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BY KEITH NUTHALL

CHINA, the United States, and the European Union have agreed to work more closely together to improve consumer product safety, with personal care products and food being priorities. A joint communiqué following a meeting at the World Expo in Shanghai said their governments would undertake joint work on "product traceability, convergence of safety requirements, advice to manufacturers and joint enforcement actions."…

BY NADJA DROST

THE SURGING price of gold has unleashed a gold rush in Colombia, and international criminal networks are using the burgeoning trade in the precious metal to clean the proceeds of crime. In a country with as intimate a connection with the illicit drugs trade and terrorism as Colombia, the risks posed to anti-money laundering authorities are significant.…

BY LEE ADENDORFF

ITALY: Poor funding and weak competition stunt Italian universities

Lee Adendorff

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ITALY: Poor funding and weak competition stunt Italian universities

Lee Adendorff

Despite being home to Europe’s oldest higher education university, Italy has fared less than brilliantly in the latest Times Higher Education (THE) rankings.…

BY ROBERT STOKES

A SURGE in e-book reading in Spain coincides with exhibition space being devoted to digital publishing for the first time ever at LIBER, the International Book Fair for the Spanish speaking world, from Wednesday to Friday this week in Madrid.…

BY MARK GODFREY

SUSTAINED economic growth and soaring passenger numbers are both reasons why Beijing is building a long-mooted second airport for commercial and cargo use. Digging into a US dollar USD$400 billion national fund for infrastructure, the Chinese capital is opening a new airport to cope with expected overcrowding at the city’s Beijing Capital International Airport (BCIA), which added its celebrated dragon-styled Terminal Three only two years ago.…

BY EMMA JACKSON

CANADA presents an almost unique challenge for providing nursing services. The second largest country in the world, with a population of just around 33 million, it has a population density of only 3.3 people per square kilometre. Given most Canadians live in southern urban centres close to the US border, expansive swaths of land are virtually unsettled and isolated from modern amenities.…

BY MJ DESCHAMPS

OUT of all traded commodities, fossil-based oil is arguably the most disputed: governments tailor their security policies to maintain an affordable security of supply. That is why in recent years, ministries of defence and their armed forces, especially in net importers of fossil fuels, have progressively been moving towards integrating domestically-produced biofuels into their operations, reducing their dependence on unreliable and maybe scarce strategic imports.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL, MJ DESCHAMPS, PAUL COCHRANE

MOROCCO is perfectly placed to be a major bio-based oils and fats exporter to Europe. It is of course very close – being separated from Spain by only nine miles of sea. And with its agriculture fed by plentiful sunshine and its rich fishing grounds, Morocco has huge potential to become a major oil and fat feedstock producer as well as an oils and fats manufacturer in its own right though its developed industrial sector.…

BY EMMA JACKSON

THE PROLIFERATION of international money laundering controls was inspired by the need to find dirty money from illicit drug sales. And illegal drug trafficking still generates billions of dollars around the world each year, which must be laundered.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Commission has proposed imposing definitive countervailing duties on imports into the European Union (EU) of certain polyethylene terephthalate (PET) exported from Iran, Pakistan and the United Arab Emirates (UAE). The duties – which as usual compensate EU producers for government subsidies or assistance in the exporting countries – would range from 5.1% to 16.7%.…