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INTERFAITH DIALOGUE: EVERYONE’S HEAVEN OR DOOM
“Yes, to coexistence.” It sounds like a platitude – yet sometimes, it is simply a statement describing a most important principle of real life. This statement is written on the entrance of the Max Rayne Hand in Hand School in Jerusalem, that teaches Jews and Arab students side-by-side.…
HAITI’S CLOTHING INDUSTRY HOPES FOR THE BEST AS COUNTRY COPE WITH SHOOTING OF PRESIDENT AND EARTHQUAKE
A wait and see approach is being adopted by officials in Haiti’s apparel and textile industry following the July 7 assassination of President Jovenel Moïse, which came as the country struggled to cope with the continuing impact of the Covid-19 pandemic.…
KROLL SAYS THE COST OF AML FINES WORLDWIDE IS INCREASING
The value of fines issued globally for money laundering offences last year (2020) was five times higher than 2019, new figures reveal.
International financial analysts Kroll’s Global Enforcement Review 2021 [1] have identified a constant number of fines issued worldwide for ML– 45 in both 2019 and 2020, but said their combined value soared from USD444 million to USD2.2 billion, influenced, Kroll concluded, by “numerous substantial fines by Nordic regulators”.…
COVID-19 PANDEMIC INCREASES DEMAND FOR CLOTHING SECTOR BODY SCANNERS
More than two decades have passed since the first 3D body scanners were developed for the apparel industry, but technologists and designers continue to find new ways to hone the systems in response to rising demand among brands and manufacturers for direct-to-consumer sales.…
EUROPEAN COURT OF JUSTICE MAY FORCE ITALY TO END DRICRIMINATION AGAINST FOREIGN LECTURERS
The president of the association of foreign lecturers in Italy (Associazione Lettori di Lingua Straniera in Italia – ALLSI), David Petrie, has welcomed the European Commission (EC)’s referral of Italy to the European Court of Justice (ECJ) for its continued discrimination of foreign lecturers working in Italian universities.…
SPAIN’S COATINGS SECTOR STRUGGLES WITH SUPPLY ISSUES AS IT FIGHTS FROM COVID-19 SLUMP
The Spanish paint industry has been suffering from a major raw material supply shortage as it seeks to build back from a tough year in 2020, when sales were depressed by the Covid-19 pandemic. The national industry association, the ASEFAPI (Asociacion Española de Fabricantes de Pinturas y Tintas de Imprimir) has been releasing monthly bulletins on the raw material supply problem.…
EU ENERGY TARGETS ACHIEVABLE SAY ENERGY ASSOCIATIONS – BUT MAJOR INVESTMENTS ARE REQUIRED
EUROPEAN energy experts say the European Union (EU)’s green energy targets within a new climate law to cut carbon emissions at least 55% by 2030 compared to 1990 levels will be challenging but achievable. It is a significant steepening of ambition compared to the EU’s existing legislation, reducing emissions by at least 32.5% by 2030 from 1990 levels.…
ERP DEVELOPERS TAILOR PROGRAMMES TO TEXTILE AND CLOTHING TO OFFER COMPETITIVE EDGE TO THIS DIVERSE SECTOR
INTRODUCTION
TEXTILES and clothing manufacture and sales are all about leveraging resources, from creative talent to quality materials and sophisticated technology. So, enterprise resource planning programmes (ERP) have been attractive for the past 20 years or more and have become an increasingly important tool of manufacturers and brands.…
EU SINGLE MARKET FOR HEMP VAPES IS OPEN FOR BUSINESS
Last November (2020), the European Court of Justice (ECJ) ruled that cannabidiol (CBD) liquids for e-cigarettes that were lawfully produced in a European Union (EU) member state are not narcotics and can be sold in any other EU country. The ruling was welcomed by the EU CBD sector, which has said it helps open-up the European market to products that often fall into a legal grey zone due to their origins in hemp, or cannabis with little or no intoxication effects.…
EQUATORIAL GUINEA: HIGHER EDUCATION IS GOING ONLINE, BUT WEB ACCESS CHALLENGES REMAIN
The higher education system in Equatorial Guinea has been trying to move studies online because of Covid-19, but students still struggle to get computers and an affordable and fast Internet.
It is hard to ignore the socio-economic backdrop of Equatorial Guinea, Africa’s only independent Spanish-speaking country, when assessing its higher education.…