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BY ALAN OSBORN
LARGE insurance companies will note with interest the UK government’s announcement at an international conference attended by Insurance Day, of plans to promote corporate social responsibility (CSR) around the world. Trade minister Nigel Griffiths told the Royal Institute of International Affairs (Chatham House) conference said his government would create a “framework setting out the Government’s approach to CSR at the global level” which will be an attempt “to push the CSR agenda internationally.”…

BY ALAN OSBORN
THE HOT topic in Gibraltar’s financial circles at present is Spain’s accusation that the Rock’s authorities have not been co-operating in the fight against money laundering. This is not an unfamiliar charge in the perpetual diplomatic row between Madrid and the British territory, but the latest airing of it has gained extra bite because of the enormous scale of the alleged crime, according to local newspaper reports, to run up to Euro 600 million and maybe more.…

BY MATTHEW BRACE
TASMANIA’S non-ferrous metals industry is enjoying a welcome resurgence with strong production targets for the next five to ten years.

Miners in Australia’s island state are reluctant to call it a “metals rush” but it is the most significant set of resource finds for more than 100 years.…

BY MATTHEW BRACE
SINGAPORE’S economy is rejuvenating after the horrors of early 2004 when the threat of terrorism (both internationally and closer to home in South East Asia), and then the SARS virus hit the city state hard, shrinking demand for construction and hence the amount of money to be made by the coatings sector.…

BY MATTHEW BRACE
TASMANIA’S non-ferrous metals industry is enjoying a welcome resurgence with strong production targets for the next five to ten years.

Miners in Australia’s island state are reluctant to call it a “metals rush” but it is the most significant set of resource finds for more than 100 years.…

BY DAVID HAWORTH, in Brussels
PROPOSALS for a new European Union (EU) wine regime, which are currently under review, will be unveiled in 12 months’ time according to the recently installed European Commissioner for agriculture, Mrs Mariann Fischer Boel.

In a wide-ranging interview in her Brussels office she admitted that the present arrangements are not working.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
PHARMACEUTICAL companies have been accused of risking missing the opportunities offered by the latest technological zeitgeist, that of nanotechnology. Consultants Lux Research has warned that while European Union (EU) governments are spending on nanotechnology research, large medicine manufacturers are investing very little.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE PAKISTANI government has launched formal disputes proceedings at the World Trade Organisation (WTO) over claims that Egypt is breaking global commerce rules by imposing anti-dumping duties on Pakistan match exports. Egypt introduced the tariffs because it says cut-priced Pakistani matches are unfairly eating into the domestic market share of Egyptian match producers.…

BY DEIRDRE MASON and KEITH NUTHALL
THE SPORTS and entertainment industries thirst for sponsorship, and with the ever-growing boom in televising sporting events worldwide via satellite, the chance to expose a drinks company logo to world audiences in their billions should make sponsorship a sellers’ market.…

BY DEIRDRE MASON
DO product and food alerts work? For consumer safety, it is essential that they do, but the global nature of today’s markets means that the recall net has to be cast over a vastly wider area than in the past.…