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BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE UNITED Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) and the European Commission are teaming up to introduce two new manufacturing standards in the European Union (EU): one on anti-theft protection and another on reducing the flammability of materials used inside cars.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
THE SPREAD of salmonella in pork may eventually be curtailed because of new research that can track the bacteria in living pigs. Scientists at the USA’s Agricultural Research Service’s Livestock Behaviour Research Unit have used biophotonics, a new technology that uses light to mark molecular changes, to observe infections in living piglets and adult pig tissue after slaughter.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
AUTHORITIES in the USA’s New Mexico have introduced plans to drastically raise taxes on all alcoholic beverages sold. Its congress has proposed a “dime a drink tax” (ten cents per drink) intended to raise funds to introduce more detoxification centres for alcoholics and educational programs in the state.…

Keith Nuthall
THE EUROPEAN Parliament has given the European Commission two months to ban the transfer of sensitive passenger data to the United States or face possible legal action. In a near unanimous resolution, MEPs said that they were prepared to take the Commission to the European Court of Justice over alleged infringements of EU data legislation caused by the transfers.…

BY MARK ROWE
THE 19th century saw imperial rivalry create the “Great Game”, when Russia and the British Empire tweaked one another’s tails in the region that following Russia’s Bolshevik revolution became known as Soviet Central Asia. The old Great Game was tied to control of India, and to gems and gold.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE UNITED States and Canada have been asked to lift Euro 120 million of extra tariffs levied against European Union (EU) exporters following the imposition of a hormone treated beef directive that the European Commission claims satisfies a World Trade Organisation (WTO) ruling on the matter.…

Keith Nuthall
THE UNITED States and Britain have formally withdrawn two cases brought against Libya at the International Court of Justice over its liability under the Montreal Convention because of its role in the Lockerbie disaster. The move follows Libya’s offer of compensation to victims’ families.…

BY MARK ROWE
UZBEKISTAN has been at the forefront of international AML efforts in the central Asia region, a spokesman for the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) told the Money Laundering Bulletin. Uzbekistan has the most advanced AML legislation and apparatus of all the former Soviet Central Asia and has signed more than 20 bilateral and multilateral agreements on cooperation in fighting illicit drug trafficking with its Central Asian neighbours, as well as with Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Pakistan, Russia and Turkey, according to the International Money Laundering Information Network (IMOLIN), (whose contributing members include the Financial Action Task Force (FATF), the Asia Pacific Group on Money Laundering, the United Nations and the World Customs Organisation).…

BY SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYAKE and KEITH NUTHALL
A SHORTLIST of seven designs for a planned 16.7 billion yuan (US$2 billion) third and international terminal at Beijing’s Capital Airport has been unveiled. Beijing Capital Airport Authority announced that the competing designers include the UK dominated NACO Foster ARUP consortium; the British Airports United Consultants Consortium; France’s Aeroports de Paris/Ingénierie consortium; China’s Beijing Municipal Architecture Design and Research Institute plus the USA’s Landrum & Brown & Yang Molen; Murphy/Jahn Inc; and Parsons & Fentress.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
CHINA has played tit-for-tat in unusually public diplomatic spat over temporary’ safeguard duties that were imposed by Beijing last May on US exports of nine steel products. The United States had published a pointed set of questions about whether the duties had actually lapsed as planned by November and over exemptions from such tariffs for South Korea and Slovakia on the apparently dubious grounds that they were “developing countries”.…