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BY ALAN OSBORN

THE COUNTRIES of eastern and southern Africa pose two particularly serious challenges for the Financial Action Task Force (FATF), the world’s leading anti money laundering agency, according to Alain Damais, the organisation’s executive secretary. In an interview with the Money Laundering Bulletin, he also discussed developments in money laundering typologies, the progress made by China towards becoming an FATF member and EU legislation designed to thwart laundering.…

BY MONICA DOBIE

COD stocks in the North Sea may recover slower than anticipated given new evidence in Atlantic Canada whereby despite moratoriums and imposed limits on cod catches, over-fishing in the 1980’s have caused a significantly increased natural mortality rate in the species.…

BY STEVEN SWINDELLS, in Johannesburg

SOUTH Africa’s nurses are faced with a crisis of having to provide front line care to the country’s six million HIV-AIDS sufferers. Political leadership is absent, funding is stretched and morale in the profession has slumped to alarming levels.…

BY MATTHEW BRACE, in Sydney

FOR devotees of Captain Kirk, Dr Spock and the original Star Trek crew, the thrilling world of nanotechnology could sound vaguely familiar. It offers the 21st century a swathe of new products and services, from dirt-repelling cars to ‘thinking’ materials that can change colour automatically.…

BY ALAN OSBORN

Fact box – Andorra

Population of country: 76,875 (2004)

Number of students enrolled at university: 718

Percentage of students native to the country where the university is located: 60%

Percentage of eligible population attending university: 10% (see text)

INTERNVIEW

IT’S something of a surprise to find that a country as small as Andorra has its own university, and perhaps easy to be a little patronising about it.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Commission is signing a memorandum of understanding with the Chinese government, which will see Brussels spend money on helping China’s coal-fired power stations install emissions capture and storage equipment. It is being initialled by European Union (EU) energy Commissioner Andris Piebalgs at the sixth EU-China energy conference, held in Shanghai this week (20-21 Feb).…

BY LUCY JONES

A new kind of executive is cutting an impression in the traditionally male-dominated brewery boardrooms. They are dedicated, tough and often young – and being female, a rare breed in the drinks environment.

As the beer business expands and perceptions change, women are increasingly rising to the top of the industry.…

BY WESLEY GIBBINGS, in Port of Spain, Trinidad

WITH its multiple small jurisdictions, offshore tax havens and proximity to both drug producing countries in Latin America and the United States, the Caribbean has always been a focus of global anti-money laundering efforts.…

BY ALAN OSBORN, in London

AFTER years of uncertainty, a timetable has now been fixed for the elimination of the air conditioning gas HFC 134a from cars sold in the European Union (EU). No, this won’t mean an end to air conditioned autos in Europe any more: what the deal really means is that auto and component makers have been given a generously long time to come up with a new refrigerating agent that doesn’t affect the climate by emitting fluorinating greenhouse gases.…

BY ALAN OSBORN

IN line with the growing recognition in the 1980s of anti-money laundering campaigns as a weapon against terrorism and increased knowledge global drug supply routes, (implicating a number of Latin American countries), governments of the western hemisphere concluded that greater formal co-operation was necessary in fighting dirty money.…