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BY KEITH NUTHALL
The UN Environment Programme says that within five years most African countries will be close to phasing out leaded petrol. Egypt, Libya, Mauritius and Sudan – are already lead-free, to be joined this year by Morocco, Reunion and Tunisia.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE MULTILATERAL Investment Guarantee Agency, of the World Bank, is providing investment guarantees worth US$72 million to South Africa’s Sasol for developing natural gas fields in Mozambique, including building a central processing facility and an 865 km cross-border gas pipeline.…

BY SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYAKA
INDIA’S Venkatesh Coke and Power Ltd. has announced that it has secured a sales contract for selling coke to Germany’s RAG from its planned 110MW power station in Trincomalee, Sri Lanka, which will import 1.2 million tonnes of coking coal per year, mostly low ash coal from Australia.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) Council of Ministers has banned all imports of bovine fresh meat into the EU from Paraguay, because of alleged serious problems regarding the south Americans’ control and supervision of Foot and Mouth Disease outbreaks in their country.…

BY SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYAKA
INDIAN chicken producers, already been hit by a poultry price fall, are now facing another problem: a rise in the price in their principal feed, maize. There is a particular problem in the south, where the Tamil Nadu’s maize crop could be 50 per cent of earlier projections because of the failure of the country’s northeast monsoon.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
FRAUDSTERS have developed two new twists on the ever-popular advance fee scam. The International Chamber of Commerce has warned of a Nigerian oil fraud particularly featuring Bonny Light oil, where fake oil traders offer up to 1 million barrels at below market rates, following the payment of cash fees of around US$50,000.…

BY MATTHEW BRACE
WITH Australia sharing the front-line in President Bush’s war against terrorism with Britain and the USA, and also having witnessed its citizens dying in last year’s Bali nightclub terror attack, it is maybe not surprising that it has been tightening its money laundering legislation, especially as regards terrorists.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) Council of Ministers has banned all imports of bovine fresh meat into the EU from Paraguay, because of alleged serious problems regarding the south Americans’ control and supervision of Foot and Mouth Disease outbreaks in their country.…

BY MARK ROWE
BEAUTY is not only in the eye of the beholder but all also in the milk that we pour in our tea or cereal. At least, that’s what a South Korean milk company would like us to believe.…

BY PHILIP FINE

AN AMERICAN father’s grief has turned litigious and the USA construction company that had allegedly failed to post sufficient signs or barriers preventing access to a partly built bridge is now in his sights. Last March, South Carolina’s ironically-named Thrift Brothers Construction Co, had finished work for the evening on a bridge job in Clemson, but it seems Ron Brown, who was being chased by the local police at 4AM for – officers claim – trying to run down a pedestrian, was not adequately aware of the construction work.…