Australia has a Bribery of Foreign Public Officials Act that prohibits blandishments to foreign decision makers, influencers or their intermediaries for the purpose of commercial advantage. This includes the awarding of sweet contracts to gain licences for business. We ask Lynas's top legal eagle to reassure us that the company has not fallen foul due to its actions in Malaysia ..
abirached: this week on world business : india needs power to progress, why the country rapidly needs to expand its energy sector. : i think power is possibly unparalleled in what is required now. : why the operty slump in dubai may not be as bad as everyone believes. : two thirds of all the projects within the uae are ongoing and still under construction. : and will the west run out of scientists as kids stop studying the subject. : in the late 80 s about 45,000 people a year took a level physics. that number is down to about 25 to26,000. that s a huge drop! abirached: hello and welcome. i m raya abirached and this is world business, your weekly insight into the global business trends shaping our lives. the indian economy is expected to grow at 6.2 percent this year. but this could be derailed because of the country s chronic power shortage. however india is addressing the issue, bringing online an additional 80 gigawatts of capacity in the next 18 months. reporter:
abirached: this week on world business : india needs power to progress, why the country rapidly needs to expand its energy sector. : i think power is possibly unparalleled in what is required now. : why the property slump in dubai may not be as bad as everyone believes. : two thirds of all the projects within the uae are ongoing and still under construction. : and will the west run out of scientists as kids stop studying the subject. : in the late 80 s about 45,000 people a year took a level physics. that number is down to about 25 to26,000. that s a huge drop! abirached: hello and welcome. i m raya abirached and this is world business, your weekly insight into the global business trends shaping our lives. the indian economy is expected to grow at 6.2 percent this year. but this could be derailed because of the country s chronic power shortage. however india is addressing the issue, bringing online an additional 80 gigawatts of capacity in the next 18 months. reporte