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BY SUZANNE KOELEGA

AMIDST country-wide political, health and economical reforms, Colombia’s largest airport, El Dorado International Airport, has embarked on a major reconstruction project. Construction has started and should be completed by 2011.

Colombian civil aviation authorities on September 20, 2007, gave the green light for the US$640 million project.…

BY MONICA DOBIE

OUTPATIENTS requiring electronic health monitoring can rest easy at least from a fashion stand point because Australian researchers have invented a system that allows for people to alternate smart garments – so that they won’t dare be seen in the same smart t-shirt that measures blood pressure two days in a row.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE OUTCOME of the political struggle about this month’s (Sept) release of a comprehensive proposed package of European Union (EU) energy directives and regulations insisting on some unbundling between power producers and transmitters will test the EU’s ability to threaten core interests of national governments.…

BY MARK GODFREY, in Yunnan province, China

"MEDIOCRITY and non-merit are wrong!" The resolute call to excellence in Chinese characters greets visitors the lobby of the twenty floor hemispherical office tower to which visitors to Yuxi Hongta cigarette plant.

Run by the state-owned Hongta group, the Yuxi plant hires a staff of 2,500 to produce an annual 2.5 million cases of cigarettes, including iconic local brands like Yuxi, Hongmei and Hongtashan, as well as Imperial Tobacco’s West brand.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE WORLD Bank is to give US$200,000 grants to up to 20 companies supplying non-fuel lamps to regions of sub-Saharan Africa without electricity. It aims to encourage their populations to stop using kerosene lamps, which the bank deems costly and inefficient.…

INTERVIEW – TONY NOWELL, ZESPRI.

BY KARRYN CARTELLE

THE WORLD leader in kiwifruit – New Zealand’s Zespri International – appeared on the scene in 1997, a whole 45 years after the first kiwifruit were exported from its home country’s shores. But despite such a late start the company has experienced rapid growth, securing the dominant position in the kiwifruit marketplace.…

BY PAUL COCHRANE, in Beirut

SAUDI Arabia, the Middle East’s largest economy and a major political player internationally, has been linked to terrorist financing, but despite AML and CTF measures put in place by the kingdom, very little is known about the country’s implementation and adherence to regulations.…

BY BILL CORCORAN, at Lake Kariba, Zambia

THE SIGHT of thousands of decomposing semi-submerged trees protruding from its murky waters is an eerie clue to the traumatic origins of southern Africa’s Lake Kariba, a 200km long manmade reservoir wedged between Zimbabwe and Zambia.…

BY NICHOLAS PICKARD, at Bondi Beach, Sydney

SUNNY beaches are central to Australia’s ‘lucky country’ quality of life. But even the most laid-back Australians have sometimes worried about great white sharks swimming towards their sandy strands. The chances of encountering a great white are extremely rare, so what do Australians say about their experiences of one of the world’s most feared species?…

BY RACHEL JONES, in Caracas

THE OSCAR Machado Zuloaga Airport (SVCS), (NOTE – SPELLING IS CORRECT) also known as the Caracas Airport, sits on a mesa (flat-topped hill) in Charallave, a 45-minute drive from Venezuela’s capital of Caracas. The privately owned airport, flanked by manicured boulevards, provides a tranquil home for about 500 small planes.…