Search Results for: South Africa

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE BANK of Spain has launched an inquiry into the concentration of Euro 500 banknotes in its country, something it fears is due to money laundering, maybe by criminals living in the notorious Costa del Crime, in the south.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Commission has initialled new fishing access deals with two African island nations: São Tomé e Principe, off west Africa, and Madagascar, in the Indian Ocean. The Madagascan deal will last six years from January 2007, and exclusively covers tuna.…

STORIES BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE WORLD Bank has hailed the development opportunities offered by a new on-demand book publishing machine, that prints, cuts and binds up to 20 books an hour, recently launched at the bank’s Washington DC bookstore. The Espresso Book Machine uses digital files to make books listed on a catalogue submitted by publishers or institutions such as universities.…

BY STEVEN SWINDELLS, in Johannesburg

SECURITY specialists and risk assessors will be increasingly in demand within oil majors seeking to tap sub-Saharan Africa’s oil and gas riches in the next few years, experts say, with available resources and political uncertainty growing in an uneasy parallel.…

BY STEVEN SWINDELLS, in Johannesburg

SOUTH Africa and China have entered into a textile and clothing agreement to limit the flood of Chinese imports into Africa’s biggest clothing manufacturing centre.

Initialled during an official visit to South Africa by Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao, it offers a lifeline to the beleaguered South African textile industry, which has shed jobs and factories because of a surge in cheap Chinese imports.…

BY DAVID HAWORTH, in Brussels

WHEN asked about corruption in Belgium by Commercial Crime International, a government official held his nose in the time-honoured gesture. But was he being fair? Some recent high profile cases have brought the nation some lurid publicity.…

STORIES BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) Council of Ministers has approved a programme of tight cooperation with the United Nations’ (UN) International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) on controlling the movement of radioactive materials. Ministers agreed that Euro 7 million of EU money should be spent on the joint work.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THERE is a large and growing list of regional money laundering organisations, with formal or informal links with the Financial Action Task Force (FATF), so a question mark could hang over why the Commonwealth is getting involved in fighting dirty money.…

STORIES BY KEITH NUTHALL

CHRONIC shortages of nurses and doctors in developing countries, especially sub-Saharan Africa, are to be tackled by a new World Health Organisation (WHO)-brokered initiative pumping million of US dollars into training. The Global Health Workforce Alliance will involve organisations such as the International Council of Nurses, Harvard University, the European Commission, Physicians for Human Rights and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.…

BY LIZ HALL, in Alicante

IMPROVEMENTS in Portugal’s ability to detect crime detection, combined with increased vulnerability within the tourist property development arena, mean we could see another Operation White Whale in the next few years, its tip emerging in Portugal rather than Spain, experts warn.…