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BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE WORLD Bank has called on Latin American and Caribbean countries to reform their aviation systems and technology to boost predicted slow growth of air freight. A report predicts cargo traffic between the Latin America/Caribbean and the United States – the most important destination market – will grow 5.8% annually between 2010 and 2027.…

BY MJ DESCHAMPS

DESPITE scientific disagreements and public concerns over the possible health effects caused by exposure to man-made electromagnetic fields (EMF), studies have been showing that the use of non-ionising radiation for magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is safe for nurses.…

BY MJ DESCHAMPS

WHILE the introduction of personalised medication is still at a relatively nascent stage, the growing number of prescribing nurses means that when genetic testing is used widely to optimise treatment, patient care will become more sophisticated, necessitating more training.…

BY MJ DESCHAMPS and KEITH NUTHALL

AFTER three years of painstaking scientific work, the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has finished assessing 2,758 health claims made by European Union (EU) food manufacturers about their products.

The companies appear not to have covered themselves in glory.…

BY BILL CORCORAN, WACHIRA KIGOTHO, PAUL COCHRANE; and KEITH NUTHALL

SUB-SAHARAN Africa has always been regarded as a problem zone for air traffic control, with weak states struggling to provide the sophisticated and flexible communications required for state of the art ATC.…

BY ALAN OSBORN

THE USE of third parties to provide verification that anti-money laundering checks such as CDD (customer due diligence) have been properly carried out is fraught with legal and other difficulties. It is, not surprisingly, one of the areas where banks and others have urged the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) to consider changes in its official recommendations during its current comprehensive review.…

BY WACHIRA KIGOTHO

RESEARCHERS studying mining in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) are warning illegal uranium mining continues in a country still riven with political violence and weak government authority.

Indeed, militia groups and government soldiers continue to benefit from illegal uranium mining in the eastern DRC, claims Ms Nyambura Githaiga, a researcher with the Nairobi-based African Conflict Prevention Programme.…

BY RAGHAVENDRA VERMA

India’s textile and clothing industry has been feeling the pinch this year as cotton costs have risen. And so its leaders have criticised the central government’s decision to allow an unrestricted export of cotton from October this year, and have been calling for a long term policy to ensure the sufficient supply and price stability of the fibre in the domestic market.…

BY NAAFIA MATTOO, IN DUBAI

AS the only female partner at Ernst & Young’s Dubai office, Ginnie Carlier paints an intimidating figure on paper. In person, she is affable, engaging and wryly admits to leaving E&Y early in her career to work for Caesar’s Palace in Las Vegas for a year "because it seemed like fun" Aside from that bout of adventurousness, Ms Carlier has been with E&Y since 1993.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

ENERGY ministers from the European Union (EU) and the Balkans will next month (October 6) vote on a new plan to create a ‘gas ring’ of pipeline links uniting the fragmented energy markets of south-eastern Europe. A meeting of the Energy Community, an organisation linking the EU’s supposedly united energy market with those in neighbouring countries to the south and east, will be asked to back an ‘Implementation Plan for Gas Infrastructure Development in the Energy Community’.…