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BY SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYAKE, in Columbo, Sri Lanka, and KEITH NUTHALL
ELECTRONIC devices and double fencing with increased strong points are to be installed at Sri Lanka’s Bandaranaike International Airport to strengthen perimeter security, following the devastating recent attack by Tamil Tiger guerrillas.…

Alan Osborne
THE EUROPEAN Agency for Safety and Health at Work has published a series of good practice case studies from around the continent, in a bid to advise companies how to improve their record in protecting employees from harm.

Called Quality of Work: New Approaches and Strategies in Occupational Safety and Health, the report is available for free and focuses on initiatives in Britain, Spain, Ireland, France, Austria, Belgium, Denmark, the Netherlands and Finland.…

BY MONICA DOBIE AND ALAN OSBORN
FOR many, the big development in the cigar business this year is Cuba’s decision to start manufacturing and exporting mini Havanas. All the famous names – including Montecristo, Romeo e Julietta, H Upmann, Jose el Pidra, Partegas and Punch – are now available in mini form.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
RESEARCHERS have been asked to bid for a contract to write the European Commission a ground-breaking report on environmental crime in the EU, that would try and establish firm statistics on its extent and seriousness. Its conclusions could be used by Brussels to draw up new EU action programmes and laws on eco-crime.…

BY RICHARD HURST, in Johannesburg
THE SOUTH African agriculture and land minister Thoko Didiza has urged wine growers in the Western Cape to embrace automation in the industry, to deal with the loss of low paid labourers who have left the region’s agricultural industries since the onset of black majority rule in 1994.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
CLOTHING manufacturing countries that are members of the World Trade Organisation have attacked the world’s major importers – the US, the EU, and Canada – for failing to even approach the liberalisation targets imposed by the WTO’s Agreement on Textiles and Clothing.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
BOOK club companies must pay value added tax on the costs of delivering gifts in kind to existing customers as a reward for bringing in new business, the European Court of Justice has ruled. The judgement came in a case involving clubs operated by the German media giant Bertelsmann between 1985 and 1990 when books, records and bicycles were given to subscribers in return for the introduction of new members.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
EUROPEAN Union ministers have been formally asked to approve writing the new Protocol on Water and Heath to the 1992 Convention on the Protection and Use of Transboundary Watercourses and International Lakes into EU law. The treaty commits signatories to ensuring adequate drinking water and sanitation, while preventing waterborne pollution and disease.…

KEITH NUTHALL
TEXTILE manufacturing countries that are members of the World Trade Organisation have attacked the world’s major importers – the US, the EU, and Canada – for failing to even approach the liberalisation targets imposed by the WTO’s Agreement on Textiles and Clothing.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
As a young man, Larry Stevenson, now 44, served as a paratrooper in the Royal Canadian Armed Forces in peace-keeping.

He graduated from Harvard in business and formed a venture capital company called Pathfinder 1992, bought Smithbooks 1993 and then Coles 1994, merging them to create Chapters in 1995.…