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NEPAL GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS HOPE AML/CFT REFORMS OF PAST DECADE WILL PROMPT POSITIVE APG REPORT IN UPCOMIGN REVIEW
ANTI-money laundering authorities in Nepal hope an upcoming 2020-21 review by the Asia/Pacific Group on Money Laundering (APG) will conclude this Himalayan state is at least largely compliant with all FATF recommendations and special recommendations, although experts admit the review will be tough.…
NEPAL GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS HOPE AML/CFT REFORMS OF PAST DECADE WILL PROMPT POSITIVE APG REPORT IN UPCOMIGN REVIEW
ANTI-money laundering authorities in Nepal hope an upcoming 2020-21 review by the Asia/Pacific Group on Money Laundering (APG) will conclude this Himalayan state is at least largely compliant with all FATF recommendations and special recommendations, although experts admit the review will be tough.…
PLAIN PAPER PACKAGING RULES GROW – BUT INDUSTRY FAR FROM CONVINCED THAT THEY ARE EFFECTIVE
PLAIN packaging rules, or approximations, are growing around the world, but the tobacco sector still argues that these controls are over-reaches that do not reduce smoking and instead encourage counterfeiting and smuggling.
Since January 2017, French smokers have been buying non-branded packs of cigarettes, seeing only a warning picture with text about how tobacco consumption affects people’s health, along with the name of the manufacturer in a simple typeface.…
SOUTH ASIAN DEMAND FOR PAINTS AND COATINGS GROWS, BUT REGIONAL TRADE STILL NEEDS DEVELOPMENT
THE PAINT and coatings industry in south Asia maybe thriving, but regional trade between countries is not – being restricted to exports of pigments, resins, solvents and additives from India to its neighbouring countries. Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Maldives, Bhutan and Afghanistan, as well as regional giant India, are all members of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC), but they import most of their paint and coating raw materials.…
SOUTH ASIA COSMETICS MARKET CONTINUES TO GROW AS MIDDLE CLASS TASTES EXPAND
SOUTH Asia’s growing personal care product sector is of increasing importance to international brands, with growing middle classes among vast populations creating a honeypot market with consumers, many accustomed to English-language marketing.
As the region’s hub and overwhelmingly most populous country, India’s beauty and personal care industry will generate sales worth USD13.3 billion in 2016, growing by 14.2% year-on-year, according to UK-based market research firm Euromonitor International.…
IN EARTHQUAKE-STRICKEN NEPAL, INTERNATIONAL EMERGENCY RESPONSE NURSES HAVE TOUGH TIME ACCESSING VICTIMS
In the dozen or so days after a devastating earthquake killed more than 8,000 across Nepal on April 25, many major international search and rescue teams came and left, but they have been followed by a second wave of emergency response nurses belonging to smaller non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and even nurses volunteering alone.…
NEPAL MEAT INDUSTRY DEVASTATED BY EARTHQUAKE
Authorities in the earthquake-stricken Kathmandu have banned the sale of meat and the slaughtering of livestock including poultry across the Nepali capital, because of concerns about disease. Meat traders in the rest of Nepal have already been affected by falling sales and depressed prices.…
ROW OVER INDIA-BANGLADESH JUTE TRADE COULD BECOME BITTER
A dispute over the amount of Bangladesh-made jute being exported to India is increasing tensions between the two countries who are accusing each other of unfair trade practices, while at the same time subsidising their industries.
“The import [of jute from Bangladesh] is rising every year and it is a matter of concern,” Santosh Gangwar, India’s minister for textiles told the Lok Sabha, the lower house of the Indian parliament in March.…
ADB TO HELP SOUTH ASIA SLOW SPREAD OF LIVESTOCK DISEASES
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) is to work with the Japan Fund for Poverty Reduction to help south Asian nations slow the spread of livestock diseases.
In India, livestock sector losses from foot-and-mouth disease alone are estimated at around USD4.5 billion a year, according to the ADB.…
NEPAL’S CHYANGRA PASHMINA SET TO GROW
NEPAL pashmina fibre is “exotically delicate, weightless and the finest natural insulation fibre of the world,” according to the Nepal Pashmina Industries Association’s (NPIA) general secretary Vijoy Kumar Dugar. This reputation has helped Nepal producers carve out a niche markets for pashmina knitwear and traditional shawl exports.…
NEPAL’S RMG EXPORTS RISE BECAUSE OF WEAKER CURRENCY
NEPAL’S ready-made garment exports shot up by 17.8% during the first two months of the country’s current fiscal year starting July 16 due to currency depreciation, the Garment Association of Nepal (GAN) has claimed.
The increase follows a 10-12% fall in exports in the last fiscal year (2012-3), GAN general secretary Ashok Kumar Agrawal told just-style.…
NEPAL: GARMENT SECTOR EYES MARKET DIVERSIFICATION AFTER RECORD EXPORT DROP
NEPAL’S ready-to-wear garment sector wants to diversify its target markets away from a past reliance on America, prompted a slump in exports, which have fallen by more than half over the past five years. The Garment Association Nepal (GAN) general secretary Ashok Kumar Agrawal blamed decreasing demand from American consumers and told just-style the industry is hoping to “diversify export markets to Australia, Canada and Japan, making use of duty free privileges while increasing exports to the EU,” where they enter duty free under the Everything But Arms deal.…
NEPALI WOMEN SHOW THEIR ENTREPRENEURIAL POWER
IN Nepal, women habitually beat men when it comes to doing business. They generate 6% more profits than men, according to a study by the International Financial Corporation (IFC), an arm of the World Bank. “Nearly half of Nepal’s women are economically active and many rural households are female-headed,” said Puja Tandon, co-founder of Nepal-based Beed Management, an international management consulting firm.…
BHUTAN'S HYDRO-POWER SECTOR SURGES, BUT MOST VILLAGERS ARE LEFT IN THE DARK
BY KENCHO WANGDI
HYDRO-ELECTRIC power is of critical importance to the tiny landlocked nation Bhutan, hidden deep in the folds of the Himalayas, with economic and military giants China to the north and India to the south. Indeed, its government regards hydropower energy as being instrumental in shifting the country from being recognised by the United Nations as a least developed into an emerging developing country in the south-east Asia.…
NEPALI YOUTH RELEASED FROM MAOIST MILITARY LIFE
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE UNITED Nations has started coordinating the training and education of a wasted human resource in Nepal – former teenage soldiers serving in the Maoist side of the recent civil war. Around 3,000 young men and women aged under 16 were found in the ranks of the Maoist army when a ceasefire was announced in May 2006.…
CAMBODIA/NEPAL
Keith Nuthall
THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) Council of Ministers has given the European Commission a mandate to open negotiations on the renewal of two Agreements on Trade in Textile Products, between the EU and the Cambodian and Nepali governments.…