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BY PHILIP FINE

HEAVYWEIGHT cargo specialists, Emery Worldwide Airlines, has been sentenced for violating America’s Hazardous Material Transportation Act. The company admitted that on 12 occasions it failed to provide proper notice to its pilots that they were transporting dangerous goods, including nuclear material.…

BY SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYAKE
INDIA’S civil aviation minister Rajiv Pratap Rudy has told the Indian parliament that southern India airports will be made, while plans to upgrade the terminals at Mumbai (Bombay) and Delhi are delayed. Rudy said extension and resurfacing work at Hyderabad airport would be completed next June and the development of Andhra Pradesh’s Visakhapatnam airport would finish by September 2005.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE INTERNATIONAL Criminal Court (ICC) is a step closer to launching its first case, with Uganda President Yoweri Museveni referring the terror wrought by his county’s rebel group the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) to ICC prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo.…

BY PHILIP FINE

AMERICAN organisations representing retailers and apparel importers have released a study claiming that the impending January 2005 demise of the country’s clothing import quotas was a "well founded" proposition. The report was commissioned by the US Association of Importers of Textiles and Apparel, the American Apparel & Footwear Association, the American Import Shippers Association, the National Retail Federation and the International Mass Retail Association.…

BY PHILIP FINE

OBESITY is costing America US$75 billion (GBPounds 41.4 billion) a year in medical treatments, a recent study has found. According to researchers at RTI International and the US Centers for Disease Control, the estimated percentage of annual health expenditures in each state attributable to obesity ranges from four per cent in Arizona to 6.7 percent in Alaska.…

BY PHILIP FINE, SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYAKE and KEITH NUTHALL

THE OFFICE International des Épizooties (OIE) has intensified calls for beef importing countries to refrain from over-reacting to BSE outbreaks. Looking at the recent USA infection, the OIE said it opposes resulting blanket beef bans, saying only specified risk materials and animals should be blocked.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A SOUTH Asia regional meeting of the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) has agreed to set up a Central Reporting Agency (CRA), which would evaluate ground and airborne ADS/CPDLC systems performance in an operational trial for the Bay of Bengal area.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE AQUATIC Animals Commission (of the Office International des Épizooties – OIE – animal health organisation) has reported an outbreak of mikrocytosis amongst oyster beds in the western USA state of Washington. The organisation has reported five outbreaks, in the South Puget Sound and also the San Juan Islands.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE INTERNATIONAL Finance Corporation, of the World Bank, is lending US$10 million to Société Concessionnaire de l’Aéroport to expand Cambodia’s Phnom Penh and the Siem Reap-Angkor international airports. The company holds a 25-year concession from the Cambodian government to operate these terminals.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
SPECIALISTS at the Office International des Épizooties (OIE), the world animal health organisation, are continuing investigations into apparently unlinked outbreaks of “atypical” BSE strains in Italy and Japan to establish whether or not they are new strains of the disease.…