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BY PHILIP FINE

THE UNITED States may have found an effective means to recover stolen vehicles. It has signed treaties that will provide a mechanism by which automobiles that have been driven out of the country by thieves can be retrieved.…

BY MONICA DOBIE, in Montreal
MICHAEL Grimaldi, president of General Motors Canada, has warned that the country’s automobile manufacture sector will continue to lose business to the United States unless more money is pumped into making Canada looking more attractive to new auto makers.…

BY SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYAKA, in Columbo
PUBLIC protests have broken out in Sri Lanka against the Bandaranaike International Airport expansion project, which would evict more than 10,000 families living in and around the Kurana, Katunayake and Katana areas. Campaigners fighting the project were once supported by the ruling United National Party when it was in opposition, but it switched policies after winning last year’s election.…

Keith Nuthall
A GLOBAL questionnaire has been launched by the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law, (UNCITRAL), which wants to kick start efforts to create a UN convention on insurance liability during multi-modal transportation.

The UN agency has pointed out that despite the huge growth in container movements (from zero in 1965 to 225.3 million in 2000), there is still no global set of rules governing responsibility for cargo carried by combined transport involving ships, rail and roads.…

By ALAN OSBORN
Farmers can’t complain that they lack information about long-term trends in agriculture. The European Commission, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, the various United Nations food agencies, specialised agricultural research institutes and of course national governments all seem driven to make regular projections about crops, prices and markets several years into the future.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
TOBACCO companies should be made subject to tougher auditing controls, to enable customs and other regulators to better detect any diversion of products onto the black market, an International Conference on Illicit Tobacco Trade has concluded.

Staged in New York by the United States Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, with the assistance of the United Nations and World Health Organisation, a conference working party decided that “all persons engaged” in the tobacco sector could “be licensed at a national or sub-national level.”…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
UNDETERRED by the scientific world’s comprehensive ignorance of the deep-sea environment, the United Nations’ International Seabed Authority is pressing ahead with research projects that will help it estimate the effect of submarine mining on species that have yet to be discovered.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
TIME was that the metal industry was barely regulated, even in picture-postcard countryside you could set up a foundry at will, but now regulators have their fingers on everything, they are even thinking about rules for grabbing manganese nodules from the beds of deep oceans, a job that no company is anywhere near being able to undertake.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
UNDETERRED by the scientific world’s comprehensive ignorance of the deep-sea environment, the United Nations’ International Seabed Authority is pressing ahead with research projects that will help it estimate the effect of submarine mining on species that have yet to be discovered.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE GLOBAL demand for paper is set to surge ahead, despite the harbingers of doom who predicted that IT advances would create a paper-less world, according to the latest World Commodity Survey of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, (UNCTAD).…