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BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE GERMAN government is giving Euro EUR1.2 million to a UN project expanding and upgrading small and medium-sized generic pharmaceutical manufacturers in Asia and Africa. It is run by the UN Industrial Development Organisation (UNIDO) and aims to spread medicine manufacture across a continent where production is mainly concentrated in South Africa, Nigeria, Ghana and Kenya.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) has been alarmed by coordinated ‘bot-net’ attacks on computer networks in Britain, Estonia, Georgia, France, and elsewhere, and is beefing up its cyber-defences. Keith Nuthall reports.

IT takes a lot to spark the lumbering bureaucratic behemoth known as the European Union (EU) into hasty action.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

IT’S tough for motorists driving in the dark – especially on gloomy nights where there are no street lights. More accidents result. The development of intelligent transport equipment, including in-vehicle cameras, linked to automatic braking and stability systems, is making a difference.…

BY LEE ADENDOORF

With the rapidly escalating use of RFID on all levels of the supply chain, there are literally hundreds of shapes and sizes of tags and readers – not to mention software and associated electronic systems – available on the market.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

EUROPEAN scientists studying the geological disposal of nuclear waste have released papers indicating that the process could be safe over the very long term. Indeed, an assessment of European Union (EU)-funded projects on the issue published by the European Nuclear Society (ENS) has suggested that "spent fuel is an effective isolation barrier for tens of thousands to millions of years".…

BY ALAN OSBORN

ASSET recovery is increasingly being regarded as an important law enforcement tool in Europe, with techniques becoming more sophisticated and integrated with prosecutions and investigations. The fundamental approach here is not new. ‘Go after the money’ has been a commonplace of law enforcement in the financial sector since at least the time of Al Capone.…

BY KARRYN MILLER and MJ DESCHAMPS

NEW Zealand knitwear has long been known internationally for its high quality and luxury, feeding off the country’s reputation for being the world’s second largest exporter of wool – after Australia. However, New Zealand’s small domestic market for knitwear has increasingly been buying Chinese made exports and New Zealand’s knitwear manufacturing industry – already a niche operation – is at something of a standstill.…

BY ROBERT STOKES

EXPORT development and digital trends dominated discussion at the 30th annual staging of Liber, Spain’s leading book fair, in Barcelona last week.

With Spain still gripped by recession, short-term hopes rest on exports and e-books. Government figures released at Liber showed book exports of all kinds rose 5.4% to EUR482 million (GBP402 million) in 2011.…

BY EMMA JACKSON

THE US federal government is of course a key player in the fight against money laundering and terrorist financing, through its Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FINCEN) Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) and laws such as the Patriot Act and the Bank Secrecy Act.…

BY ALAN OSBORN

EUROPEAN booksellers and publishers have welcomed the decision by the European Union (EU) Council of Ministers to approve legislation improving access to orphan works, whose copyright holders cannot be found. By encouraging their digitisation, the move will potentially open up vast swathes of books to libraries, museums and similar non-commercial organisations across Europe.…