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SATYAM SCAM ENCOURAGES ANTI-MONEY LAUNDERING REFORMS IN INDIA
BY RAGHAVENDRA VERMA
INDIA’S largest ever financial fraud, the US$1 billion-plus Satyam computer company scam, where top management inflated revenues and laundered money for their personal gains, has shocked the Indian government into reassessing the efficacy of laws and regulations concerning corporate governance and anti money laundering (AML).…
SEVEN & I HOLDINGS ONLINE LAUNCH JAPAN INTERNET MALL
BY GAVIN BLAIR
JAPAN-based food retailer Seven & I Holdings has opened a new online mall, ‘Seven Net Shopping’, stocked with five million items.
The service consolidates the online presence of the group’s department stores, supermarkets and convenience stores, while adding 32 outside specialist retailers, including record labels and an animation studio.…
MOROCCAN PAINT SECTOR DODGES GLOBAL RECESSION BULLET
BY PAUL COCHRANE
MOROCCO’S 150,000 tonnes per year decorative paint market, worth Moroccan Dirham (MAD) 2 billion (GBPounds 157.4 million), grew by an estimated 5 to 8% in 2008, but plunged by 30% in December in the wake of the financial crisis, according to paint manufacturer Hempel Morocco (NOTE – SPELLING IS CORRECT).…
INDIGENOUS DIETS KEEPING TRIBES HEALTHY - BUT FOODS DISAPPEARING
BY KEITH NUTHALL
CONSERVATIONISTS may detest the notion of jungle food – cooking rain forest species for the dinner table. But harvested sustainably, the plants, animals and birds of jungles, deserts, ice caps and steppes inhabited by traditional societies offer excellent nutrition.…
USA: Michigan University sells digital titles on Booksurge
By Emma Jackson
The University of Michigan’s library has partnered with Booksurge, the print-on-demand service owned by Internet retailer Amazon Inc., to make thousands of rare and out-of-print books available for one-off printing through digitisation.
Customers will be able to browse over 400,00 titles on Amazon.com,…
EUROPEAN COMMISSION TO PROBE GOOGLE LIBRARY PROJECT
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission is to launch an inquiry into the digitalisation of millions of books by Google, without the permission of their rights holders, to see whether the European Union (EU) should protect authors and publishers.
This follows a request made yesterday (28-3) by the EU Council of Ministers meeting in Brussels.…
OIL TANKERS OFFERED ADDITIONAL SAFETY OFF WEST AFRICA BY SEARCH-AND-RESCUE DEAL
BY KEITH NUTHALL
OIL tankers sailing past the often unstable shores of west Africa will be safer in future, following the commissioning of a fully-equipped regional Maritime Rescue Coordination Centre in Monrovia, Liberia, coordinated by the International Maritime Organisation. The centre will help ships in distress off the Ivory Coast, Ghana, Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone.…
HOW CHINA'S GOVERNMENT STIMULUS PACKAGE IS HELPING THE RECYCLED METALS IMPORT MARKET RECOVER
BY MARK GODFREY
BUSINESS remains slow in Jinghai, a slice of industrial land a couple of hours east of Beijing designated as one of China’s key recycling belts. Business was brisk here up to October 2008, the date given locally as the beginning of a savage dip in demand for recyclables.…
SEVEN MACRO TRENDS IN THE TEXTILES AND APPAREL INDUSTRY 2008
BY LEE ADENDORFF
IF there was a year when long-term textile and clothing market forecasters missed by a mile, 2008 was it. Forecasts made in 2007 were dominated by looming concerns about trade restrictions, investment in technology, a potential slow-down of production and a consolidation of business investment but no one predicted what devastating effects an unexpected recession would have on the textiles and apparel sector.…
EUROPEAN INITIATIVE SEEKS TO PRESERVE OBSOLETE DIGITAL WRITTEN WORKS
BY MARK ROWE
AS book reading online enters the mainstream, one question that has plagued academic and cultural journals for years has re-emerged: digital obsolescence. Publishers are concerned about keeping pace with technological advances and preserving access to digital material.
No sooner, and at significant expense, is literature scanned and digitally secured in a given format, than it risks being overtaken by the latest storage versions.…