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BY MONICA DOBIE

HARLEQUIN Books in the United States has launched a serialised version of its steamy romantic novels that can be read on a mobile phone.

Harlequin On the Go, is an e-book that can be read on mobiles in 5-10 minute snippets, intended to be read daily while waiting in between appointments or while travelling.…

BY JULIAN RYALL, in Tokyo

THE HEADLINES in the Japanese press in recent months are likely to have

piqued the interest of anyone looking for a destination where ill-gotten

gains can be made to appear legitimate, let alone the concern of global

money-laundering authorities.…

BY KENCHO WANGDI, in Thimphu, Bhutan

WHAT is happiness, really? In conventional development theory, it equals money and prosperity, as measured by GNP (Gross National Product).

But Bhutan, the famously remote and beautiful Buddhist kingdom in the Himalayas, has been trying out a different concept.…

BY JULIAN RYALL, in Tokyo

THE HEADLINES in the Japanese press in recent months are likely to have

piqued the interest of anyone looking for a destination where ill-gotten

gains can be made to appear legitimate, let alone the concern of global

money-laundering authorities.…

BY PAUL COCHRANE, in Cairo

WITH the fight against money laundering and counter terrorism financing relatively new to the Middle East (the first plenary session of the Middle East and North Africa Financial Action Task Force

– MENA-FATF – was only held last year), financial institutions from the US and MENA met in Cairo for a Private Sector Dialogue (PSD) conference to discuss the implementation of international regulations in the region.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

ROMANIA is desperate to join the European Union (EU) but it remains unclear whether that desperation extends to clamping down on business crime, one of the key obstacles that Romania must overcome to gain entry to the club.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Automobile Manufacturers Association (ACEA) has called for a swift resolution to the World Trade Organisation (WTO) dispute launched by the United States and the European Union (EU) over Chinese restrictions on car parts imports. In unusual cooperation, Washington DC and Brussels are combining forces against Beijing.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

NON-EUROPEAN Union (EU) uranium owners do not have to ask the European Commission permission to export uranium enriched within the EU, a European Court of Justice (ECJ) advocate general has concluded. Miguel Poiares Maduro was advising on a complex legal case focusing on the control of Brazilian-owned uranium transferred from Europe to the United States.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

A EUROPEAN Union (EU) research project is using nanotechnology to develop bio-sensors that could be fitted to air traffic controllers and pilots, warning managers of potential drowsiness or sleepiness. The SENSATION project has united 46 specialists from 20 countries to create, says a project note, "a multipurpose sensing platform of 17 micro sensors and two nano sensors all connected through a (computer) local area network (LAN)."…

BY MARK ROWE

SCIENTISTS and engineers are using nanotechnology to install sensors that will create "self-thinking" carpets offering huge resource savings and safety benefits to companies and householders.

Nanotechnology will implement sensors into carpets so that the carpets recognise where people are, according to Wolfgang Porod, director of the University of Notre Dame’s Nanofabrication Facility in the United States.…