Search Results for: Malaysia

BY MARK ROWE
GOVERNMENT authorities in Malaysia have banned a range of books based on fantasy and horror. The move appears to mainly target Malay and Chinese literature, but the vague guidelines have raised concerns amongst local publishers and retailers that English language books may also be blocked from sale.…

BY MARK ROWE
THE MALAYSIAN Textile Manufacturers Association has warned that the country’s branded clothing industry could become extinct within 10 years because of the oncoming removal of the export quota system under the WTO’s Agreement on Textiles and Clothing. It particularly fears that this liberalisation will allow China, with its low labour costs, to dominate global export markets.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL in Paris, ALAN OSBORN in London, MARK ROWE in Singapore, ED PETERS and DON GASPER in Hong Kong, RICHARD HURST in Johannesburg, MONICA DOBIE and PHILIP FINE in Montreal, MATTHEW BRACE in Brisbane and ALEX SMAILES in Port of Spain.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) Council of Ministers has approved European Commission proposals to abandon moves to extend existing anti-dumping duties on imports of polyester textured filament yarn (PTY) from Taiwan, Indonesia, Thailand and Malaysia beyond 2005 and 2006, when the tariffs are due to expire.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE INTERNATIONAL Primate Protection League has welcomed CITES secretary general Willem Wijnstekers’s call for prosecutions over the illegal sale of four young wild gorillas from Nigeria to Malaysia, via South Africa. League chairwoman Shirley McGreal told BBC Wildlife the intervention made court action “more likely,” although she has criticised the case’s handling.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
MOVES by the European Commission to extend anti-dumping duties on imports into the European Union (EU) of polyester textured filament yarn (PTY) from Taiwan, Indonesia, Thailand and Malaysia have been abandoned. This follows a note from (CIRFS) the International Rayon and Synthetic Fibres Committee that it was formally withdrawing a request for expiry reviews of the anti-dumping measures that could have led to their extension.…

BY MARK ROWE
MALAYSIA lost RM1.2 billion (US$350 million) in tax revenue last year as a result of an increase in trade in contraband and counterfeit cigarettes. The Domestic Trade and Consumer Affairs Ministry said smugglers were exploiting poor enforcement at major ports in both the north and south of the country to bring in contraband and counterfeit cigarettes.…

BY MARK ROWE
THE SCHOOL textbook and related academic reading material has been a traditionally lucrative and never-ending market for publishers. But the growing phenomenon of e-learning is opening up new dimensions in this field across the globe.

The reason is the sheer scale of future need for education in developing regions, particularly in Asia where the potential numbers of higher education students is staggering.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union Council of Ministers has agreed a complicated, but flexible, set of anti-dumping duties to be levied upon certain flat rolled products of iron or non-alloy steel from Bulgaria, South Africa, Serbia & Montenegro and Taiwan; plus certain iron and steel tube and pipe fittings from Thailand, the Czech Republic, Malaysia, South Korea, Russia and Slovakia.…

BY SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYAKA
A CONSORTIUM has been selected to build the IND Rupees 12 billion greenfield Hyderabad international airport, Indian press reports claim. They quote officials saying GMR Vasavi Infrastructure and Malaysia Airport Holding Berhard have clinched the deal, under a public private partnership model.…