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BY MARK ROWE
THE ENGINEERING and power group Malaysia Mining Corp is to buy a US$ 505 million stake in Tanjung Pelepas, Malaysia’s newest port. The company told the Malaysian stock market last Tuesday that it had purchased a 50.1 per cent holding in the country’s newest port in Tanjung Pelepas, in a move designed to expand its infrastructure business.…

BY MIKE FOX
THE HISTORIC political changes, which swept across Europe in the previous decade, have also brought huge changes to the world of aviation; the European Civil Aviation Conference, (ECAC), has welcomed 16 countries from the region as members since 1990.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A GLOBAL convention, controlling the use of potentially harmful anti-fouling paints on ships, has been formally agreed by the International Maritime Organisation; the agreement – which has been discussed since 1992 – will ban the painting or repainting of organotin compounds on ships by January, 2003.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
MEMBER countries of the World Trade Organisation have agreed to speed up the implementation of the Agreement on Textiles and Clothing, in a bid to mollify criticism from developing world governments that their exporters have not benefited from the ATC as widely as the had hoped.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
HEALTH experts have been discussing a report from the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development, (OECD), which has shown Britain performs poorly against its competitors in western Europe and north America, regarding the number of nurses employed per head of population in the late 1990’s.…

BY JONATHAN THOMSON
WITH the daily number of flights across European skies expected to increase from the current average of 25,000 to 50,000 by 2020, the continent’s air industry is facing a serious threat of longer delays, higher rates of air accidents and escalating operating costs.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE FIGHT against cigarette smuggling was a key priority of EU anti-fraud organisation OLAF in 2000-2001, says its new annual report. Its officers have tracked the routes and means of transport used to move illicit cigarettes in ex-Yugoslavian countries and established the final destination of contraband cigarettes and staging post warehouses.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
THE EUROPEAN Commission has formally adopted a regulation that will force the aquaculture industry to label their fish and fish products as being farmed or cultivated in a bid to better inform consumers and help officials police the Common Fisheries Policy.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
THE LATEST report of the European Court of Auditors on annual spending by the European Union is depressingly familiar. It says the figures do not warrant official approval. It puts a questionmark over some Pounds 2.5 billion out of the pounds 50 billion spent by the EU in 2000, with most of the suspect figures again in the farm sector.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
AN INTERNATIONAL Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture has been approved by the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation. Once it is ratified, the treaty will ensure access by all countries to plant genetic resources worldwide, to related knowledge and technologies, plus financing to make use of the agreement.…