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BY KEITH NUTHALL
A COMPREHENSIVE scheme to boost the efficiency and fairness of the Philippines’ judicial system is to receive a US$21.9 million World Bank loan. The money will help finance a Filipino Supreme Court’s judicial reform programme, improving a judiciary that has, said the bank, suffered from caseload “delays, corruption, weak administrative structures, outdated technology and deficient facilities, and underdeveloped human resources.”…

BY SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYAKE
HINDUSTAN Lever has been trying to persuade Indian parents to buy Multiaction Surf, by offering the means to avoid washing their children’s clothes altogether – a foreign school scholarship. The slightly ironic promotional scheme ‘Colour Your Future’ asks children to enter a competition by painting a picture based on what they wants to achieve in adulthood; paintings have to be titled: “I want to be…” Hindustan Lever has been offering fixed deposits of between INDRupees 100,000 (US$2,173) and 500,000 (US$10,863) for zonal and national winners, respectively.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL in Paris, ALAN OSBORN in London, MARK ROWE in Singapore, ED PETERS and DON GASPER in Hong Kong, RICHARD HURST in Johannesburg, MONICA DOBIE and PHILIP FINE in Montreal, MATTHEW BRACE in Brisbane and ALEX SMAILES in Port of Spain.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A EUROPEAN Union funded research project has led to the creation of practical guidelines for minimising human injuries or deaths and property damage caused by snow avalanches in mountainous areas. The CADZIE scheme has developed advice on safer development zoning based on geographical, meteorological and historical data and model building regulations.…

BY PHILIP FINE

INTERNATIONAL drinks companies that market flavoured malt beverages (FMB) have ceased overtly targeting underage American consumers, according to a recently released federal government report that praises the efforts of nine major producers for having improved the placement of their advertisements.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union Council of Ministers has given the European Commission authority to conclude a RURATOM nuclear energy cooperation agreement with Uzbekistan. The deal would focus on cooperation in research projects into nuclear electricity generation operations, actions to improve the safety of power plants, the trade in nuclear materials and the provision of nuclear fuel cycle services.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
GERMANY, Sweden and Denmark must do more to prevent water run-off from their rivers and coasts adding excess nutrients to the western Baltic Sea, said an international research project into the deaths of marine wildlife in 2002. The Helsinki Commission – tasked with investigating the natural disaster – concluded higher levels of nutrients from agriculture, urban wastewater and air pollution poured into the sea after heavy rain and snow.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union Council of Ministers has given the European Commission authority to conclude a nuclear energy cooperation agreement with Uzbekistan, which would be formally struck with the European Atomic Energy Community (EURATOM). The deal would focus on cooperation in research projects into nuclear electricity generation operations, actions to improve the safety of power plants, the trade in nuclear materials and the provision of nuclear fuel cycle services.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
WITH European Union ministers poised this autumn to choose their preferred site to host the international thermonuclear experimental reactor (ITER), an independent EU assessment of the two key EU contenders has officially concluded that both the French site Cadarache, and the Spain’s Vandellós “would be likely to win the international site selection”.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
AN ACTION plan designed to further spur growth in the key broadband and third-generation (3G) mobile sectors has been unveiled by the European Commission and will be presented to the European Union’s (EU) spring summit in Brussels next month.…