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BY KASHMIR HILL

HIGH profile financial scandals are making businesses more aware of the risk of crime in their own companies. Industry insiders in the USA highlight the signs that fraud may be occurring and when it is time to call a forensic accountant.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

DETAILS of the agreement struck in March to upgrade the European Union (EU)-United States open skies agreement have been presented to the EU Council of Ministers for approval. They include allowing more EU airlines to serve third country airports after landing first in the USA.…

BY PACIFICA GODDARD

According to the US department of agriculture (USDA), about 70% of the 2.5 billion litres of fruit and vegetable juices sold in Mexico in 2009 were produced domestically. Mexico exported USdollar USD266.99 million worth of juices in 2009, compared to USD308.23 million in 2008 and USD247.29 million in 2007, according the UN Comtrade database.…

BY JULIAN RYALL

FOURTEEN years and five months after it was shut down in the wake of an accident, Japan’s Monju fast-breeder reactor resumed operations today (Thursday May 6).

After receiving final confirmation from the local and national governments that the controversial plant could be restarted, control rods were removed from the reactor, a process that was completed at 10.36 am Japan time, according to the Japan Atomic Energy Agency (JAEA).…

BY WACHIRA KIGOTHO

EAST Africa is developing as an important source of biofuels and biofuel feedstock, with governments keen to attract foreign direct investment for this potentially strategic rural development option.

Ethiopia, Kenya, Mozambique, Sudan, and Tanzania are countries where foreign companies are competing to acquire land for biofuel projects.…

BY MUNZA MUSHTAQ

THE TOBACCO industry in Sri Lanka is facing tough times. With increasingly hostile anti-tobacco regulations and a burgeoning illicit market, a public promise was made last summer by the now re-elected and powerful Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa to eradicate tobacco consumption from his island nation by 2015.…

BY DANIEL PRUZIN

REPRESENTATIVES from around 160 countries are moving toward clinching a deal on new World Health Organisation (WHO) Protocol on Illicit Trade in Tobacco Products, which could be wrapped up within the next 12 months. Unlike its predecessor, the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (under whose authority this latest agreement is being negotiated), the protocol is something of a mixed blessing for the tobacco industry.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) and Mexico have agreed to combine their efforts in drafting by 2013 legally binding controls on the use of mercury in their territories. The commitment comes in a new ‘strategic partnership’ agreed last week (May 16) at the fifth EU-Mexico summit, staged in Comillas, northern Spain.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

CHEMICALS of potential use by the textile finishing sector will be subject to fresh usage controls within the United States. Its Environmental Protection Agency is drafting actions plans restricting the use of benzidine dyes. It is also working on plans for NP/NPE (nonylphenol/nonylphenol ethoxylate), HBCD (hexabromocyclododecane), siloxanes and diisocyanates.…

BY RAGHAVENDRA VERMA

THE IMPLEMENTATION of the India-USA civil nuclear agreement seems to face one hurdle after another. Despite the successful conclusion of nuclear fuel reprocessing agreement with India in March this year, the American corporations still cannot trade nuclear equipment and materials with Indian customers due to a lack of a nuclear civil liability regime in India.…