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BY KEITH NUTHALL
THERE is a tendency amongst international business to think that the drugs trade has little impact on the real economy. Not so says a United Nations agency report, drugs harm legal commerce. Keith Nuthall reports.

THE INTERNATIONAL Narcotics Control Board has to encourage governments to take tough action against illicit drugs and it knows that nothing corrodes effective policing against illegal narcotics than the dubious assumption that the trade actually promotes sustainable development in poor countries.…

BY SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYAKA
A NEW Delhi retailer has launched what it says is India’s first international perfumery gallery, devoting a whole floor of a store to scents from 40 designer brands. The Indian capital’s Kunchals is now selling lines from Gucci, Elizabeth Arden, Nina Ricci, Christian Dior, Escada, Cartier, Trussardi, Boss, La Praire, Benetton, Dunhill, Mont Blanc, Azzaro, Ferrari, Kenzo, Salvador Dali, Rochas, Lacoste, Nikos, Carlina Herrara, among others.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
POLITICAL pressure has been placed on European Union ministers to press for reforms to the world coffee trading system, which has experienced a 50 per cent drop in producer prices over the past three years, slashing the income of producers.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE INTERNATIONAL Chamber of Commerce (ICC) has advised companies to implement stricter internal controls following the recent publication of the Ernst & Young and KPMG studies indicating that staff fraud grew substantially in 2002. “These studies underscore the need for corporations to be aware of fraud risks not only externally, but internally as well”, said Peter Lowe, assistant director of the chamber’s Commercial Crime Services department.…

Keith Nuthall
THE INDIAN government is threatening to impose trade penalties on the European Union, because of the latest WTO decision in the long running cotton-type bed linen dispute, where the organisation’s appellate body ruled that the EU had failed to impose anti-dumping duties fully in accordance with international law.…

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 ALAN OSBORN
MEMBERS of the European Parliament want tougher rules over the composition and labelling of soap and detergents on sale in the 15 EU member countries. Parliamentary officials said, should the amendments tabled by the EP’s environment committee become law, they could lead to the phasing out of phosphates, or strict controls over their use, as an ingredient in soap and some perfumery items.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
IMPROVEMENTS to Afghanistan’s air traffic control systems are to be made with a US$19.3 million World Bank credit. It said that “deterioration of air traffic control equipment and a shortage of qualified operators has reduced the safety and availability of flights, Afghanistan’s most practical means for long-range domestic as well as international travel.”…

BY PHILIP FINE

FUZZY stuffed animals and puppet-toting uniformed guards could soon find a

permanent place amid all the high-level security at American airports. The

US Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has launched a ‘kid-friendly’

pilot programme at Denver International Airport. A triggered metal detector

alarm for a child will now launch screeners at Denver into federally

approved double duty, talking to the children, handing out smiling-face

stickers and entertaining them with hand puppets — all the while making

sure the children are not packing heat.…

BY PHILIP FINE

A TINY wire antenna and a computer chip the size of a piece of glitter will be imbedded into most retail product materials in the next few years, if all goes as

planned by those currently involved in developing a revolutionary tracking system.…