Search Results for: South Africa

BY MATTHEW BRACE, in Sydney

IT might sound like science fiction but many of the most exciting and useful advances emerging from the super-science of nanotechnology are real. Nanotechnology is a relatively new approach that deals with understanding and applying the properties of matter at the nano-scale, where a small molecule measures one nano-metre (one billionth of metre) in length, or about 1/80,000 of the diameter of a human hair.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

DEVELOPING countries are failing to exploit the demand for cultural products, says a UNESCO Institute for Statistics report, which notes Britain, the USA and China produced 40% of the world’s cultural trade products in 2002, while Latin America and Africa together accounted for less than 4%.…

BY WESLEY GIBBINGS, in Port of Spain, Trinidad

WITH its multiple small jurisdictions, offshore tax havens and proximity to both drug producing countries in Latin America and the United States, the Caribbean has always been a focus of global anti-money laundering efforts.…

BY ALAN OSBORN

IN line with the growing recognition in the 1980s of anti-money laundering campaigns as a weapon against terrorism and increased knowledge global drug supply routes, (implicating a number of Latin American countries), governments of the western hemisphere concluded that greater formal co-operation was necessary in fighting dirty money.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE WORLD’S senior anti-money laundering body, the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) is to focus on Africa, following a meeting of the international organisation, in Cape Town last week. FATF members approved a strategy where its officials and those of the Eastern and Southern Africa Money Laundering Group "work together more aggressively to combat money laundering and terrorist financing in the region".…

BY STEVEN SWINDELLS, in Johannesburg

SOUTH Africa’s nurses are faced with a crisis of having to provide front line care to the country’s six million HIV-AIDS sufferers. Political leadership is absent, funding is stretched and morale in the profession has slumped to alarming levels.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

JAPAN and South Korea have struck a deal solving a long-running World Trade Organisation (WTO) dispute over Japanese restrictions on imports of South Korean laver seaweed. Seoul has argued that Japan’s import quotas of this product break Tokyo’s WTO commitments under the 1994 General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT).…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

BIRD flu has reached Africa, the Office International des Épizooties (OIE), the world animal health organisation, has confirmed, citing an outbreak in Kaduna state, northern Nigeria involving 46,000 cases. The news poses a dismal outlook for efforts to contain the disease given sub-Saharan Africa’s shambolic regulatory and veterinary controls, and international health workers will inevitably fear the worst.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE PRESIDENT of Canadian auto manufacturer supplies giant Magna International has welcomed the European Commission’s approval of its purchase of German roof system manufacturer CTS Fahrzeug-Dachsysteme GmbH (CTS) from sports car maker Porsche. Brussels has imposed no conditions on the deal, which it concluded would not harm competition in the European Union (EU).…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE UNITED Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) has announced that from January 1, all vehicle fuels sold in sub-Saharan Africa have been lead-free, with the last country to abandon lead being the region’s most developed – South Africa.

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