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The Russian government is to draft fresh state measures to support domestic producers of wool and flax fibres.

Acting on direction from the office of President Vladimir Putin, the Russian ministry of industry and trade will boost Russian wool production through the creation of special trading centres that will buy wool from farmers at prices that are high enough to encourage production.…

Bangladesh’s accident-prone clothing and textile industry is struggling to meet safety requirements as factory inspections by North American and European retail groupings gather pace. These are being promoted by international safety initiatives the Alliance for Bangladesh Worker Safety and the Accord on Fire and Building Safety in Bangladesh.…

RECENT scandals involving the mis-selling of financial products, the rigging of the LIBOR interest rate for interbank lending, insider fraud, and bribery and corruption throughout and beyond companies’ supply chains are costing organisations dearly both financially, reputationally and legally.

In the US, the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) lies in wait for wrongdoers; in the UK it is the 2010 Bribery Act.…

IT is a truism to say that adding new services to telecommunications businesses will make them more complicated to run. But it is not a given that they will become more successful.

To do this, telcos will need to synthesise the management of their various arms, as they move into the digital space of Internet, television, social media, content and more.…

EVEN if the European Union (EU) has set energy targets for 2020 and the European Commission has proposed new ones for 2030, the investors still lack the confidence that they need to put their money into energy generation projects in Europe.…

Law enforcement and the judiciary are under threat in Turkey amid political wrangling and corruption probes. Thousands of police officers have been reassigned, the deputy of a financial crime unit has been dismissed, and the independence of the judiciary has been brought into question.…

THE THREAT that an ageing population will create ‘silver tsunami’ of patients causing funding pressures for Singapore’s healthcare sector came under the spotlight at an Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA) Singapore Health Conference 2014. Nearly 100 financial and healthcare professionals attended the half-day event on February 18 at the city state’s fabled Raffles Hotel.…

SOURCING in Asia has been a merry-go-round for many buyers in recent years. As the era of low-cost Chinese manufacturing draws more or less to a close, several countries have leveraged their low cost labour to capture a significant volume of the world’s lower end knitwear manufacturing, while others have sought to extend their reach into higher value-added manufacturing by investing in infrastructure and training.…

SOURCING in Asia has been a merry-go-round for many buyers in recent years. As the era of low-cost Chinese manufacturing draws more or less to a close, several countries have leveraged their low cost labour to capture a significant volume of the world’s lower end knitwear manufacturing, while others have sought to extend their reach into higher value-added manufacturing by investing in infrastructure and training.…

AUSTRALIAN beef and veal exporters have been buoyed by data from the Australian Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry (DAFF) showing record export numbers for the industry in 2013. The country exported nearly 1.1 million tonnes of chilled and frozen beef and veal in 2013, up 14% from the 963,779t achieved in 2012.…