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BY KEITH NUTHALL
A GLOBAL Forum on Food Safety Regulators has been staged in Morocco by the UN Food and Agricultural Organisation and the World Health Organisation, reflecting concern about recent food safety disasters, such as BSE.…

BY SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYAKA
THE INDIAN government is planning to kick-start its shoe component leather industry, as part of a plan to boost the country’s share of the global leather trade to 10 per cent from its current level of around seven per cent.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE STRUCTURE of the World Trade Organisation negotiations launched last year in Doha, Qatar, to liberalise much of global commerce, has now been set, with committees and working parties being given the task of agreeing detailed timetables for their work.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE INDONESIAN navy has dispatched three warships to the Malacca Straits following the release of International Chamber of Commerce’s Annual Piracy Report, which found they are still the most dangerous waters for commercial shipping in the world, the global business group claims.…

BY MONICA DOBIE, in Montreal
THE INTERNATIONAL Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) has endorsed a mandatory global air industry security audit, checking standards in all its 187 member states. The initial cost of the ICAO Aviation Security Plan of Action is US$ 17 million, agreed a High-Level Ministerial Conference held in the organisation’s Montreal headquarters.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE INTERNATIONAL Labour Organisation has released a report detailing how employment in the global oil and gas sectors has “shrunk dramatically” over the past 25 years. Citing “changing corporate structures and privatisation” as key reasons for the change, the Geneva based UN agency says that in the US alone, worker numbers slumped from a peak of 1.65 million workers in 1982 to roughly 640,000 by 2000.…

Keith Nuthall
A 2-day conference ending yesterday (Wednesday) in London has posed

questions which should be a matter of top priority to any financial

services company today: how well did the overall financial system and

individual organisations cope with the disaster of September 11th and what

lessons can we draw about dealing with similar outrages in the future ?…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
WITH the rulebook of the Kyoto Protocol on global warming all but written, the European Commission has been considering innovative ways regarding waste management in which it can help reduce the EU’s production of greenhouse gases.

A new paper written for the Commission’s directorate general by consultants AEA Technology proposes the segregation of municipal waste, so that materials such as paper, metals, textiles and plastics can be recycled, and decomposable refuse be composted.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE GLOBAL Partnership to Eliminate Riverblindness has announced that US$39 million has been pledged by its members to wipe out Onchocerciasis, (Riverblindness), in the whole of Africa by 2010. The group includes the World Bank, the World Health Organisation, the Food and Agriculture Organisation, the US Agency for International Development and 30 African countries, along with private pharmaceutical companies, (including Merck).…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A GLOBAL Forum on Food Safety Regulators has been staged by the UN Food and Agricultural Organisation, (FAO), and the World Health Organisation, reflecting concern about recent food safety incidents, such as BSE, that the FAO claims have “caused serious turmoil in the world food markets and raised concern among consumers.”…