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The Europol police agency has sourced a betting ring engaged in massive Football match-fixing, to a Singapore-based gambling cartel, with Russian participants and European “facilitatorsâ€. … Read More »
Growing inequality has been registered in all countries in an assessment by the OECD, with the drive for economic development off-set by persistent poverty . … Read More »
“Wotch out for the chunder from down under!â€, British tabloids are screaming *; more prosaic but also to the point is this warning from the Eurosurveillance public health service:
“Healthcare institutions are advised to be prepared for a severe norovirus season.†… Read More »
The European Parliament has voted overwhelmingly to tighten its laws against shark-finning for the Asian trade – cutting off the fins of sharks while alive, and dumping the rest of the body in the sea.
 
 
  
The incident renews attention to a by-product of the “Asian Centuryâ€: exponential economic growth in China and other countries of its region has put up incomes, and exacerbated demand for very rare, often bizarre animal products.
It has conservation agencies very alarmed about threats, to extinction, of species including sharks, tigers and elephants, as well as issues of gross cruelty — as in the case of caged bears. … Read More »
The leaders of 49 countries of Asia and Europe have ended a two-day summit, 5-6.11.12, in the Laotian capital Vientiane, declaring for closer cooperative in managing global economic relations. … Read More »
Australian tourism is casting around for some new formulae to get the good times rolling again.
Whether pricing itself out of business, with the high A-dollar, or being cold-shouldered by very many of those leading global travellers, the Europeans, it’s a case of a lead export industry now running at well below optimum levels.
Writer Elena Eichenlaub has been looking at the facts and figures of the business, while taking in some of the sights of the land of overpowering beauty and adventure, and talking to people on the ground – getting things I n perspective.
She says one of the key the answers to the present Australian dilemma, a new tourist trade from Asia, has been sluggish to get going. Elena Eichenlaub writes: … Read More »
The countries of the European Union work together as a bloc, to build a relationship with the South-east Asian region, described in Brussels as “very strongâ€.
Part of it is covered by direct dealings between the EU and a similar, but different grouping, the ten-member Association of South-East Asian Nations (ASEAN).
Jessica Sier reports that very much of the work is now actually changing over to more direct relations between Europe and individual ASEAN members, which better suits their economic realities. … Read More »