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BY WACHIRA KIGOTHO

EAST Africa is developing as an important source of biofuels and biofuel feedstock, with governments keen to attract foreign direct investment for this potentially strategic rural development option.

Ethiopia, Kenya, Mozambique, Sudan, and Tanzania are countries where foreign companies are competing to acquire land for biofuel projects.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) and Mexico have agreed to combine their efforts in drafting by 2013 legally binding controls on the use of mercury in their territories. The commitment comes in a new ‘strategic partnership’ agreed last week (May 16) at the fifth EU-Mexico summit, staged in Comillas, northern Spain.…

BY ALAN OSBORN

BY its very nature, money laundering tells us that another crime is being, or has been committed. The detection of the act of money laundering itself is usually the handiwork of specialised Financial Intelligence Units (FIUs) but these often do not have the resources or the responsibility to investigate the predicate crime.…

BY KASHMIR HILL

HIGH profile financial scandals are making businesses more aware of the risk of crime in their own companies. Industry insiders in the USA highlight the signs that fraud may be occurring and when it is time to call a forensic accountant.…

BY MUNZA MUSHTAQ

THE TOBACCO industry in Sri Lanka is facing tough times. With increasingly hostile anti-tobacco regulations and a burgeoning illicit market, a public promise was made last summer by the now re-elected and powerful Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa to eradicate tobacco consumption from his island nation by 2015.…

BY PAUL COCHRANE, AHMAD PATHONI, GAVIN BLAIR, RAGHAVENDRA VERMA, WANG FANGQING, HELEN FLUSFELDER, KARRYN MILLER, KEITH NUTHALL and ALAN OSBORN

THE BRITISH writer Oscar Wilde wrote: "A cigarette is the perfect type of a perfect pleasure. It is exquisite, and it leaves one unsatisfied.…

BY MARK ROWE and GERARD O’DWYER

CONCERNS over climate change often refer to the potential thawing of the Arctic permafrost, where large-scale releases of methane could significantly accelerate global warming. Yet at the same time, governments and energy companies are weighing up the potentially lucrative reserves of methane lying below the permafrost that covers the Siberian continental shelf, and extends up to 1,000 kilometres into the Arctic Ocean.…

BY RAGHAVENDRA VERMA

THE IMPLEMENTATION of the India-USA civil nuclear agreement seems to face one hurdle after another. Despite the successful conclusion of nuclear fuel reprocessing agreement with India in March this year, the American corporations still cannot trade nuclear equipment and materials with Indian customers due to a lack of a nuclear civil liability regime in India.…

BY PAUL COCHRANE

THE KINGDOM of Saudi Arabia’s USD$1 billion paint sector market is projected to return to double-digit growth this year on the back of massive government spending, following static growth in 2009 in the wake of the global financial crisis.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

CHEMICALS of potential use by the textile finishing sector will be subject to fresh usage controls within the United States. Its Environmental Protection Agency is drafting actions plans restricting the use of benzidine dyes. It is also working on plans for NP/NPE (nonylphenol/nonylphenol ethoxylate), HBCD (hexabromocyclododecane), siloxanes and diisocyanates.…