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BY KEITH NUTHALL
IRELAND has become the latest country to ask the United Nations to extend its economic control over the continental shelf bordering its coastline beyond the usual 200 nautical miles. It has asked the Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf for mineral and other rights over the Atlantic seabed abutting the ‘Porcupine Abyssal Plain’.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
IRELAND has become the latest country to ask the United Nations to extend its economic control over the continental shelf bordering its coastline beyond the usual 200 nautical miles. It has asked the Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf for oil, gas and other rights over the Atlantic seabed abutting the ‘Porcupine Abyssal Plain’.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE UNITED Nations Food & Agriculture Organisation (FAO) has warned major international donors have given only 20% of the money needed to control bird flu in poultry and animals before the epidemic spreads again this winter. The FAO wants mass vaccination campaigns in east Asian countries such as Indonesia and Vietnam, where the disease is most entrenched and from where a global epidemic is most likely to spring.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE UNITED Nations (UN) is warning African countries to prepare for an increase in demand for male circumcisions, after a French study suggested it could significantly cut male HIV infections. It said circumcised men were 63% less likely than uncircumcised men to be infected through sex with HIV-positive women.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE ASSOCIATION of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) has agreed how its member governments should cooperate in the event of a major disaster, such as another Tsunami or earthquake. The international organisation, which includes such major countries as Indonesia, the Philippines and Thailand, has approved a comprehensive deal that lays down how they should mitigate disaster damage, reducing the insurer payouts in a region increasingly interested in insurance.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
INSURERS should have a much clearer idea of the risks involved in extending cover to the areas hit by the tsunami at the end of last year following agreement by 23 Indian Ocean nations to share data and set up seven regional warning centres.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
MINES and minerals ministers of the 10-member Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) have agreed wide-ranging cooperation plans to promote their respective mining sectors. At the first of a series of ministerial meetings, (in Sarawak, Malaysia), an ASEAN Minerals Cooperation Action Plan (AMCAP) 2005-2010, containing 19 actions was approved.…

BY MARK ROWE
IT is difficult to separate the present-day Czech paint industry from the industrial heritage of the country. While the rest of the world made jokes about Skoda cars during the Communist era, the Czechs fumed as they saw a once great engineering industry reduced to a laughing stock.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
MINERALS and mines ministers of the 10-member Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) have agreed wide-ranging cooperation plans to promote their respective mining sectors. At the first of a series of ministerial meetings, (in Sarawak, Malaysia), an ASEAN Minerals Cooperation Action Plan (AMCAP) 2005-2010, containing 19 actions was approved.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE ASSOCIATION of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) has agreed how its members should cooperate in a major disaster, such as another Tsunami. Countries including Indonesia, the Philippines and Thailand approved a comprehensive deal on how they should coordinate military and civil emergency services.…