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HEINEKEN



BY ALAN OSBORN
THE DUTCH brewer Heineken is to join forces with Bayerische BrauHolding of Germany under a deal approved today (Friday) by the European Commission.

Heineken is active throughout the 15 EU countries in the brewing and distribution of beer and other beverages.…

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WHO - MEDICAL PUBLISHING



BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE WORLD Health Organisation has announced an agreement with the world’s six largest medical journal publishers, where they will allow medical schools and research institutions to access their scientific information for free or at reduced rates.

Blackwell, Elsevier Science, the Harcourt Worldwide STM Group, Wolters Kluwer International Health & Science, Springer Verlag and John Wiley have agreed to grant almost 1,000 of these institutions preferential Internet access to their journals for at least three years from January 2002.…

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FOOT AND MOUTH LATEST



BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union has been pressing its trading partners to loosen the emergency import restrictions that they imposed on EU meat products at the height of the foot and mouth crisis, because of the clear evidence that the outbreak is under control.…

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BULGARIA



BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Bank for Reconstruction and Development has drawn up plans to lend US $5 million to Bulgarian gold and copper mine Navan Chelopech A.D., to improve productivity and efficiency, “by bringing the mine up to international operating and environmental standards.”…

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BULGARIA



BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Bank for Reconstruction and Development has drawn up plans to lend US $5 million to Bulgarian gold and copper mine Navan Chelopech A.D., to improve productivity and efficiency, “by bringing the mine up to international operating and environmental standards.”…

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OECD REPORT



BY KEITH NUTHALL
BRITISH schools have featured in an international study by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), which highlighted good practice examples of how sensitive building design can help education.

The report, Designs for Learning: 55 Exemplary Educational Facilities, looked at how technological change in learning techniques – such as the Internet – and in environmental requirements – such as energy efficiency – has been incorporated in new schools, universities and colleges.…

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FAST-FOOD POWER



BY KATE REW
MANAGERS at Los Angeles International Airport, (LAX), are testing an unusual way of generating electricity – recycling food left over by its hungry, but distracted passengers. Their discarded burgers, chicken-bits, salads and tacos are taken to a waste-to-energy plant and electricity is fed in to the local power grid.…

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E LEARNING CONFERENCES



BY KEITH NUTHALL
A NUMBER of international conferences on delivering education via the Internet are being staged over the next few weeks. They include:

*CONNECT/I*EARN Conference, Capetown, South Africa, hosted by Western Cape Schools’ Network and SchoolNet SA. E mail Anne-Marie Ducker at a.ducker@uel.ac.uk.…

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MINAS DE RIO TINTO



BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has opened a formal investigation into state aid provided by the Spanish government for the restructuring of copper, gold and silver mining company Minas de Rio Tinto SAL, in Huelva.

In 2000, Madrid guaranteed loans of ESP 1,500 million, (Euro 9 million), which were linked to a restructuring plan to turn the company around.…

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EIB VOLKSWAGEN



BY MONICA DOBIE
THE EUROPEAN Investment Bank (EIB) has announced that it is lending US$40 million to Volkswagen Argentina S.A., a subsidiary of Volkswagen AG, to support investment for the production of gearboxes for passenger cars in its plant located in Cordoba, Argentina.…

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