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BY KEITH NUTHALL
TECHNOLOGICAL advancement seems to go hand in hand with miniaturisation; witness the development of the mobile phone from its 1980’s high-tech brick to today’s tiny handset; smaller than the devices used by Captain Kirk in the early Star Trek episodes that peered centuries into the future.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
GLOBAL cosmetics company Aveda is to give US$500,000 to an eco-tourism project involving the United Nations Environment Programme and the United Nations Education, Science and Cultural Organisation. Sites benefiting are Sian Ka’an and El Vizcaino biosphere reserves, Mexico; Tikal national park, Guatemala; Rio Platano biosphere reserve, Honduras; and Komodo and Ujung Kulon national parks Indonesia.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE INTERNATIONAL Labour Organisation has estimated that the aviation and associated industries have shed 400,000 jobs worldwide since September 11, because of the terrorist attacks themselves and ongoing global economic slump that they worsened. Jobs have been lost in airports, airlines, air navigation services, equipment manufacturers, catering companies and car rental facilities, said the ILO.…

BY MATTHEW BRACE, in Sydney
JUNGLE travellers will soon be donning insect-repellent clothing instead of normal jackets or trousers that need constant re-spraying and are damaged by the toxins. Melbourne’s Global Speciality Chemicals has devised a way of binding the insect-repellent “permethrin” to cloth so it remains deadly to insects for months, if not years.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE UNITED Nation’s Global Fund to fight HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria in developing countries has financial commitments from the private and public sector of US$1.5 billion, the World Health Organisation has claimed. The first meeting of the fund’s board was to have taken place on January 28.…

BY SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYAKA
INDIA is planning to open an international airport serving Buddhist pilgrims visiting the site of the Buddha’s enlightenment, in the undeveloped state of Bihar, which would receive flights from around the world, unrestricted by bilateral agreements.

New Delhi and the Bihar state government have identified land for the development, between the religious site of Buddha Gaya and nearby Gaya town.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE AGREEMENT of a Convention on the Protection of the Underwater Cultural Heritage by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation, (UNESCO), may not help museums gain access to treasures from shipwrecks and sunken buildings, specialists in the UK have claimed.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
TIGHTER noise restrictions on commercial aircraft visiting European Union airports have been proposed by the European Commission; it has tabled a new directive that would allow the worst affected airports to ban aircraft that marginally comply with the existing Chapter 3 standard accepted by the International Civil Aviation Organisation.…

From Alan Osborn
The fashionable term in setting up international energy projects these days is “flexible mechanisms” of which the best known is the trade in emission reductions, or carbon credits. The Framework Convention on Climate Change and the Kyoto Protocol, which guides implementation of the Convention, laid down emission reduction targets for industrialised countries but allowed flexibility to meet them through the purchase of emission credits from poorer countries.…

From Alan Osborn
The fashionable term in setting up international energy projects these days is “flexible mechanisms” of which the best known is the trade in emission reductions, or carbon credits. The Framework Convention on Climate Change and the Kyoto Protocol, which guides implementation of the Convention, laid down emission reduction targets for industrialised countries but allowed flexibility to meet them through the purchase of emission credits from poorer countries.…