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CORRUPTION? NOT IN MY BACK YARD!
BY ANDREW GREEN
SEPTEMBER 17, 2012
RAYMOND Qatahar, a first-year law student at Uganda’s Makerere University, is eager to be able finally to use Not In My Country. The website launched in May asks university students in Uganda to report corruption in higher education – such as professors and lecturers trading higher grades for money or sex – and lets students rate classroom experiences.…
CROATIA EU ACCESSION MEANS OPPORTUNITIES FOR COSMETICS MANUFACTURERS
BY MARK ROWE
COSMETICS companies looking to expand sales and manufacturing in Croatia are looking for new opportunities as the ex-Yugoslav country prepares to join the European Union (EU) next year. With a population of 4.9 million, and an expanding, educated middle class, Croatia is an increasingly attractive market for cosmetics and personal care products.…
WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO FOSSIL FUEL SUBSIDIES?
BY DAVID HAYHURST, IN PARIS
THREE years ago, the Group of Twenty (G20) finance ministers and central bank governors stated the organisation’s intention was to "rationalise and phase out over the medium term inefficient fossil fuel subsidies that encourage wasteful consumption".…
CANADIANS STILL BUYING PRINT OVER E-BOOKS - BUT FOR HOW LONG?
BY MJ DESCHAMPS
DESPITE the hype around the growing popularity of electronic books (e-books) in recent years, a new study published today (October 10) has found that the majority of Canadians still prefer their books in print format – at least for now.…
EU ROUNDUP: HOW TO KEEP YOUR MATERIALS CONFIDENTIAL
BY ROB STOKES
WILL your raw materials manifest effectively be open to the world to see? The European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) is to make more information from registration dossiers available on its website from November. The ECHA says this will include the registrant’s name, the registration number of the substance, and other details usually covered in a familiar Safety Data Sheet.…
EUROPEAN ELECTRICITY COMPANIES ASK FOR INTEGRATION OF ENERGY GOALS IN NEW EU WATER POLICY PAPER
BY CARMEN PAUN, IN BRUSSELS
JUST two months before the European Commission is expected to release its ‘Blueprint to Safeguard Europe’s Waters’ – a policy paper aimed at strengthening the European Union’s (EU) water policy – electricity companies are voicing their concerns that a largely environmental approach might harm energy goals, including security of supply.…
BOOSTING AUDIT IN THE LAND OF HAPPINESS
BY TENZING LAMSANG in BHUTAN
Tenzing Lamsang reports from Bhutan on an ACCA Fellow’s roles in fostering good audit and accounting practice there and throughout Asia.
HE displays a tough streak in combatting fraud, corruption and governmental waste, but also a mellower side in his public service ethic and support for his country’s pursuit of happiness.…
EUROPEAN COGENERATION TECHNOLOGY
COGENERATION, or rather trigeneration, units that cooled, heated and powered the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic games won plaudits if no gold medals for the manufacturer – America’s GE – but neatly symbolised the spread of CHP into mainstream and niche applications.…
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.…
ANTI-FRAUD TECHNOLOGY BECOMES MORE SAVVY - BUT SO DO FRAUDSTERS
BY MJ DESCHAMPS
DETECTING and monitoring fraud, money laundering and other criminal activities is a daunting task for financial institutions, and instances of breaches have only increased as the number of platforms across which institutions do business continues to grow. At the same time, software systems and other technologies that can help identify cases of fraud are becoming highly advanced – but, as anti-fraud systems evolve, fraudsters are evolving with them.…