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BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE UNITED Nations’ International Seabed Authority has launched its eighth decision-making session at its headquarters in Kingston, Jamaica, a meeting which will see discussions on harvesting minerals from the deep sea. A technical workshop meeting is expected to propose specific international research projects on how mineral extraction might harm the deep ocean environment.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE INTERNATIONAL Chamber of Commerce is appealing for help to help it track down the perpetrators of a fake share-offering that has left European businesses out of pocket. Its Commercial Crime Bureau wants to hear from victims of a scam, where investors have been offered bargain prices for stick of companies that were supposedly about to go public, but which actually did not exist.…

BY SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYAKE
THE SRI Lankan government has announced that it is to furnish its cabinet and junior ministers with 115 new photocopiers, bought in a multi-million rupee deal from John Keells Office Automation (JKOA), part of the John Keells Holdings group, one of the country’s largest companies.…

From Alan Osborn
The European Commission has proposed changes in fishing rules to

reflect recent international agreements, new scientific advice and a ruling

by the European Court of Justice. Brussels said the adjustments were to

strengthen the sustainability of the fisheries concerned and provide EU

fishermen with the opportunities available after the latest scientific

advice.…

BY MONICA DOBIE, in Montreal
THE OWNERS of the Le Clos Jordan vineyard estate in Canada’s Niagara Peninsula have commissioned Canadian architect, Frank Gehry – known primarily for his unorthodox Guggenheim Museum, in Bilbao, Spain – to design plans for a new winery set on a 137 acre site.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
APPLICATIONS have been made by the Australian government for the trade in two species of Pacific toothfish to be controlled under the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES). These species, Dissostichus eleginoides and mawsonii, which are also known as Chilean sea-bass, would be included on its Appendix II list, requiring traders to acquire special permits to deal in them.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
THE AVERAGE consumer that tucks into a pint of Ben & Jerry’s Cherry Garcia or Chunky Monkey has no idea that this supposedly quaint, hippy-dippy company that started out of an old garage in the beautiful landscape of America’s Vermont Green Mountains, is really owned by the nemesis of such small companies – a faceless multinational – in this case, Unilever.…

BY MARK ROWE
INTERNATIONAL organisations are supposed to help business fight off sophisticated crime networks, but now the fraudsters are turning the tables and using the good name of these institutions as part of their scams. Mark Rowe reports.

IT STARTED with a fax from a Chinese businessman to the Vienna headquarters of the United Nations Office for Drug Control and Crime Prevention (ODCCP).…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A MOVE to liberalise the global trade in artificially propagated orchids has been made by the USA, which has formally proposed that six species are exempted from controls under the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES).…

BY PHILIP FINE

AMAZON – the world’s largest online book retailer – could soon be selling clothes. The New York Times has reported several unnamed retail industry executives being approached by the on-line giant. Retailers Nordstrom, Gap, Banana Republic and Old Navy are expected to be first on board for a launch in the coming months.…