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BY KEITH NUTHALL
DANISH scientists have developed a robot reducing the herbicide needed to kill off weeds during crop production. Offering advantages to food processors concerned about herbicide residues and input costs, the robot drives across a field, scanning the ground for weeds and noting their position.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
WITH the World Health Organisation securing approval for its long debated Framework Convention on Tobacco Control, attention is now turning to ratifications by member countries: 40 are needed for it to come into force, Last minute concessions were made at the WHO to bring dissenters such as Germany and the United States on board, who had objected to the convention’s insistence on signatory governments banning tobacco advertising; both countries said this broke constitutional guarantees of free speech.…

BY PHILIP FINE

EMISSIONS trading programmes can achieve environmental goals faster and more economical than other alternative ecological policies, says report from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Pew Center on Global Climate Change. The US group says that a well-designed and implemented cap-and-trade system ensures that environmental goals are met, regardless of where gases are emitted

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BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE WORLD Heath Organisation announced that 40 countries and the European Union signed the new global Framework Convention on Tobacco Control within a week of it being agreed. Signatories included Britain, Spain, Iran, South Africa, Bangladesh and France.…

BY MARK ROWE
RUSSIAN Aluminium has confirmed that it has been in discussion with officials in Sierra Leone about a possible takeover of a bauxite mine in the country.

Officials at Sierra Leone’s Mineral Resources Ministry said that RusAl had put together an investment project for a bauxite mine in southern Sierra Leone and that the plans formed part of a wider strategic co-operation between the government of Sierra Leone and RusAl.…

BY SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYAKA
A SRI Lanka soap manufacturer has been given a global prize for the quality of his product seven months after the award was announced, because he had been unable to secure a visa to visit London for three days to receive it.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
DUTY-FREE sales of tobacco rose last year, despite some catastrophic hits being taken by a world travel industry still reeling from September 11. An increase of 6.1 per cent to US$2.3 billion was also the first year-on-year rise for years.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
AGRICULTURAL economists may disagree, but predicting trends in world food markets is not necessarily rocket science. A dose of healthy common sense can be as good a guide for the future demand for commodities as any amount of slide rules and complex economic equations.…

BY MATTHEW BRACE
THE CLUTCH of much-maligned offshore financial centres (OFCs) on remote Pacific islands have been swamped by so many accusations of impropriety, they are now struggling to stay afloat.

Labelled as palm-fringed, sun-drenched laundries for the world’s dirty money, these tiny island states and dependent territories are trying to fend off attempts by international organisations to excommunicate them from the global financial church.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
Vertically integrated companies in the supply of gas and electricity will not be required to separate and sell off subsidiaries engaged in transmission under a compromise plan expected to be agreed by the European Parliament this week. The Parliament had originally insisted on complete separation but is now ready to accept a deal agreed by the EU council of ministers that permits common ownership but sets conditions on operations.…