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BY MONICA DOBIE

CANADA will continue to import cat and dog fur despite a ban adopted by the United States and the UK, to avoid undermining support for the country’s seal hunt.

An internal government document obtained by a Canadian news agency under the Access to Information Act – now widely disseminated by Canadian media – says government officials urged Gerry Ritz, the agriculture minister, not to instigate a ban.…

BY MONICA DOBIE

CANADA will continue to import cat and dog fur despite a ban adopted by the United States and the UK, to avoid undermining support for the country’s seal hunt.

An internal government document obtained by a Canadian news agency under the Access to Information Act – now widely disseminated by Canadian media – says government officials urged Gerry Ritz, the agriculture minister, not to instigate a ban.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE UNITED Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) and the [South] Korean Institute of Criminology have signed an agreement to develop an Asian judicial cooperation unit, modelled on the European Union’s (EU) Eurojust network. It would link prosecutors, special investigators, legal assistance and extradition authorities across Asia to help fight organised crime.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Commission has warned that the amount of counterfeit medicines being smuggled into the European Union (EU) is increasing sharply. In its latest report on fake products, it warns that when compared to 2007, there were 57% more interventions by EU customs teams to seize counterfeit drugs, and a "remarkable" 118% increase in the number of fake medicines seized – to 8.8 million items.…

BY PAUL COCHRANE

OVER the past five years steel production has struggled to keep pace with demand in the Gulf, particularly the United Arab Emirates (UAE), as hundreds of billions of dollars worth of construction projects sprung up in the desert.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THERE is much work required by the United States government and the European Union (EU) to disarm trade barriers impeding EU auto exports, a new European Commission report has claimed.

The EU executive highlights three particular grumbles with existing US legislation, it claims gives American (and Canadian) automakers unfair advantages over European rivals.…

BY GERARD O’DWYER

FOR those seduced by the idea that Nordic countries are full of healthy statuesque blond super-beings eating perfect diets and exercising regularly, it may come as something of a surprise to learn that obesity is on the rise in the region.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE UNITED Nations Development Programme (UNEP) is pushing the Sri Lankan government to use the country’s hard won peace to bring social and economic justice to tea plantation Tamils. These communities are not the long-established Tamils who supported the Tamil Tigers in the civil war that recently reached its bloody climax.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

ANOTHER building block in the long process of creating a viable functioning Palestinian state has been laid, with the launch of a state-of-the-art web-based customs control system for territories under Palestinian Authority control. The ASYCUDA WORLD system is now operational in the West Bank after years of efforts to install its administration.…

BY DAVID HAWORTH and KEITH NUTHALL

IT is an important symbol of the changing focus of the European Union (EU) that the EU’s energy lobby is today regarded as an equal, if not more important than, the once feared agriculture lobby in Brussels.…