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BY ALAN OSBORN

It is a testimony to the continuing power of the American marketplace, even in today’s multi-polar world, that the USA’s controversial Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA) has so much influence. Indeed, by key US trade partners adopting many of its provisions themselves, the act is going global and threatening to turn the world of international tax management upside down.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

A EUROPEAN Union (EU)-funded research consortium is developing the first tuberculosis vaccine based on mycobacterium tuberculosis, the bacterium that causes TB. Switzerland’s medicines authority Swissmedic has now authorised clinical trials in healthy adult volunteers. The project has been financed funded through the through the NEWTBVAC project, which has received Euro EUR12 million from the EU,and it has been coordinated by the TuBerculosis Vaccine Initiative (TBVI), a collaborative Europe-based consortium developing new TB medicines.…

BY TENZING LAMSANG in BHUTAN

HELP WANTED IN ‘THE GARDEN OF EDEN’

The tiny Himalayan Kingdom of Bhutan has undergone tremendous changes in the last decade, from opening up to television and the internet in 1999, to the introduction of parliamentary democracy in 2008 by an enlightened monarchy.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE WORLD’S developed countries are enthusiastically or moderately implementing the Organisation for Economic Cooperation & Development’s (OECD) anti-bribery convention, so that 52.3% of world exports are sold by countries opposing graft. So says the latest Transparency International report that says the leading established economic players are now leading by example: with the USA, Germany, Britain, Italy, Switzerland, Norway and Denmark all praised for actively implementing the convention.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE FEAR of conviction over beefed up foreign bribery rules is growing in the USA, a consultants’ report is claiming, but scandals involving graft overseas continue. BDO USA released findings from a survey of 72 corporate directors of public companies with turnovers exceeding USD250 million.…

BY ZLATKO CONKAS

INCREASING passenger traffic and aircraft movements have required an expansion of Croatia’s Zagreb Airport, which serves the country’s capital, in the form of a new passenger terminal which should be fully operational by 2016.

"Given the imminent entry of Croatia into the European Union [EU] in January 2013, and the existing attractiveness of the capital Zagreb, we need bigger, better, more beautiful and more efficient facilities – which will certainly be achieved with the construction of a new passenger terminal," Tonci Peovic, general manager of Zagreb Airport (Zra?na…

BY LEAH GERMAIN, CARMEN PAUN AND KEITH NUTHALL

EVEN with Europe mired in recession and financial crisis, an awful lot of lorries cross Switzerland moving goods between southern and northern Europe. According to Swiss road transport agency FEDRO, in 2010 the number of heavy goods vehicles transporting goods across the Alps increased 6.5% year-on-year.…

BY LEAH GERMAIN, CARMEN PAUN AND KEITH NUTHALL

PART I: Air Quality and Congestion

SWITZERLAND has always been a land of contrasts – Europe’s mountain hub has always combined an international outlook with intensely local democratic structures based on the country’s 26 cantons – and road transport policy is no different.…

BY LEAH GERMAIN, CARMEN PAUN AND KEITH NUTHALL

THE SWISS federal transport agency FEDRO has estimated that in 2011, motorists travelled a total of 25.874 billion km on Switzerland’s motorway network. As one of the most central countries in Europe, Switzerland has long been a major transport route for European goods haulage, as well as a popular tourist destination.…

BY JONATHAN DYSON, IN LA PAZ

Bolivia’s state mining company Comibol has said it plans to triple zinc production at the recently nationalised Colquiri zinc and tin mine, previously operated by Switzerland-based mining giant Glencore. Hector Cordova, head of Bolivia’s state mining company Comibol, which is now operating the mine, told Metal Bulletin that Comibol will continue with the operations that had been implemented by Glencore, but that it also plans to add operations in parts of the mine that have not been previously exploited, "and that have good reserves."…