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BY KEITH NUTHALL
*A south-south project – backed by World Bank Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA) will raise Burundi’s teledensity ratio above one per cent. It is guaranteeing Mauritius Telecom Ltd’s US$1.01 million investment in Burundi’s Africell GSM mobile network.

*An emerging international market in hosting regional and international headquarters of transnational corporations benefits developing countries, says the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD); 829 HQs were established or relocated January 2002 to March 2003, nearly a quarter in developing countries.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE INTERNATIONAL Primate Protection League has welcomed CITES secretary general Willem Wijnstekers’s call for prosecutions over the illegal sale of four young wild gorillas from Nigeria to Malaysia, via South Africa. League chairwoman Shirley McGreal told BBC Wildlife the intervention made court action “more likely,” although she has criticised the case’s handling.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
INTERPOL secretary general Ronald K Noble has warned networks pedalling pirated CDs and DVDs, and counterfeit clothing, computer software, and cigarettes are financing terror groups, such as Al-Qaeda, Hezbollah, Chechen separatists, Kosovan extremists and Northern Ireland paramilitaries. He called for increased industry-police cooperation, such as national anti-counterfeiting police contact points.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
AN INDEPENDENT World Bank inspection panel has criticised the development body for flouting its own guidelines regarding the Coal Sector Environmental and Social Mitigation Project in India, which led to the relocation of families from the Parej East mining region.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE INTERNATIONAL Finance Corporation, of the World Bank, is lending US$22 million loan to a Chinese pork producer. The Jilin Huazheng Agricultural Development Company Ltd will increase its pig breeding farms, upgrade slaughtering capacity, and build a new processing plant for ready-to-eat packaged meats.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE COST to the shipping industry of the precautions ordered by last year’s compulsory code of practice on maritime security may be high, but it still much smaller than the cost of another major terrorist incident on the scale of September 11, the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) has warned.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE WORLD food standards body, Codex Alimentarius, has adopted new quality guidelines for chocolate. Its new global standards set a minimum 35 per cent by volume of cocoa solids in products marketed as ‘chocolate’ and a minimum 20 per cent in ‘chocolate type’ products, such as chocolate flakes.…

BY PHILIP FINE

A US company that developed a method to turn waste into low-priced usable fuel plans to begin turning out 500 barrels of oil a day next month. Changing World Technologies (CWT) has built its newest plant on the site of Conagra Foods Butterball turkey factory in Missouri.…

BY MARK ROWE
RUSSIA’S Natural Resources Ministry has ordered the Wm. Wrigley Jr. Company, the world’s largest chewing gum producer, to stop work at its St. Petersburg factory for unspecified ecological violations. Ministry officials have not disclosed what regulations Wrigley has allegedly violated but the company vigorously denies any wrongdoing and is continuing to operate.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
THE EUROPEAN Commission has served notice of its intention to introduce a number of important anti-smoking moves, including that it is “about to conceive a major initiative aimed at banning smoking in workplaces” throughout the 15 EU countries and the new Member States joining next May.…