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BY MARK ROWE

RUSSIA’S new-found belligerence and confidence is not confined to the political and military sphere: in the past four years – and increasingly so in the past 12 months – Russia has adopted an aggressive, take-it-or-leave it stance when it comes to imports of dairy and other food products.…

STORIES BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Commission was poised when the Petroleum Review went to press to unveil a long awaited package of energy proposals, although Brussels was expected to shy away from tabling wholesale unbundling of gas producers and distributors.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE OUTCOME of the political struggle about this month’s (Sept) release of a comprehensive proposed package of European Union (EU) energy directives and regulations insisting on some unbundling between power producers and transmitters will test the EU’s ability to threaten core interests of national governments.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

IT is common currency amongst extreme British Eurosceptics that business and government on the continent of Europe is a cesspit of dishonesty and corruption, against which Britain shines like a beacon of virtue and decency.

Allowing "Europeans" who lack Britain’s traditional sense of fair play and transparency control over the laws and regulations mandated by the "Mother of Parliaments" is heresy to such folk.…

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).…

BY PHILIPPA JONES, in Paris

STEM cells leapt to the attention of the cosmetics world earlier this year when US-based Voss Laboratories used Russian biotechnology to launch Amatokin, a ‘miracle’anti-wrinkle skin cream that uses stem cell technology. LVMH Recherche, the research arm of Louis Vuitton Moët Hennessy, the luxury perfume and cosmetics group, believes stem cells are central to creating ever-more effective cosmetics.…

BY ALAN OSBORN

THE MONEY Laundering Bulletin has found effects of the European Union’s (EU) second money laundering directive’s (2MLD) extension of EU anti-money laundering regulations to a range of businesses and professions are complicated by differences in the definition of the professions between the 27 member states.…

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.…

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).…

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.…