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Keith Nuthall
THE NUMBER of women seafarers working in the world’s merchant navies is on the rise, but female ship workers still face discrimination and a lack of tailored facilities, an International Labour Organisation report has said. It claims women make up between one and two per cent of the world’s 1.25 million seafarers, on around 87,000 ships.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
UNITED Nations cultural and scientific agency UNESCO has welcomed a pledge by the International Council on Mining and Metals (ICMM) not to exploit, explore or mine in official World Heritage sites. The council represents 15 of the world’s largest metals and mining companies, namely Alcoa, Anglo American, AngloGold, BHP Billiton, Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold, Mitsubishi Materials, Newmont, Nippon Mining & Metals, Noranda, Pasminco, Placer Dome, Rio Tinto, Sumitomo Metal Mining, Umicore and WMC Resources.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) Council of Ministers has approved European Commission proposals to abandon moves to extend existing anti-dumping duties on imports of polyester textured filament yarn (PTY) from Taiwan, Indonesia, Thailand and Malaysia beyond 2005 and 2006, when the tariffs are due to expire.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
MOVES by the European Commission to extend anti-dumping duties on imports into the European Union (EU) of polyester textured filament yarn (PTY) from Taiwan, Indonesia, Thailand and Malaysia have been abandoned. This follows a note from (CIRFS) the International Rayon and Synthetic Fibres Committee that it was formally withdrawing a request for expiry reviews of the anti-dumping measures that could have led to their extension.…

BY MARK ROWE
THE INDONESIAN government has vowed to protect its beleaguered sugar industry and regulate imports in an effort to increase national production levels. A rate subsidy is to be issued through the Food Security Credit Scheme for People’s Sugarcane worth Rupiah900 billion (US$106 million) and fertilizer subsidies worth Rupiah1.3 trillion (US$140 million).…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE REFORM of the world’s anti-money laundering campaign is continuing apace. Defying critics of its alliance with the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, the Financial Action Task Force of the OECD has issued a revised set of its key 40 Recommendations to fight the crime.…

BY MARK ROWE
PT MERCK Indonesia, the pharmaceutical and chemical company, is to boost production capacity to reach Rp 37 billion (about US$4.1 million) by the end of this year by upgrading its machinery and renovating its plants, laboratories, office buildings and storehouses.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
AS with many projects inspired by the start of the next 997 years and the last three, the framing of the United Nations’ (UN) Millennium Development Goals was an ambitious enterprise.

Imposing statistically measurable targets for international organisations and national governments in making improvements in global poverty, education, gender equality, health, the environment and education, they have proved tough to attain.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
TEMPORARY safeguard measures protecting Brazilian producers of dried coconuts, (shelled and shredded), have been imposed on imports into Brazil of this confectionary ingredient from the Ivory Coast and Indonesia. These countries supply 4.67 per cent and 59.49 per cent of dried coconut imports into Brazil respectively, said a note to the World Trade Organisation.…

Keith Nuthall
THE INTERNATIONAL Maritime Bureau (IMB) of the International Chamber of Commerce has called upon the Indonesian government to take action against a gang of pirates who attacked and hijacked six vessels in six days in the Gaspar Straits, east of Java.…