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BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has tried to make up for its failure to strike fishing access deal with Morocco by forging an improved agreement with its north African neighbour Mauritania which Brussels claims its “the most important with a third country” that it has made.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
OFFICIALS at the World Trade Organisation have been asked to draw up a detailed report on how the Agreement on Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights, (TRIPs), should be amended to take account of e-commerce.

The proposal was tabled by the Swiss government at last week’s meeting of the WTO’s TRIPs Council.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
OFFICIALS at the World Trade Organisation have been asked to draw up a detailed report on how the Agreement on Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights, (TRIPs), should be amended to take account of e-commerce.

The proposal was tabled by the Switzerland at last week’s meeting of the WTO’s TRIPs Council.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE INDONESIAN navy has recovered a stolen oil tanker from pirates, who seized it near the Shell refinery at Port Dickson, the Malacca Straits. The International Maritime Bureau – part of the International Chamber of Commerce – provided important information about the ship, via its Piracy Reporting Centre in Malaysia.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE UN Office for Drug Control and Crime Prevention (ODCCP) has called for a balance to be struck worldwide between privacy rights and banking secrecy, to slow global criminal cash flows. Its appeal came in a statement released for a conference on “Illegal Economy and Money Laundering,” in St.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
ONLINE bookseller giant Amazon.com, is stirring things up in the Canadian Internet book market, by announcing it will lower shipping costs for Canadian customers, effectively stiffening up competition for the future Chapters-Indigo combine, the country’s largest book retailer.…

KEITH NUTHALL
THE FIRST session of the United Nations’ Forum on Forests has begun work at UN headquarters in New York, with a brief to identify a five-year agenda of discussions and develop the means of implementing any international agreements on forests that might be struck by the forum in future.…

BY SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYAKE
THE AIRPORTS Authority of India has granted a 10-year licence to an international consortium to provide ground and passenger handling services at four of the country’s busiest airports, namely New Delhi, Mumbai (Bombay), Chennai (Madras) and Trivandrum.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
AN ACROSS-THE-BOARD reduction in EU fishing activity lasting for several years and including a cut of 40 to 50 per cent in cod and hake catches is to be formally proposed by the European Commission in an effort to safeguard the future of the fishing sector.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
CANADIAN furriers are expecting international demand for fur garments will drive Canadian exports up 10-15 per cent this year, to more than CAN$350-million according to the country’s National Post newspaper.

Alan Herscovici, executive vice-president of the Fur Council of Canada, said fur does not have the negative connotations it used to.…