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BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE INTERNATIONAL Energy Agency (IEA) has said in its latest annual report that wind energy still only satisfies 1.2% of power demand in its 20 rich country members, although that proportion is increasing fast in some cases. It said that from 1995 to 2005, the contribution of wind power to national electricity demand rose from 0.2%, with 12 IEA members being in the European Union (EU).…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

TAX authority bosses from the world’s richest countries have banded together to fight international tax avoidance caused by the abuse of increasingly liberal capital movement and trading laws. Tax collectors from more than 30 countries – mostly members of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) – met in Seoul, South Korea to plot against such tax manoeuvres.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE MULTILATERAL Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA), of the World Bank, is guaranteeing US$18.2 million of investments and loans from British and South African investors into building a Kibos Sugar and Allied Industries Limited sugar factory in Kenya.

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BY KEITH NUTHALL

HIGH oil and gas prices have provoked the Association of South East Asian Nations’ (ASEAN) 10 member countries to commit themselves to coordinating their development of renewable energies and solid fuel production, including the adoption of new clean coal technologies.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE INTERNATIONAL Maritime Organisation (IMO) is coordinating a global effort to contain the Mediterranean’s largest oil spill, caused by Israeli bombing of oil storage at the Jiyyeh power plant, south of Beirut. At least 10,000 tonnes of oil have escaped into the sea.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE ASSOCIATION of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) has committed its 10 member countries to coordinate the development of coal mining in the region, including the adoption of new clean coal technologies. The formal commitment, made by a meeting of ASEAN’s energy ministers, was sparked by high oil prices and fears the region could face energy supply problems.…

BY PAUL COCHRANE, in Beirut

CONTRARY to Islamic stereotyping, lingerie sales are extremely healthy in the Middle East, although the brand is not as important as the style.

Indeed, there is lingerie openly on display that in Europe would usually be confined to sex shops.…

BY PAUL COCHRANE, in Beirut

CONTRARY to Islamic stereotyping, lingerie sales are extremely healthy in the Middle East, although the brand is not as important as the style.

Indeed, there is lingerie openly on display that in Europe would usually be confined to sex shops.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

TNE UNITED Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) has called for African local authorities and governments to unite with fuel and automobile companies to fight the growing blight of urban smog in the continent’s cities. Air pollution is becoming a serious problem in these booming urban areas and has been discussed at an August conference ‘Better Air Quality for African Cities’, held at UNEP’s headquarters in Nairobi, Kenya.…

BY MONICA DOBIE, in Ottawa

SCIENTISTS have gathered in Quebec City, Canada, to discuss ways of fighting plant diseases that threaten to destroy cocoa production. At the Cacao Diseases: Important Threats to Chocolate Production Worldwide symposium members of the American Phytopathological Society, Canadian Phytopathological Society, and the Mycological Society of America listened to experts warn of the grave threat to cocoa plants posed by three deadly diseases: black pod, frosty pod, and witches’ broom.…