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BY JULIAN RYALL

CORE values have served Japan’s Asics Corporation well down the years, and are continuing to do so at a time when the world is trying to come to grips with the worst global economic crisis in living memory.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

EUROPEAN Union (EU) heads of government have agreed to establish a new Europe-wide system of financial supervision, imposing arbitration on national regulators disagreeing over controls of cross-border banks and other financial organisations. The decision follows tough bargaining at Friday’s EU summit in Brussels between Britain – which wanted to minimise EU controls over its financial sector – and France and Germany, which favoured a strong European financial watchdog.…

BY ALAN OSBORN

FACED with a global recession caused partly by commercial financial crime, governments have been pushed into taking action against tax evasion in recent months by ending the practice of banking secrecy. Is it the end of the road for tax havens as protected jurisdictions where illicit transactions can hide?…

By Leah Germain

New research from may lead to the early detection of preeclampsia, a condition that threatens eight million pregnant women’s livers and kidneys worldwide each year, says a study released by the University of Auckland.

Its researchers examined blood samples from pregnant women who have been pregnant for at least 20 weeks and pinpointed a set of 33 proteins recorded at abnormal levels, which may serve in tests as an indicator in the blood of pregnant women who are at risk of developing preeclampsia.…

By Paul Cochrane

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.…

BY PAUL COCHRANE

TURKEY’S bid to become part of the European Union (EU) has resulted in tougher banking and financial regulations, in addition to a strengthened financial intelligence unit at the Central Bank of the Republic of Turkey. But while the country has ramped up its counterterrorist financing initiatives to thwart funding to Kurdish separatist groups such as the PKK, Turkey’s position as a crossroads between the East and West has resulted in significant challenges to rein in the surge in narcotics trafficking and organised crime.…

BY RAGHAVENDRA VERMA

STANDFIRST

The Indian clothing sector is emerging from its traditional image as an outsourcing-hub image and establishing its own brands that sell modern design and high quality garments in the international market. A resurgent economy still growing during the current global economic downturn and the official encouragement of entrepreneurial freedom have brought forward talented designers to challenge established names in the business.…

BY ALAN OSBORN

THERE is an increasing body of law associated with money laundering regulations worldwide and where there is law, there is – of course – lawyers. So to what extent is an anti-money laundering cadre of legal specialists emerging around the world.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE IMMINENT threat of heavy USA tariffs on many European Union (EU) confectionery exports has been lifted, after Washington and Brussels struck a preliminary deal over the long-running beef hormone dispute. Retaliatory duties such as 100% duties on filled chocolate, chewing gum, raspberry and lingonberry jams were to have been levied this month (May), but have now been suspended, along with other EU food products earmarked for new tariffs, such as fruit juices from Austria, Cyprus, France and Poland.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

WHEN critics of Britain’s successful war to retake the Falklands Islands from an invading Argentina claimed the military action was about oil and gas reserves, few paid them much heed. After all, Buenos Aires had committed an act of naked aggression against a small remote community that wanted to remain British.…