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ASIAN REGULATORY ROUND UP – CHINESE GOVERNMENT CREATES 46 ECOMMERCE ZONES TO FIGHT COVID-19 ECONOMIC IMPACT
THE CHINESE government has announced that it will add another 46 cross-border e-commerce pilot zones in the country, bringing the number to 105, according to the State Council, effectively mainland China’s cabinet. The move is designed to help revive China’s export industries, which have been damaged by the Covid-19 pandemic.…
NORTH AFRICA’S PAINT AND COATINGS INDUSTRIES HAVE VARIED LATENT STRENGTHS AS THEY FACE COVID-19 CRISIS
Paint and coating manufacturers and retailers in North Africa have been struggling with the outbreak of the Covid-19 virus, just as have their counterparts in other regions, however some markets and industries in the region seem better placed to cope with the pandemic’s economic impact than others.…
UNMASKING THE DARK WEB – EASY TO ACCESS; TOUGH TO NEGOTIATE RISK; AND A HONEY PIT FOR FRAUD INVESTIGATORS
WANT to check the dark web for illicit services? Search engines accessible from the public web offer links to the dark web. One example is Finland-based Ahmia (https://ahmia.fi/), which yields interesting results from searches such as https://ahmia.fi/search/?q=hacking. A more recent variant that has attracted attention from the IT security press is Kilos – http://dnmugu4755642434.onion…
ARTIFICIAL REALITY TECH OFFERS GREAT BENEFITS TO TEXTILE COMPANIES – BUT THEY MUST ADDRESS THE SECURITY VULNERABILITIES
INTRODUCTION – SERIES
A series of reports from WTiN is exploring the need for the textile and clothing sector to protect itself against attacks from cybercriminals as it invests in new transformative Industry 4.0 technologies – extended reality, artificial intelligence and the Internet of Things.…
COVID-19 SHUTDOWN LEAVES NIGERIAN STUDENTS AND ACADEMICS STRUGGLING TO WORK BECAUSE OF POOR INTERNET INFRASTRUCTURE
Nigeria’s universities have been struggling to work online following the March 20 federal government shutdown of all education institutions to restrict public gatherings and curb the spread of the coronavirus. The shutdown has left campuses deserted as students returned to their various homes.…
SOMALIA UNIVERSITIES MOVE TEACHING ONLINE AS BUILDINGS CLOSE TO FIGHT COVOD-19
Universities in Somalia have resorted to online teaching as the country enforces social distancing measures to safeguard citizens from contracting Covid-19, with institutions across this usually fractious country following the lead of the federal government.
It closed all schools and universities under its control for an initial 15 days on March 19, hoping to slowing the disease’s spread.…
EU JUDGE ADVISES USD66 MILLION CROSS BORDER VOLKSWAGEN DIESELGATE CLASS ACTION CASES ARE LEGAL
In a case that could open the floodgates to multimillion dollar cross border lawsuits against auto makers involved in Europe’s 2015 ‘Dieselgate’ scandal, a senior European Union (EU) judge has advised that car buyers should be able to sue Germany-based Volkswagen from a court in neighboring Austria.…
SCIENTISTS AND RESEARCHERS DEVELOP NEW MEDICAL ADHESIVES THAT CAN HELP HEAL MILLIONS OF PATIENTS
While medical teams worldwide seek to free up hospital beds to care for Covid-19 victims, attention is turning to effective wound care for patients to hasten healing following surgery, avoid cross contamination in a hospital and enable proper care at home following direct clinical supervision.…
GERMAN PAINT INDUSTRY HIT BY COVID-19 AFTER SUFFERING DECLINE IN SALES DURING 2019
GERMANY’S strong paint and coatings industry is facing a significant loss in sales because of the global Covid-19 pandemic – Germany expects a fall in economic output of up to 20% in 2020. Industry experts expect that the country’s coatings and paint industry will suffer accordingly.…
VATICAN’S FIU RAIDED AND IN HOT WATER – BUT IS IT THE VICTIM OF CURIA POWER POLITICS?
The suspension for alleged corruption by senior officials at a financial intelligence unit (FIU), the cornerstone of any jurisdiction’s AML work, would be shocking. But if those suspensions were at the FIU of the world’s only purely theocratic state, such reports would sound like the work of thriller fiction.…