhstan LLC to construct a new factory making plastic food container tops (or closures) for local and other central Asian markets. Part of the German plastic container company, the Bericap Holding Group, the Kazakhstan business plans to build purpose-built production facilities, allowing it to relocate its operations, optimising costs; providing space for future expansion; and improving environmental plus health and safety management.…

BY TAMARA VANTROYEN, in Hong Kong

BEIJING’S museums have been hit by Olympic fever. China’s capital currently has 118 museums and by 2008 that figure is expected to have increased to 150. A total of US$854 million is expected to be spent on the building and renovating of museums prior to the Olympic Games.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE NEW owner of two steel rolling mills in Macedonia has borrowed Euro 25 million from the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) to improve their energy efficiency and expand local working capital. Mittal Steel bought two Skopje-area rolling mills last year from Balkan Steel, which had financial difficulties.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

AN INTERNATIONAL alliance of environmental and conservation organisations, led by the United Nations Environment Programme, is developing maps pinpointing lakes, marshes and other wetlands, where wild birds potentially infected with bird flu are likely to fly, helping health authorities prevent and plan for outbreaks.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has called on national governments to devote more resources to operating the European Union’s (EU) Regulation controlling the processing, use and disposal of animal by-products, such as skin, bones and cartilage, to reduce their environmental health risks.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE UN Food & Agricultural Organisation (FAO) has hailed a blueprint agreed by experts at a Beijing conference as groundbreaking, by promoting food security and environmental sustainability. It called on governments to prioritise public expenditure on rural roads, information technology, research and training.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has issued a report on the operation of the European Union’s (EU) Regulation controlling the processing, use and disposal of animal by-products, such as fish heads and feathers, to reduce the environmental health risk they pose.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has issued a report on the operation of the European Union’s (EU) Regulation controlling the processing, use and disposal of animal by-products, such as fish heads and feathers, to reduce the environmental health risk they pose.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
LITTER collection and refuse disposal can pose environmental health hazards, so surely cities and towns would be cleaner if waste was sucked underground by a futuristic sucking mechanism. Sounds like the 22nd century, but actually, Swedish firm Envac Centralsug is already offering such a service.…