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BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE SIZE of the planned international investment in Ukraine’s gas distribution system has been revealed in a European Bank for Reconstruction & Development (EBRD) memorandum: up to US$3 billion maybe pumped in. Money would start flowing with a US$300 million working capital loan from the EBRD for purchasing gas, repayable after this winter heating season.…

BY WILL ROBERTSON, MARK ROWE and KEITH NUTHALL

THE ROBUST nature of the southeast Asian palm oil industry has been illustrated by the way the market has remained strong despite both the global recession and the arrival of weather phenomenon El Nino this year and its attendant drought conditions.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL, LEAH GERMAIN and BELINDA BLESSED

THERE are two key issues in the training of nurses: one is making training interesting and compelling; and the other, making it accessible to all. Because of this, the development of virtual reality training using virtual worlds such as the current market leader Second Life is attracting interest.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE PRACTICE of generals and colonels playing war games to simulate an attack on an enemy is well known – but Internet game playing is now being introduced into medical training via the Second Life virtual world.

Imperial College London has started using the popular web system – where people live their lives through digital representations of themselves called avatars – for teaching medical students.…

BY DEIRDRE MASON

IT was to be the booster rocket for the European hydrogen and fuel cell industry – a Euro 1 billion package to support development of the technology and putting it on the market. Launched on last October in Brussels, the Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Joint Technology Initiative (JTI) linked the European Commission, European industrialists and the research community to a common goal of mass-marketing these promising technologies before 2020.…

BY ALAN OSBORN, in London; RUSSELL BERMAN, in Washington DC; JULIAN RYALL, in Tokyo; RAGHAVENDRA VERMA, in New Delhi; BY WANG FANGQING, in Shanghai; EMMA JACKSON, in Ottawa; KARRYN MILLER; and KEITH NUTHALL

THE AUTOMOBILE sector maybe one of the most globally integrated manufacturing industries on the planet, but national governments (or continental bodies in Europe) still hold sway regarding regulation.…

BY ANDREW CAVE

WHO regulates money laundering at the stock exchange listings of companies around the world? If this is a beguilingly simplistic question, then the answer is anything but.

The reply depends not only upon which country one is referring to but also on which companies list in which market and in which stock exchange sector.…

BY PHILIPPA JONES, in Paris; LEE ADENDORFF, in Lucca, Italy; KARRYN MILLER, in Tokyo; and LUCY JONES, in Dallas

IT almost seems commonsense to say that an industry providing such a human product as clothing has to take account of cultural sensibilities in target markets.…

BY DEIRDRE MASON

UNDER- and over-invoicing is an effective means of money laundering that is proving to be a complex nut to crack for the agencies charged with tracking down fraud and its proceeds. Money launderers can move large sums between countries by undervaluing exports to a foreign destination or by overvaluing imports.…

By Paul Cochrane, in Beirut

June has been a month of elections in the Middle East. As happens every now and again in a region pretty thin on democracy and heavy on dynastic rule, there are elections that matter. The outcome of the Lebanese and Iranian elections fall in this rather rare category, with the Lebanese result retaining a status quo the West is happy with, while the Iranian 'result' is further souring relations with the US and Europe.

For despite being on either side of the Middle East, with Beirut and Tehran being as geographically far apart as London and Rome, the results play into the region’s fractious politics. The common ground is Israel and the Iranian-backed Hezbollah.…