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BY ALAN OSBORN,ANCA GURZU and KEITH NUTHALL

THE GLOBAL trade in illicit tobacco is huge and growing and a significant source of dirty money worldwide. Tobacco multinational British American Tobacco (BAT) estimates that 6.3% of cigarettes worldwide are illicit products (either counterfeit, smuggled or sold domestically on the black market), which makes 332 billion sticks, and that is a lot of cigarettes.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

OFFSHORE oil rig builder Singapore-based Keppel Corp has won a US$200 million contract to build a semi-submersible drilling tender assist rig for PetroVietnam. With delivery planned for 2011’s fourth quarter, this would be Vietnam’s first such rig. Keppel praised its "resilience and suitability" for many "challenging environments."…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

CORRUPTION in Greece is now considered as bad as in Romania and Bulgaria – European Union (EU) member states investigated by the European Commission over graft. Greece’s slide from 57th in last year’s Transparency International (TI) corruption perception index to 71st in this year’s report will concern its new left-wing PASOK government.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

ONE of the lynchpins of the European Union’s (EU) single market is its public procurement rules, which try to ensure pubic authorities, and some utilities and transmission operators, openly tender for their major purchases. The aim is that all EU suppliers have a fair crack of the whip in offering them goods and services.…

BY ALAN OSBORN

ANDREA Perrone talks of when he was a child, and his father – a lawyer and the CEO of Brioni Retail – used to bring home customers from South America for lunch or dinner at the family’s residence in Abruzzi, Italy.…

BY KARRYN MILLER, KEITH NUTHALL and ALAN OSBORN

DESPITE following the global trend of increasing anti-smoking campaigns and placing stronger warning labels on cigarette packets, tobacco sales in South Korea are not declining. In fact, the industry has seen a slow but steady rise in total sales over the last few years.…

BY WILLIAM BARNES

IN Southeast Asia confectionery is important, perhaps deceptively so.

"No Asiatic regime practices the art of confectionery," opined Richard Sterling in his robust book, "The Fearless Diner."

Sterling may have been to too many Chinese-style banquets, where an abrupt finish is common.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

AN INTERNATIONAL research project has shown immunity to malaria can be developed by patients inoculated with intact parasites whilst being treated with the common anti-malarial chloroquine. This kills the parasites towards the end of their life in the human body, apparently giving immune systems enough time to develop resistance.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE GLOBAL body helping to fight maritime pirates has advised the paint and coatings industry to look hard at their supply routes and prepare contingency plans in case cargoes sail close to global piracy hotspots. At present, two problem areas stand out: off Somalia, in and out of the Gulf of Aden to the Red Sea; and to a lesser extent off western Africa, especially near the Niger Delta.…

BY MUNZA MUSHTAQ

NURSING of course is a profession that expands beyond cold medical science – it is about care. It is the prime motivation behind the wish of Pushpa Ramyani Zoysa, 42, a senior nurse at Sri Lanka’s leading government-owned 3,000 bed National Hospital of Sri Lanka, in Colombo, to give her workplace a more homely atmosphere.…