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BY ALAN OSBORN

THE WORLD is not over-full of specialist academic experts at universities and colleges teaching anti-money laundering methods. This is partly because the subject is often subsumed into financial crime generally and partly because genuine AML skills can command a useful premium to banks and other major financial institutions better able to support lavish salaries and back-up systems.…

BY CLEMENCE MANYUKWE

SHYLETTE Chifamba, 38, works for 12 hours each day at Harare’s Baines Avenues Clinic, one of the country’s elite private hospitals. Mrs Chifamba has worked for 13 years as an operating theatre nurse, five of which were at the government-run Harare Central Hospital, where she was also trained.…

BY MARK ROWE

IN theory it sounds straightforward: if you don’t want to make a confectionery product with a GM component you can source your ingredients through established channels that have clear traceability schemes. Similarly, if a consumer wants to eat a pastry then a labelling scheme exists to tell them whether or not the manufacturer has used GM products.…

BY RAGHAVENDRA VERMA

SUPPORTERS of the Indo-US nuclear deal had almost lost hope this March that the agreement would ever come into force when the ruling Congress Party in New Delhi decided that it was not prepared to risk the fall of its coalition government over the issue.…

BY PAUL COCHRANE, ALAN OSBORN and GAVIN BLAIR

EARTHQUAKES spell potential disasters for mining companies. Not only do they pose obvious safety risks, but the danger that a serious earth tremor could destroy or weaken environmental protection measures put in place at mine sites are significant.…

BY CLEMENCE MANYUKWE

"IMAGINE a country with no Coca Cola," a headline in Zimbabwe’s weekly independent newspaper the Financial Gazette asked its readers recently.

The article quoted from the Bible, Proverbs chapter 31 verse 7 that reads: "Let him drink and forget his poverty and remember his misery no more", aptly summing up the drinking patterns in a nation where poverty is widespread due to a current world record inflation of 11.7 million % (and rising).…

BY JULIAN RYALL, JAMES BURNS, RAGHAVENDRA VERMA and PHILIPPA JONES

"IT is better to be beautiful than to be good," wrote Oscar Wilde in ‘The Picture of Dorian Gray’. Many cosmetics and personal care companies worldwide may still believe this statement to be true, but being, or at least claiming to be, "good" has become an essential part of the sector’s public image.…

BY JAMES BURNS

DANBURY, Connecticut-based Nordic American Smokeless has launched a new line of Swedish-style snus tobacco products throughout the United States.

Klondike Snus is the first loose snus brand manufactured in the US. Fine cut and long cut forms are both available in Wintergreen, Peppermint and Straight flavours.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

A COMPANY importing quality cigars from Nicaragua has been launched in Toronto, Canada. Former investment bank researcher Markus Raty has become president of Mombacho Cigars, which is backed by the president of independent beer-maker Steam Whistle Breweries Co – Cameron Heaps.…

BY BILL CORCORAN

SINCE international football association FIFA awarded South Africa the right to host the 2010 world cup four years ago, the country’s government has been using the event as a driving force to improve transport infrastructure nationwide.

The African National Congress-led government’s commitment to using one of the biggest competitions in world sport as a means to accelerate the delivery of infrastructure can be seen in many sectors, but none more so than in the Airports Company of South Africa’s (ACSA) expansion plans.…