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The Ethiopian government is planning to create a system of up to 50 elite boarding schools in its country that will initially supply existing universities with well-educated students aged 18 and above but may later stage higher education courses. It has developed a programme to build these schools in the next five years across the country.…

The global ‘cultured’ artificially-produced meat market may be set to soar amid greater environment-friendly government policies worldwide, investment and the growth in green consumerism, but questions remain if this novel food can be recognised as halal.

Cultured meat (also known as lab-grown or cultivated meat) is typically produced by harvesting cells from a living animal and cultivating them outside the animal’s body using tissue engineering and cellular agriculture to form cuts of meat.…

While the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) is a shadow of its former self in the Middle East, it has spawned global affiliates and is still very much in business, posing ongoing terrorist financing threats.

At the peak of its power as a self-declared Islamic Caliphate in 2015, ISIS controlled around a third of Syria’s territory and 40%of Iraq, with some 7.7 million people under its rule.…

While Europe is abuzz with policy discussions about extending the life of existing nuclear power plants, amidst growing concern about the need to wean the continent from dependence on Russian fossil fuels, this electricity source has continued to enjoy support in Asia.…

 Chinese consumers are displaying an increasingly keen interest in sustainable fashion, being aware from personal experience that pollution can have a disastrous impact not only on the overall environment but also on their health. A Chinese University of Hong Kong report in 2018, for instance, concluded air pollution caused an average 1.1 million premature deaths in China.…

The Russian dairy sector faces an uncertain future under the economic sanctions imposed on Russia following its invasion of Ukraine, although as of late May, its supply chain and markets had started to settle. In December (2021), before President Vladimir Putin sent tanks, troops and missiles into a neighbouring country, Russia’s dairy sector was stable.…

The Covid-19 pandemic has been a disruptive force across the clothing and textile industry, and it has affected consumer taste as well as shaking up supply chains, notably in home textiles, which are increasingly finished by digital printing.

With changes in demand proving very fluid because of lockdown lives lived at home, and an increase in underlying personal stress, digital printing designs have sought to tap a need for feelings of wellness and calm.…

INTRODUCTION

In the competitive and innovative world of smart textile manufacturing and sale, companies strive to maximise functionality and minimise costs. Their ingenuity is the basis of their competitiveness. But as with all industries, some costs are out of their control.…

Digital textile printing will help Malaysia’s textile industry adopt greater automation as it tries to cope with a tight labour supply, the Malaysian Textile Manufacturers Association has said.

Its president Tan Thian Poh said the digital textile print segment will take centerstage, as fabric manufacturers cope with Malaysian government immigration restrictions on foreign workers for all industries.…

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has disrupted energy supplies and raised concerns about the future availability of oil and gas, inflating these commodity prices and hence energy prices, increasing textile and apparel processing costs worldwide. On December 21, as Russia was preparing to send its military into Ukraine-government controlled territory (February 24), Brent crude was selling for USD71.57 a barrel.…