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MIDDLE EAST LUXURY LEATHER GOOD DEMAND INDIA PAKISTAN PRODUCTION
BY PAUL COCHRANE, in Beirut
STRONG demand for leather luggage in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) is lining the pockets of tanners in Italy, Pakistan and Thailand.
According to a recent global online survey by marketing data company AC Nielsen, the UAE ranks among the top five countries worldwide for luxury branded luggage bags.…
TRADITIONAL MEDICINES FEATURE TAIWAN SOUTHERN AFRICA
BY STEVEN SWINDELLS, in Johannesburg, South Africa and DAVID HAWORTH, in Taiwan
TRADITIONAL health care systems do not always get a good press, being accused of incorporating superstition and poor medical practice. To some western public health advocates, they are akin to bringing back the leach.…
SOUTH AFRICAN NURSING BRITAIN RECRUITMENT HIT
BY STEVEN SWINDELLS, in Johannesburg
ONGOING recruitment of South African nurses to the UK is pushing South Africa’s already hard pressed public health system close to the brink of collapse and putting patient care at risk, the country’s lead nursing union and health experts have warned.…
CHINA NUCLEAR INDUSTRY EXPANSION PLANS - POLITICAL CONCERNS
BY DAVID EIMER, in Beijing
"Build nuclear power, enrich the people", proclaim the billboards at China’s Qinshan nuclear facility in the south-eastern province of Zhejiang. Qinshan, a 120 kilometres south of Shanghai, is the centre of China’s nuclear sector and home to five of the country’s nine operational reactors.…
ILO PAKISTAN LOOM AWARD NO CHILD LABOUR
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE INVENTOR of a new ergonomic carpet loom reducing Pakistan weavers’ work injuries, making them less likely to force their children to work, has been honoured internationally. Saeed Awan, Pakistan’s Centre for the Improvement of Working Conditions and Environment director won the Tech Museum Prize, of the Tech Museum of Innovation in San Jose, California for socially beneficial technological advances.…
INDIA FEATURE - HAWALA, BRIBERY, CORRUPTION, CASH-FOR-PARLIAMENTARY QUESTIONS
BY RAGHAVENDRA VERMA, in New Delhi
INDIA’S opening-up as a free market economy, along with the adoption of new technology, reformed laws, and the presence of vigilant media are curbing many commercial crimes in the world’s largest democracy, but criminals still find ways to make a dishonest Rupee.…
INDIA FEATURE - HAWALA, BRIBERY, CORRUPTION, CASH-FOR-PARLIAMENTARY QUESTIONS
BY RAGHAVENDRA VERMA, in New Delhi
INDIA’S opening-up as a free market economy, along with the adoption of new technology, reformed laws, and the presence of vigilant media are curbing many commercial crimes in the world’s largest democracy, but criminals still find ways to make a dishonest Rupee.…
ALTERNATIVE REMITTANCE SYSTEMS MONEY LAUNDERING - INDIA - TERRORIST FINANCE CONCERN
BY ALAN OSBORN
ONLY comparatively recently have the world’s anti money laundering agencies come to grips with alternative remittance systems (ARS) and even today the scale of the systems and the degree of infiltration by criminals is still not fully known.…
GEOGRAPHICAL INDICATIONS REGISTER WTO NEGOTIATIONS FAILURE
BY KEITH NUTHALL
IT is not often that participants in international negotiations admit that they have failed, but such an admission has come from diplomats involved in the World Trade Organisation (WTO) talks on creating a register for wine and spirit geographical designations.…
UN OIL FOR FOOD REPORT IRAQ SADDAM HUSSEIN KICKBACKS - STEEL, ALUMINIUM, COPPER SUPPLIERS
BY KEITH NUTHALL
FERROUS and non-ferrous metal companies paid together millions of dollars in kickbacks to the toppled Saddam Hussein regime, the Independent Inquiry Committee into the UN Iraq Oil for Food programme scandal has claimed. More than 150 suppliers of ferrous metal products ranging from carbon steel plates, steel coil, steel joists, galvanised steel cores, steel bars, steel pipes, fabricated steel and others are named in the report, as are around 50 suppliers of aluminium, copper and lead.…