Search Results for: South Africa

BY PAUL COCHRANE, in Beirut

OVER the last five years the Middle East and North Africa region has firmly joined the global effort to fight money laundering and terrorist financing by setting up national financial intelligence units and a regional watchdog, the Middle East and North Africa Financial Action Task Force (MENA-FATF).…

BY ALAN OSBORN

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LEADING British museums, including the Natural History Museum, the Victoria & Albert and the Tate Modern, are to receive government grants for energy saving and carbon reduction schemes, cultural and learning programmes under a GBPounds 12 million allocation from the Treasury’s Invest to Save Budget scheme.…

STORIES BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE ORGANISATION for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) has predicted that South African food exporters will be well placed to seize business in Europe, should the World Trade Organisation Doha Development Round yield 50% reductions in tariffs, export and production subsidies worldwide.…

BY MONICA DOBIE

A NEW book-on-demand machine – the first of its kind – that prints, cuts and binds up to 20 books in an hour has been launched at the World Bank bookstore, Washington DC. The Espresso Book Machine uses digital files to make books listed on a catalogue submitted by publishers or institutions such as universities.…

STORIES BY KEITH NUTHALL

A DETAILED European Commission report on a key European Union (EU) water research programme has concluded that its scientists lacked the necessary communications strategies to inform the public and industry about their discoveries. Scientists participating in EU-INCO water research schemes "had limited resources to communicate effectively outside their well-established modes of workshops, training seminars, conferences, technical reports, websites and referred articles", said the report, which added: "An equivalent infrastructure to facilitate communication beyond the science community does not exist".…

BY MONICA DOBIE

A PROTOTYPE book-on-demand machine that prints, cuts and binds up to 20 books in an hour has been launched at the World Bank Bookstore in Washington. The Espresso Book Machine uses digital files to "make" books listed on a catalogue.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

The aggressive recruitment of developing country nurses by rich country health services has been attacked by the European Union (EU) development and humanitarian aid Commissioner, who has highlighted its "negative impact" on poor nation health care. The situation, was acute, said Louis Michel, a Belgian, because of the global increase in AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria that is particularly ravaging sub-Saharan Africa.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

FORMER Pentagon deputy Paul Wolfowitz has brought the zeal and energy he applied to invading Iraq to his new job as president of the World Bank. Only this time his target is corruption everywhere, rather than despotism in Iraq, and his weapons are legal and political, not bombs and missiles.…

BY RAGHAVENDRA VERMA, in New Delhi

AN ALL-INDIA topper in school, the best performer in 1980 within his country’s Chartered Accountants’ Institute, and the first to hoist the sail of accountancy-outsourcing to India: Sunil Goel, 49, combines his academic knowledge, business skills and passion for information technology to reap the benefits of globally expanding business.…

BY MONICA DOBIE, in Ottawa

CANADIAN scientists have confirmed a hybrid bear born of a grizzly bear and a polar bear was recently killed by a sports-hunter in Canada’s Northwest Territories (NWT). The bear was a creamy polar bear colour but also had long claws, a humped back, shallow face and brown patches around its eyes and nose: grizzly traits.…