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BY KEITH NUTHALL
A DATABASE providing information about workplace smoking issues has been set up by the International Labour Organisation. It includes descriptions of relevant legislation, journal articles, books, government documents, reports, kits, case law, training materials, and analysis, including notes on productivity costs caused by tobacco usage.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
ENGLISH lawyers would firmly oppose the establishment of EU legislation harmonising European contract law practice, claims the European Commission.

Releasing the results of wide-ranging consultation on four options for potential reform, Brussels said that the keenest opposition to EU legislation came from English lawyers, who “fear that the global significance of English common law would suffer.”…

Keith Nuthall
INTERNATIONAL airports have been at the centre of a Europol-coordinated series of raids that netted 335,000 ecstasy pills. Airports involved included Amsterdam-Schiphol (89,000 pills), Frankfurt/Main (83,000), Zürich (40,000), Madrid (27,000), Brussels (10,000), Paris Charles de Gaulle (26,500), and Miami (59,000).…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE INTERNATIONAL Atomic Energy Agency has secured a radioactive source containing a significant amount of cobalt-60 in Uganda. It had been discovered and impounded by the Ugandan authorities and the IAEA team checked its shielded container’s security and safety.…

BY MATTHEW BRACE
GROUNDBREAKING Australian research has developed a DNA-based method for rapid detection of toxic blue-green algae in fresh water.

This technology provides water quality managers with an early warning system for potential algal blooms.

Consumption of water contaminated with the algae can damage organs and nerve function.…

BY SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYAKA
INDIA’S Sprandi International has launched a new range of sports and leisure footwear called Dome, which are targeted at 18-35 year olds. Available in leather and synthetic uppers with rubber and phylon soles, priced between Rs 900 and Rs 2,300.…

KEITH NUTHALL
THE INTERNATIONAL Finance Corporation, the private sector arm of the World Bank, is lending US$250,000 to help establish a joint stock company owned by Tajik cotton farmers that will help increase yields and reduce debt. The new company, Sugd Agro Serv, will be unique in Tajikistan and will try to overcome key difficulties, such scarce technical assistance and equipment maintenance.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union Council of Ministers (transport) has approved the latest European Commission airport noise directive, accepting European Parliament technical amendments that would make the legislation tougher than originally proposed.

MEP’s had voted for changes time-limiting for 10 years an exemption allowing the noisiest aircraft registered in developing countries to continue operating in Europe, adding that these aeroplanes must be prevented from moving to new routes in the EU.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Space Agency is to use its satellites to check the implementation of environmental treaties, monitoring forest growth under Kyoto, their shrinkage under the Convention to Combat Desertification and the survival of wetlands under the Ramsar Convention.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
SUGAR buyers have been stung by fraudsters offering consignments of non-existent sugar via the Internet, the International Chamber of Commerce has warned. It says that some websites are using “supermarket sales tactics” to advertise cargoes of sugar that never arrive, leaving unwary buyers who pay advances out of pocket.…