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BY KEITH NUTHALL
UNTIL now the human eye has reigned supreme in textile and clothing companies wanting to carefully check dye colour quality in their products, but that, claims the European Space Agency (ESA), is now ending. It has helped to develop an artificial eye, now being sold to textile companies to help them monitor dying quality, reducing wastage.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE COUNCIL of the Bars and Law Societies of Europe is pressing the European Commission to delay proposals to reform for a third time, European Union (EU) anti-money laundering legislation. It fears it would further erode guarantees of client confidentiality, already attacked by the EU’s second money laundering directive, which for instance insists lawyers tip off authorities if a client requests information on laundering cash.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Investment Bank (EIB) is planning to lend around Euro 40 million to Germany’s Impfstoffwerk Dessau-Tornau to help it build a new research and development building and a new production facility for virus vaccines. The loan would also part-fund the reconstruction of a filling unit, the expansion of existing cooling, storage and vaccine production facilities plus investments in equipment.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
TASMANIA’S metals industry is enjoying a welcome resurgence, with non-ferrous metals leading the charge, nickel, copper and tin being the main players. Miners in the Australia island state are reluctant to call it a ‘metals rush’ but it is the most significant set of resource finds for more than 100 years in the island.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
*Copper

Copper dropped in production between 2003-04 and the previous year. However, the Mt Lyell Copper Mine in Queenstown has deemed copper priced sufficiently to continue its development of a decline to the next production level. Copper prices made significant gains throughout 2003-4, notably in the second half of the financial year and reached the A$4,000 (UK Pounds 1,600) mark by June, a price not achieved since 1995.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
A MICHIGAN, USA, company recently gave employees a choice: quit smoking or lose your job. And although this could be considered an effective way to fight nicotine addiction, public health officials do not see it that way. Four employees from Weyco, a firm that manages benefit plans for workers on behalf of other companies were shown the door in January after refusing to take a nicotine test on whether they had smoked since a deadline of January 1, this year.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
AN AMERICAN company from Michigan recently gave his employees a choice: quit smoking or lose your job. Four employees from Weyco, a firm that manages benefit plans for workers on behalf of other companies, were sacked in January after refusing to take a nicotine test on whether they had smoked since a deadline of January 1, this year.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
FEW industries are as touchy about their image as the American gambling business but given the way the industry is portrayed by Hollywood this is understandable. Whether or not people are right to hold the industry in such suspicion these days is debatable.…

BY MATTHEW BRACE
SINGAPORE’S economy is rejuvenating after the horrors of early 2004 when the threat of terrorism (both internationally and closer to home in South East Asia), and then the SARS virus hit the city state hard, shrinking demand for construction and hence the amount of money to be made by the coatings sector.…

BY MATTHEW BRACE
TASMANIA’S non-ferrous metals industry is enjoying a welcome resurgence with strong production targets for the next five to ten years.

Miners in Australia’s island state are reluctant to call it a “metals rush” but it is the most significant set of resource finds for more than 100 years.…