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BY PHILIP FINE

THERE is a two-word prefix that seems to be coming out of every American food manufacturer’s new-product department: Low-Carb.

The US is fighting an obesity problem. A staggering (in some cases – literally) 64 per cent of the population is overweight and the number of people carrying more than 100 pounds over their ideal weight has quadrupled in the last 20 years to one in every hundred.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A SERIES of exemptions from the European Union’s (EU) new energy taxation directive have been proposed by the European Commission for the eastern and southern European countries joining the EU in May (barring Cyprus).

They would be added to the already long list of exemptions negotiated by existing Member States that prompted EU internal market Commissioner Frits Bolkestein to liken the legislation to “Gruyere cheese”.…

KEITH NUTHALL
THE WORLD WIDE Fund for Nature (WWF) has warned that the eight eastern European countries joining the European Union in May are failing to exploit their potential renewable energy capacity, making it harder for some to comply with the EU’s renewable energy directive.…

BY MARK ROWE
A TURKISH museum that recalls the pioneering mental health care of the middle ages has been awarded the Council of Europe’s museum prize for 2004. The Museum of Health Care in Edirne was praised by the judges for its “successful and exemplary approach to the psychologically sensitive theme of mental disorder”.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
EUROPEAN Union (EU) energy Commissioner Loyola de Palacio has called for a redoubling of efforts to create gas networks linking European, north African and Levantine countries. Speaking to a Euro-Mediterranean ministerial conference, in Rome, de Palacio highlighted the available resources of natural gas in the EU’s Mediterranean neighbours and called for cross-border infrastructure to be improved.…

BY SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYAKE
THE SRI Lankan government is wrongly promoting the consumption of poultry as an alternative to red meat in the diet of its citizens, according to a report from the Olcott Gunasekera of Dharmavijaya Centre for Promotion of Healthy Living in Sri Lanka.…

BY SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYAKE
THE SRI Lankan government is wrongly promoting the consumption of poultry as an alternative to red meat in the diet of its citizens, according to a report from the Olcott Gunasekera of Dharmavijaya Centre for Promotion of Healthy Living in Sri Lanka.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE UNITED Nations (UN) has framed a new anti-corruption convention and its established convention against organised crime is now coming into force. Keith Nuthall examines what this will mean for businesses, banks and governments.

THE COMMERCIAL world is often doubtful about the value of international conventions fighting crime, but their texts do at least reflect a global consensus amongst concerned governments.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
BANS have been slapped on 10 ships from entering any European Union port because of concerns they are poorly maintained safety risks, potentially spilling pollution into Europe’s seas. The ships (seven bulk carriers, one chemical tanker and one oil tanker) are from Cambodia, Cyprus, Honduras, the Lebanon, Panama, St Vincent and the Grenadines and Turkey.…

BY PHILIP FINE

AMERICAN Thanksgiving is this Thursday (27 Nov) so US specialty soft drinks maker Jones Soda Co has introduced Turkey & Gravy-flavoured soda. The tan-coloured fizzy drink may taste like Thanksgiving but contains no meat extracts. An initial batch sold out in three hours on the website (http://www.jonessoda.com)…