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INTERNATIONAL REGULATORY ROUND UP – EFSA SAYS ASPARTAME IS SAFE
THE EUROPEAN Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has concluded that the sweetener aspartame is safe for human consumption at current recommended levels of consumption. Following a review of evidence provided both by animal and human studies, EFSA experts have ruled out a potential risk of aspartame causing damage to genes and inducing cancer for most consumers.…
NEW DELHI STATE GOVERNMENT ANTI-CORRUPTION PROGRAMME COULD BE NATIONAL BLUE-PRINT
INDIA’S Delhi capital region is trying to create a more ethical business environment, with a newly elected government shaking up an old corrupt policing system. In addition to practising higher standards of public probity and financial transparency, it is using unconventional tactics to prompt citizens to undertake sting operations on bribe seekers.…
MONETISING THE DIGITAL LIFESTYLE - ORACLE
BY ROBERT STOKES
AS businesses and consumers increasingly adopt a ‘digital lifestyle’ using mobile platforms such as tablets and smartphones, communication services providers (CSPs) are asking how best to monetise services while lowering costs. CSPs want to maximise yield per customer and reduce the churn for users consuming a range of data, voice and SMS text services.…
HANDS-OFF APPROACH IN UK MEANS NEW GAS STORAGE INVESTMENT IS UNLIKELY
BY ROBERT STOKES
THE UNITED Kingdom imports more than 50% of its demand for natural gas and this will exceed 85% by 2030 according to National Grid, which owns and operates Britain’s high pressure National Transmission System (NTS) for gas.…
MALAYSIAN FINISHING INDUSTRY OUTLOOK OPTIMISTIC DESPITE CHALLENGING CLIMATE
BY LEE ADENDORFF
A country famed for its beautiful traditional ‘batik,’ Malaysia is also home to a highly specialised textiles industry and these niche skills may prove vital for the country’s numerous finishing factories in what is shaping up to a challenging year.…
EUROPE’S COGENERATION MARKET NEEDS A BIG PUSH FROM GOVERNMENTS TO PROSPER IN THE LONG TERM
IT is a curious irony that for an industry as technical as cogeneration that maybe the biggest handicap to its sustained growth in Europe is actually emotional. Both commercial markets and governments are swayed by sentiment as well as hard cash – and currently both influences are failing to pull in co-gen’s favour.…
THE EUROPEAN SYSTEM OF ACCOUNTS WILL CHANGE FROM OCTOBER
THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) will update its System of National and Regional Accounts (ESA) for public administrations across the EU from October 2014, the European Commission has announced: “The objective of the change is to bring these essential macroeconomic statistics in line with the current economic environment,” said François Lequiller, director for government finance statistics at Eurostat. …
BRITISH REDUCTION IN SUSPICIOUS TRANSACTION REPORT RETENTION TIMES NOT FOLLOWED BY OTHER MAJOR JURISDICTIONS
WITH the UK’s Serious Organised Crime Agency (SOCA) agreeing that all Suspicious Activity Reports (SARs) it holds on its ELMER database will be deleted once they are older than six years, a long British debate balancing the needs of law enforcement and privacy has come to an end (at least temporarily).…
EUROPE’S COGENERATION MARKET NEEDS A BIG PUSH FROM GOVERNMENTS TO PROSPER IN THE LONG TERM
IT is a curious irony that for an industry as technical as cogeneration that maybe the biggest handicap to its sustained growth in Europe is actually emotional. Both commercial markets and governments are swayed by sentiment as well as hard cash – and currently both influences are failing to pull in co-gen’s favour.…
FALLING LIRA PROMPTS PREDICTIONS OF INCREASED TURKISH EXPORTS
Turkey’s textile and clothing industry is aiming for higher growth in its exports during 2014, with a drop in the value of the Turkish Lira over recent months a key factor, WTiN has been told.
The Lira fell to a new all-time low of TRY2.33 against the dollar on Friday.…