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BY GEORGE STONE

WHAT a difference a year has made in the African oil industry. With sky rocketing oil prices fuelling an expansion boom in 2007 and 2008, this year will be much tougher for the oil and gas sector in sub-Saharan Africa.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE FIRST major effort to limit the overexploitation of western and central Pacific yellowfin and bigeye tuna stocks has been made. The Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission (WCPFC) has approved a 30% reduction over three years of bigeye tuna catches and also a two month ban on floating platforms used to attract both species, which will be extended to three months in 2010.…

BY BILL CORCORAN

SALES of new vehicles made in South Africa, one of the better performing automobile markets worldwide in recent times, fell by more than 20% last year due to the global economic downturn, and the country’s automakers are trying to crafting a positive response.…

By Katherine Dunn

The travails of Roman Polanski in Switzerland this autumn have offered some lessons to the world’s wanted over extradition laws and how to deal with them. The Polish director has of course been living in France, with little fear of extradition, since 1978, when he fled the USA facing statutory rape charges.…

BY RAGHAVENDRA VERMA

"AUDITS are going to become far more stringent [in India] and people will run away from the profession", Amarjeet Chopra, Chairman of Accounting Standards’ Board of Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI) has predicted on the light of the Satyam Computer Systems scandal.…

BY RAGHAVENDRA VERMA

WITH the Satyam scandal seriously affecting his big four firm’s global goodwill, on Thursday PricewaterhouseCooper’s international CEO Samuel DiPiazza rushed to New Delhi to meet India’s corporate affairs minister Prem Chand Gupta.

The meeting is seen by accounting industry experts as an effort to salvage PWC’s businesses in the country and explain the firm’s position in the billion-dollar fraud in which two of its auditing partners are behind bars.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Commission warned today (16-1) of a serious escalation of its trade dispute with the United States over the European Union American growth hormone-treated beef ban, with many European food exports potentially facing punitive tariffs. Brussels has started a World Trade Organisation (WTO) challenge to a US government decision to activate its ‘carousel’ trade sanctions law, prompting biannual reviews of retaliatory duties already erected with permission from the WTO, which ruled against the beef ban in the past.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE UNITED States is moving towards food industry protectionism, the European Commission has warned in an analysis of the USA’s 2008 farm bill. It comes as the European Union (EU) has reacted angrily to US Congress plans to reserve steel purchases in President Obama’s economic stimulus plan to American manufacturers.…

BY MONICA DOBIE

WHILE every nurse knows promoting healthy behaviour by pregnant mothers can help prevent illness in babies, new research suggests that nurses may be able to dispense crucial advice before a baby is even conceived. It could be as effective as telling new about the benefits of cutting out alcohol, tobacco and caffeine and the importance of eating healthily during pregnancy – and a lot simpler.…

BY ALAN OSBORN and MONICA DOBIE

A SIMPLE surgical checklist to be introduced by the National Patient Safety Agency (NPSA) for major operations in the UK from February 2010 has been welcomed by Diane Gilmour, president of the Association for Perioperative Practice (AFPP).…