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EU COUNTRIES FAILING TO COMPLY WITH PUBLIC UBO REGISTER RULES
Long after the January 10, 2020, deadline set by the European Union’s (EU) 5th anti-money laundering directive (5AMLD) (1) for member states to establish public ultimate beneficial ownership (UBO) registers, a Transparency International (TI) report (2) has alleged widespread non-compliance.…
VIETNAM’S PAINT SECTOR HIT BY COVID-19, BUT LOOKS FORWARD TO MEDIUM-TERM GREEN GROWTH
Covid-19 made 2020 an incredibly disruptive year for the global manufacturing sector and Vietnam’s paint and coatings sector did not escape the pandemic impact. This was despite that this south-east Asian country had an apparently low impact from the disease, with just 9,565 cases (as of June 9, 2021) and just 55 deaths from a 98 million population, albeit with a rash of new cases last month (June).…
IRELAND’S FISH FARMING EXPERTISE GIVES INDUSTRY EDGE IN GLOBAL MARKETS
The May (2021) acquisition by Irish animal health products firm Bimeda, of Seattle, USA-based AquaTactics Fish Health was low profile, but significant in highlighting Irish ambitions in the global aquaculture industry. The sector is growing globally, with production increasing to replace declining wild fishery stocks, in many cases fished to their maximum sustainable levels.…
ASIAN INTERNATIONAL REGULATORY ROUNDUP - TAIWAN UPGRADES CHEMICAL SAFETY CONTROLS
Taiwan’s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has announced amendments to the island’s Registration Procedures for New Chemical Substances and Existing Chemical Substances. In addition to delaying a registration period for the standard registration of existing chemical substances in response to the Covid-19 pandemic, it has added a number of simplified administrative and convenient measures to optimise registration applications, review and reporting requirements.…
EUROPEAN DAIRY INDUSTRY CONFIDENT IT WILL MEET EU CLIMATE LAW GOALS
EUROPEAN dairy experts say that the European Union (EU) climate law’s target to cut carbon emissions at least 55% by 2030 compared to 1990 levels, compared to “between 50% and 55%” in the original proposal (1) and just 32.5% by 2030 in the 2018 law (2), will be a challenge, but one they can meet.…
SÃO TOMÉ & PRÍNCIPE TAPS INTERNATIONAL SUPPORT TO GROW ITS NEW HIGHER EDUCATION SYSTEM
The under-developed system of higher education of African archipelago country São Tomé & Príncipe is growing slowly amidst expanding demand, being assisted by international projects and funds.
One major potential initiative that may cause significant progress, however, involves this Lusophone country being chosen by the Pan African Institute for Development (PAID) to host a future International University of Development Sciences.…
ACADEMICS AT UGANDA’S MAKERERE UNIVERSITY TAKE ADVANTAGE OF COVID-19 TEACHING LULL TO BOOST RESEARCH OUTPUT
Academics at Uganda’s Makerere University appear to have taken advantage of the lull in face-to-face teaching caused by Covid-19 to increase their research output, a self-assessment study has suggested. Research publications from Kampala-based Makerere, one of Africa’s oldest universities, rose from 992 papers in 2019 to 1,301 in 2020. …
GRAPHENE’S WONDER MATERIAL QUALITIES SPARKS WIDESPREAD INNOVATION IN TEXTILE SECTOR
INTRODUCTION
Graphene has been hailed as a wonder material by its promoters – and for once in the tarnished history of scientific hyperbole – these claims seem to have significant merit. The reality is that graphene does not only offer textile manufacturers the ability to improve the functionality of their products, it helps them achieve this in an environmentally sustainable way.…
TUNISIAN GARMENT INDUSTRY FIGHTS RED TAPE TO OPEN NEW FACTORIES
Despite government red-tape, Tunisian garment and denim companies looking to expand production away from Tunisia’s traditional industrial hubs, into lower cost more rural and remote regions.
Tunisia’s textile and garment manufacturing has been especially focused on coastal towns of Monastir and Sfax, creating labour supply and cost challenges.…
ILLEGAL DRUGS ARE STILL THE LARGEST SOURCE OF DIRTY MONEY WORLDWIDE
The narcotics trade was a prime motivator to enact global anti-money laundering regulations to curb dirty money flows. Over 30 years later, drug trafficking is still considered the largest transnational crime by international law enforcement agencies. It is worth an estimated USD344 billion-a-year, according to Interpol, followed by counterfeiting crimes (USD288 billion) and human trafficking (USD157 billion).…