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BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE SECRETARY General of the International Maritime Organisation (IMO) has asked in a face-to-face meeting that new European Union (EU) fisheries and maritime affairs Commissoner Joe Borg secure widespread EU ratification of two IMO safety conventions. These are the 1993 Torremolinos Protocol for the Safety of Fishing Vessels and the 1995 International Convention on Training, Certification and Watchkeeping for Fishing Vessel Personnel.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
AN INTERNATIONAL symposium is being staged at the University of London next month to debate ongoing efforts to reach a sophisticated and global definition of the amount and type of food required to be healthy. New ‘human energy expenditure’ guidelines have been developed over the past two years by the UN’s World Health Organisation (WHO) and Food & Agriculture Organisation (FAO).…

BY TAMARA VANTROYEN, in Hong Kong

IT is not just a rumour anymore: China is officially upgrading its water quality, a move welcome to drinks manufacturers that rely on and control costs through guaranteed clean water supplies. China launched new drinking water standards in June, raising the number of forbidden water pollutants from 35 to 101.…

BY MATTHEW BRACE
AUSTRALIA’S paint and coatings industry has been enjoying a period of stability and steady prosperity of late, as a mature sector that is generally growing at the same rate as the country’s robust economy. Despite suffering the effects of the general downturn in the Asian economy after SARS and terrorism fears, the industry has remained highly competitive throughout the five-year period to 2003-2004.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE SEPTEMBER 11 attacks sparked a tightening of security restrictions around the world and the shipping industry has been a key focus. The latest initiative is the creation of a global system of biometric identifiers for seafarers. Keith Nuthall reports.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

UNITED Nations children’s agency UNICEF is claiming that encouraging mothers to exclusively breastfeed their babies for the first six months of their lives could prevent 1.3 million premature deaths. Celebrating the 15th anniversary of a UN declaration promoting breastfeeding, UNICEF and the World Health Organisation (WHO) claim six million infants’ lives are being saved annually because of successful global efforts to promote breastfeeding, which they say have risen 15% since this Innocenti Declaration.…

BY RICHARD HURST, in Johannesburg
SOUTH Africa is an emerging economy, neither fully developed, nor fully developing. As a result, there are some rich pickings for commercial criminals, who can operate more freely than in Europe and North America. Richard Hurst reports from Johannesburg.…

Keith Nuthall
THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) has slashed 100% retaliatory duties on a wide range of textile products after Congress abolished foreign sales corporations giving illegal tax breaks to US exporters. EU ministers have suspended these duties until next January, while a World Trade Organisation (WTO) disputes panel examines whether successor legislation, the American Jobs Creation Act, complies with global trade rules.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
THE CANADIAN federal government is still providing terrorism related insurance to the Canada’s aviation and nuclear industries at no cost but is keen to end this support three years on from the 9/11 attacks that forced insurers from these markets.…

KEITH NUTHALL
THE GLOBAL Environment Facility (GEF), an independent international funding organisation, is claiming to have converted Polish power consumers to using low energy compact fluorescent lamps. The GEF’s Poland Efficient Lighting Project claims when it started work in 1995, only 10% of Polish homes used such lights, by 1998 this was 33% and now it is 50%.…