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KENYA’S GROWING MIDDLE CLASS IS EXPANDING DAIRY MARKET WITHIN EAST AFRICA’S ECONOMIC POWERHOUSE



IT is fair to say that cheese and other processed dairy products have not traditionally played a key role in tickling the Kenyan collective palate, but that was yesterday. Now, as the country, east Africa’s economic dynamo, grows a middle class interested in consumer consumption, there has been exponential growing demand for dairy products of all kinds.…

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GERMAN GOVERNMENT LAUNCHES CRACKDOWN ON MEAT PLANT CONTRACT STAFFING AND HEALTH RULES AMIDST COVID-19 OUTBREAKS



The cabinet of German Chancellor Angela Merkel today (May 20) announced a “work protection programme for the meat industry”, raising labour standards in a sector which has been criticised for poor health and safety amidst a rash of outbreaks of Covid-19 amongst temporary migrant workers.…

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UK AUDIT SYSTEM REVIEW COULD SHARPEN KEY INSTRUMENT FOR DETECTING COMMERCIAL CRIME



The fact that auditors are struggling to conduct due diligence at companies during the Covid-19 crisis, given a lack of access to documents, offices and staff, is highlighting a key debate that was launched before the pandemic hit – just what standard auditors should target when seeking to prove accounts do not hide wrong-doing or crime.…

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EU OPENS PUPLIC FINANCING COFFERS TO HELP EUROPEAN SECTOR RECOVER FROM COVID-19 BATTERING



 

THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) and its member states are loosening their subsidy rules and reviewing environmental controls as they consider how to help Europe’s automobile sector recover from the beating delivered by the Covid-19 pandemic. With EU passenger car sales tumbling 76.3% year-on-year in April (these figures exclude Britain, with a 97% fall), EU automobile industry association ACEA, parts association CLEPA, repairers and dealers’ federation CECRA and tire makers organisation ETRMA have called on the EU to “consider temporary flexibilities in competition rules” restricting takeovers and subsidies.…

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METAL PACKAGERS INNOVATE TO KEEP AEAD OF PLASTICS COMPETITION THAT HAS BEEN BOOSTED BY COVID-19 PANDEMIC



Metal packaging companies are innovating to make the most of the Covid-19 crisis, as competition intensifies from their rivals in the plastics packaging sector, with consumers seeking protection from the disease buying more wrapped food and more single-use plastics containers being sold and discarded.…

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UNMASKING THE DARK WEB – EASY TO ACCESS; TOUGH TO NEGOTIATE RISK; AND A HONEY PIT FOR FRAUD INVESTIGATORS



WANT to check the dark web for illicit services? Search engines accessible from the public web offer links to the dark web. One example is Finland-based Ahmia (https://ahmia.fi/), which yields interesting results from searches such as https://ahmia.fi/search/?q=hacking. A more recent variant that has attracted attention from the IT security press is Kilos – http://dnmugu4755642434.onion…

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ARTIFICIAL REALITY TECH OFFERS GREAT BENEFITS TO TEXTILE COMPANIES – BUT THEY MUST ADDRESS THE SECURITY VULNERABILITIES



INTRODUCTION – SERIES

A series of reports from WTiN is exploring the need for the textile and clothing sector to protect itself against attacks from cybercriminals as it invests in new transformative Industry 4.0 technologies – extended reality, artificial intelligence and the Internet of Things.…

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EU JUDGE ADVISES USD66 MILLION CROSS BORDER VOLKSWAGEN DIESELGATE CLASS ACTION CASES ARE LEGAL



In a case that could open the floodgates to multimillion dollar cross border lawsuits against auto makers involved in Europe’s 2015 ‘Dieselgate’ scandal, a senior European Union (EU) judge has advised that car buyers should be able to sue Germany-based Volkswagen from a court in neighboring Austria.…

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UKRAINE TOBACCO SECTOR IN TIME OF UNCERTAINTY AS GOVERNMENT REFORMS TAX SYSTEM AND TAKES ON SMUGGLING



With low labour costs and stable local demand, Ukraine has long been one of the favoured bases for major tobacco companies. However, even without taking into account before the disruption caused by the Covid-19 crisis, the market has been in flux in recent months as the new Ukrainian government has made efforts to change tobacco taxation while ramping up its fight against tobacco smuggling.…

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POWERFUL QUANTUM COMPUTING POSES SERIOUS RISKS AS WELL AS SOLUTIONS TO ANTI-MONEY LAUNDERING SECTOR



CYBER-security specialists are warning that AML/CFT officers, law enforcers and IT security managers must prepare now for emerging threats posed by quantum computers, which are already available on the cloud and whose power will grow exponentially in the coming decade. Quantum computing could deliver water-tight solutions for financial institutions seeking dirty and terror money flows, but it could also create hacking tools that could break the toughest IT and cyber-security systems.…

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