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BY DEIRDRE MASON
MOST businesses install computer software because it makes their operation more efficient and so helps them to keep abreast of, or outdo, the competition. However, the growth in national and international regulations affecting the drinks industry has opened up a lucrative business opportunity for companies producing industry-specific computer software.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union is considering a range of requests from foreign governments to liberalise the access to its legal professions under commitments it will make in a future World Trade Organisation (WTO) deal, following the ongoing so-called Doha Development Round.…

BY MARK ROWE
THE THEORY of evolution is as relevant to the tobacco industry’s battle against counterfeiters as it is to the animal kingdom. As technology evolves to give the brand owners the edge, so the counterfeiter moves quickly to play catch up, with both cat and mouse becoming ever more sophisticated in efforts to gain the upper hand.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
MICROSOFT, Vodafone, Oracle, AT&T, Nokia, Verizon, IBM and other telecoms related companies have joined a protest statement coordinated by the International Chamber of Commerce against a Spanish law restricting e-commerce.

Spain is not only requiring commercial websites based on its territory to register with its government, but also to insist that Spanish ISP’s block access to site that are deemed threatening to the country’s defence, public order, consumer rights or other values.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A PROPOSAL to liberalise the global trade in artificially propagated orchids been approved by the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES). Its member governments – meeting in Santiago, Chile – exempted six species from trade controls.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A PROPOSAL to liberalise the global trade in artificially propagated orchids been approved by the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES).

Its member governments – meeting in Santiago, Chile – exempted six species from trade controls.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
*A supermarket boom in sub-Saharan Africa is raising food production and distribution standards, which many small farmers cannot meet, said the UN’ Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO). It called for the funding of cooperatives, micro-loans and training, especially in South Africa, Kenya, Zimbabwe, Zambia, Namibia, Botswana and Swaziland.…

Keith Nuthall
THE HIGH risk of healthcare workers worldwide becoming victims of violence has sparked four international organisations into drawing up guidelines advising managers on how to reduce the exposure of their staff to physical attack or threats.

These draft Framework Guidelines for addressing Workplace Violence in the Health Sector are being produced by the International Labour Organisation (ILO), the World Health Organisation (WHO), Public Services International (PSI) and the International Council of Nurses (ICN).…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
FRANCE’S Suez and the United Nations Education, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) have launched a joint drinking water improvements programme that will provide around Euro 300,000 in its first three years and will initially concentrate on the Volga-Caspian region.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has signalled that it is prepared to raid Brussels’ public purse to create widespread broadband telecommunications networks across Europe, if private financing falls short of the task. Andrew Houghton, broadband project officer for the Commission’s directorate general for the information society, told the recent European Union Eurescom telecoms summit: “Where markets don’t work, subsidies to develop the infrastructure make sense.”…