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BY ALAN OSBORN, in London

EUROPEAN and US regulatory bodies have agreed to co-operate to develop common testing and engineering standards for mobile air conditioning systems such as those used in automobiles. Because some of the gases used in these systems, such as HFC 134a, are far more lethal to the environment than carbon dioxide, the European Union (EU) has agreed to start phasing them out in 2011 and stop using them in new autos from 2017.…

BY STEVEN SWINDELLS, in Johannesburg

CENTRAL bankers, drug barons, warlords, corporate bosses and small town crooks in Africa are all washing their money despite attempts by governments and international law enforcement agencies to bring them to book. But financial crime has never been as lucrative as now on the world’s poorest continent.…

BY ALAN OSBORN

FACT BOX

Number of students enrolled at university: 9,608

Population of Malta: 399,867

Fulltime foreign students at university: 8%

Percentage of Maltese 18-year olds in tertiary education: 20%

INTERVIEW

A UK student would feel instantly at home in the University of Malta which has a distinctive British personality and bears an aura of historic durability not found in any of the others in this series.…

BY DEIRDRE MASON, in London

THE EUROPEAN Union has extended Euro 18.5 million trial running fuel cell buses in seven out of nine European locations for a further year, to gain more data for developing hydrogen technology under its HyFLEET: CUTE (clean urban transport for Europe) project.…

BY ALAN OSBORN

THE EUROPEAN Medicines Agency (EMEA) stands ready to help pharmaceutical companies in the development and marketing of new drugs in an effort to halt and reverse the decline in the number of new medicines being brought to the world market.…

BY PAUL COCHRANE, in Cairo

FOREIGN investment in Egypt is on the rise, spurred on by new legislation, deregulation and a pro-business Cabinet under Prime Minister Ahmed Nazif, although there are still plenty of pitfalls for the unwary and unprepared.

Indeed, the door has only recently opened wide to overseas investors, with Egypt in 1997 allowing foreign companies 100% ownership of Egyptian companies, the repatriation of dividends and tax exemptions.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Union’s (EU) competition commissioner has indicated she could push for regulatory reform to improve competition in EU energy markets, in parallel with legal enforcement action using existing rules. Neelie Kroes highlighted "bundling of generation, supply, pipelines, grids, and distribution (as) at the heart of the current EU energy market failure."…

BY JANE MOIR, in Hong Kong

CONSTRUCTION is on the up, people are eagerly buying homes, cars are being churned out at a rapid pace and the 2008 Beijing Olympics are just around the corner. The demand for paint and coatings in China should never have been better.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

GOVERNMENTS should make market-based environmental policies, such as taxes and emissions trading, are simple and reasonably priced, to ensure their success, a new European Environment Agency (EEA) report has said. Trading schemes, in particular, work better with "bigger markets and more participants", says the report, ‘Using the market for cost-effective environment policy – market-based instruments in Europe’.…

BY DEIRDRE MASON, in London

THE POLITICAL institutions of the European Union (EU) are debating how to join an international system that would protect EU manufacturers’ design rights across a wide range of non-European countries in one simple operation. In an initiative that could help auto manufacturers secure the creative aspects of their vehicle design from plagiarism, the European Commission wants to link the EU’s existing Community Design system, (which protects manufacturers’ designs within the 25 EU member states), to a global design registration system run by the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO), a UN agency.…