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BY SUZANNE KOELEGA

AMIDST country-wide political, health and economical reforms, Colombia’s largest airport, El Dorado International Airport, has embarked on a major reconstruction project. Construction has started and should be completed by 2011.

Colombian civil aviation authorities on September 20, 2007, gave the green light for the US$640 million project.…

BY DEIRDRE MASON, in London

WITH European Union (EU) member state ministers agreeing ahead of the summer political break to limit the amount of permitted airborne particulates, questions are being asked about how many more technical demands can be made on combustion engines regarding emissions.…

BY MONICA DOBIE

BRITISH Home Stores’ (BHS) plans to launch outlets in India are being widely reported in the Indian media. The Times of India has claimed that BHS owner Philip Green will open stores in both Mumbai and Delhi (maybe this year) through a franchise agreement with Dubai-based Indian businessman L K Pagarani.…

BY MARK ROWE

WEATHER-resistant and anti-corrosion coatings and sealants are being developed with the aid of nanotechnology that will significantly enhance the lifetime operation of buildings and property across the Asia-Pacific region and beyond. Most of the developments are expected to be particularly welcome in the Asia-Pacific region, where the hot and humid climate imposes a more onerous regime on paints and coatings.…

BY ALAN OSBORN, in London

THE EUROPEAN Commission in Brussels has launched a detailed inquiry into the payment of a grant of around US$7.5 million by the Flemish regional government in Belgium to support training at the auto company Volvo Cars Gent.…

BY MARK GODFREY, in Beijing

THE CHINA National Publications Import and Export Corporation, which controls imports of books, imported 50,000 English language copies of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. The company usually orders about 100 copies of popular English language books.…

BY ANDREW CAVE

BIOFUELS have generated earnest debate ever since German inventor Rudolph Diesel ran the world’s first diesel engine on peanut oil back in 1894, but suddenly there is a biofuels boom that’s moving global markets.
World economies are in a race to find alternatives to fossil fuels and turning crops such as wheat and corn into ethanol or oilseed rape, soya, or palm oil into biodiesel is having an impact on farmers, manufacturer and industrial producers worldwide.…

BY ANDREW CAVE

THE DEVELOPMENT of biofuels and their impact on food crops has generated debate since Germany’s Rudolph Diesel ran the world’s first diesel engine on peanut oil in 1894.
However, now a biofuels boom is moving global markets and one result is commodity crop price inflation.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

INTERNATIONAL Maritime Organisation (IMO) specialists have raised environmental concerns about proposals to dump tons of fine iron particles in the sea, to grow algal blooms consuming carbon dioxide. Because these microscopic organisms would also eat the iron, when they die, the mineral’s weight would sink them to the ocean depths, taking the CO2 with them.…

BY MONICA DOBIE, in Ottawa

COMPANIES fighting commercial crime are always on the lookout for new resources and tools to deal with the problem. Where better to look than the world’s best universities in the USA? Monica Dobie reports.

THE UNIVERSITY of Maryland’s Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice is a national and international leader in research into crime and justice.…