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BY KEITH NUTHALL

THERAPY dogs can be a great nursing aid, but new European Union (EU)-funded research has shown how pure bred dogs can be powerful resource for investigating the sources of disease in human patients. The fact is that dogs suffer from many of the same diseases as their two-legged owners, and it is a lot easier to investigate the genetic causes of such illnesses in pure bred dogs.…

BY ANDY HOLDER

THE INTERNATIONAL gold market may be relatively small, but the metal’s rapid rise in price in the past 18 months to over US dollars USD1,400/oz(up from USD900) has given fraudsters the opportunity they need to tempt investors with some pretty audacious offers to join the ‘gold bug’ club.…

BY Karryn Miller

An innovative foreign higher education park scheme in South Korea is set to proceed, even though the worldwide recession has caused some overseas universities to postpone plans to locate branches at the Songdo Global University Campus.

Full report on University World News site.…

BY ALAN OSBORN and KEITH NUTHALL

UKIP MEP and former European Commission chief accountant Marta Andreasen wants the European Union (EU) to use external audits following claims from a former EU Court of Auditors member that irregularities are swept under the carpet.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

SYSTEMIC advantages given to biofuels in the European Union (EU) through tax breaks and subsidies could take a knock this year, with the European Commission examining their indirect contribution to greenhouse gas production.

Brussels already takes account of their direct effect, through production and use emissions, and land use changes on fields used to grow feedstocks: only biofuels with a proven 35% emissions advantage over fossil fuels qualify for environment-linked tax breaks and handouts, under the EU’s renewable energy directive.…

BY KARRYN MILLER

DESPITE the global economic downturn of the last few years Vietnam’s paint industry has continued to experience growth. According to Vietnam’s General Statistics Office 234,000 tonnes of paint was produced in Vietnam between January 2010 and November 2010.…

BY JOHN PAGNI

NORDICS take their global civic responsibilities seriously – paying more than mere lip-service to requests to cut global warming emissions especially. Finland is a case in point, putting its money where its mouth is when it comes to renewable fuels.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

AN ‘R20’ initiative launched by outgoing California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger to encourage regional governments to reduce greenhouse gas emissions has been backed by six European sub-national administrations. These are the Paris-area Île-de-France Regional Council, Flevoland (the Netherlands), Azores (Portugal), Istria (Croatia), Alba (Romania) and Donetsk (Ukraine).…

BY KARRYN MILLER

DESPITEthe global economic downturn of the last few years Vietnam’s paint industryhas continued to experience growth.According to Vietnam’s General Statistics Office234,000 tonnes of paint was produced in Vietnam between January 2010 and November 2010.In the same period last year production was at 181,200 tonnes.Sales…

BY JULIAN RYALL

JAPAN is being accused of trying to write its own official asbestos testing system into an international standard, because it knows it does not work and so will get its government off the hook for asbestos exposure cases.…