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BY MARK ROWE
THE CHAIRMAN of General Motors China has warned that neighbouring south-east Asia’s home grown car industry will in future find itself squeezed by stiff competition from the emerging giant next door. China’s expanding middle class, robust economic growth and low rates of vehicle ownership means that car makers in south-east Asian countries such as Thailand will be hard pressed to compete in the growing Chinese market, according to Phil Murtaugh, chairman of General Motors China.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE WORLD Health Organisation has announced a project to prevent blindness in children that will be initially funded by a US$3.75 million Lions Clubs International Foundation donation. The strategy would include funding immunisation against measles and rubella, improving supplies of vitamin A, supplying prophylaxes against eye diseases in babies, (including gonococcal infection), and deterring the use of harmful eye medicines.…

BY PHILIP FINE, in Montreal

LOW-FARE airlines are gaining a greater presence in north America, but according to the President and CEO of The American Society of Travel Agents (ASTA) they still have along way to go before taking on the major airlines.…

BY MARK ROWE
DISPUTES over who owns an idea and the right to stop others from stealing it probably date back to the cavemen who invented the wheel. It was most likely resolved by the application of a large club to the head.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
IN an increasingly borderless world, the power of international intellectual property conventions is growing ever stronger and the garden trade is being affected by this trend as much as mining and IT.…

Keith Nuthall
A BOOKLET has been published by the International Chamber of Commerce that advises accountants and their clients on how to protect themselves from being swindled by fraudsters. ‘Trade Finance Fraud,’ produced by the ICC’s Commercial Crime Services department includes case studies demonstrating the techniques fraudsters use to cheat victims of millions of Pounds, Euros and dollars through “phony documentation, non-existent consignments, containers packed with worthless rubbish and a multitude of other devices.”…

KEITH NUTHALL
HAULIERS who are forced to lay up for a weekend or during a public holiday, because of a proposed European directive limiting the right of EU Member States to introduce driving bans at sensitive times, should be provided with adequate rest facilities, a European Parliament committee has said.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
DETAILED rules on the international shipment of waste destined for recovery have been released by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). The guidelines, which are optional for the group’s rich country membership, include notes on documentation, the definition of recovery, and on how to deal with waste mixtures, re-exports and other issues.…

BY MARK ROWE
THE INTERNATIONAL Monetary Fund is to help set up an Islamic Financial Services Board to regulate and lay down standards for financial transactions throughout the Islamic world. A key aim of the project is to incorporate the special insurance tenets that exist in the Islamic business world into the wider capitalist system.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE INTERNATIONAL Programme on Chemical Safety (IPCS), of the United Nations, is promoting the use of so-called International Chemical Safety Cards, which are designed to reduce the risk of industrial accidents in companies using chemicals. Each card summarises essential health and safety information on chemicals for their use at work.*More…