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BY MATTHEW BRACE, in Brisbane, EDWARD PETERS, in Hong Kong, RICHARD HURST, in Johannesburg, MARK ROWE, in London, SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYAKA, in Columbo and MONICA DOBIE, in Montreal.
FRAUD is fraud, jurists might say. And although jurisprudence generally has a universal flavour and there are frauds that are committed the world over, it would be a travesty of the truth to say that crimes involving deception uniform by nature.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
JUDGES and jurors across the continent of Europe should in future be protected from corruption by their national governments in all legal cases, under an extension of a Criminal Law Convention on Corruption that has been agreed by the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission is organising a pilot training programme designed to equip European 250 professionals this year with crisis management skills enabling them to bring order to regions that have been wracked by warfare or civil strife. The courses are being run at the Austrian Study Centre for Peace and Conflict Resolution, Stadtschlaining, and will involve judges, prosecutors, human rights observers, local administrators, social workers, teachers and infrastructure experts.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has proposed that three Norwegian companies be exempted from the European Union’s (EU) anti-dumping and countervailing duties on farmed Norway salmon, agreeing that they are new exporters untainted by past allegations of dumping. They are Vestmar AS, Gaia Seafood AS and Polar Quality AS.…

BY SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYAKA
LANKA IOC Private Ltd. is to create a US$38 million Sri Lankan joint venture with the Ceylon Petroleum Corporation, to take over the corporation’s existing storage assets and the construction and operation of new oil terminals at Muturajawela and Katunayake International Airport.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
THE EUROPEAN Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) is to acquire 35 per cent of the equity of one of the leading Kazakhstan insurance companies, Kazkommerts Policy (KPIC). The European Union’s EBRD, (the largest single investor in central and eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union), said it was subscribing for 53,846 ordinary shares but declined to give a price.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
MALAYSIA has been awarded control of part of the Celebes Sea by the International Court of Justice, enabling it to control local oil and gas prospecting. The area surrounds the islands of Pulau Ligitan and Pulau Sipadan, off Borneo, which had also been claimed by Indonesia.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
ITALY has been ordered by the European Court of Justice to cease allowing its museums and other cultural sites to discriminate against foreign European Union nationals over admission charges for its museums and other cultural sites. The European Commission said that in following up complaints from the public it had concluded that “the scheme of preferential rates applicable to persons aged over 60 or 65 years for admission to various Italian museums did indeed entail discrimination.”…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE GOOD practice of an innovative honey company has been highlighted through its winning a United Nations Development Programme prize for promoting small-scale honey production in Kenya. Honey Care Africa, supported by the World Bank’s International Finance Corporation, has won the US$30,000 Equator Prize.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A POWERFUL disused radioactive source left in a small unguarded bunker at the Ivory Coast’s University of Cocody (in the capital Abidjan) has been has been secured by the International Atomic Energy Agency, specialists from France and the host country.…