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THE TEXTILE dying industry and its suppliers will have to check compliance with a new European Union (EU) regulation on the marketing and use of explosives precursors, approved by the European Parliament last month (April 16). Its rules have been designed to increase licensing and controls so that terror groups cannot source chemicals they can use to launch violent attacks.…

THE TEXTILE dying industry and its suppliers will have to check compliance with a new European Union (EU) regulation on the marketing and use of explosives precursors, approved by the European Parliament last month (April 16). Its rules have been designed to increase licensing and controls so that terror groups cannot source chemicals they can use to launch violent attacks.…

FRAUD detection is undergoing “significant disruption” with credibility assessment approaching “a significant inflection point” with traditional polygraph solutions being supplanted machine learning and biometric techniques, said leading US fraud examiner Pamela Meyer.

She said the industry is in “a deception arms race”, with fraudsters – as usual – trying to outwit the latest developments.…

THE LONG lines of customer to the cash register in Inditex stores – the giant Spanish company behind High Street fashion brands Zara, Bershka and Pull&Bear (among others) – are also now buying personal care products as well as clothes. They funnel customers through shelves that are not only bursting with low-cost impulse buys, such as hair accessories, smart phone covers and key rings, but now also Inditex scents.…

THE LEGALISATION nationwide of recreational cannabis in Canada last October (2018) was a groundbreaking move – a first for a major western country – and from this coming October 17, at the latest, one that may have significant implications for the beauty business.…

THE RUSSIAN government has in the past decade has a policy priority of re-establishing it country’s industrial base, and reducing its reliance on imports, paid for by Russia’s energy exports.

These goals cover its paints and coatings sector, and by 2021 Sibur, a Russian petrochemical company, plans to launch production of key ingredient maleic anhydride, with a plant in Tobolsk, Siberia, producing up to 45,000 tonnes a year.…

IRISH accountants will be on the frontline of a major investment challenge facing Ireland – how to improve the country’s weak water supply system, without boosting its energy consumption to levels that may fuel climate change.

Combining non-financial with financial reporting is an essential part of making the fine investment judgements that will be needed as Ireland’s government and utilities seek to reform a water system that loses over 40% of its supplies from the national pipe network before it flows from taps.…

HONG Kong accountants may see an increase in demand for non-financial assessments, with the HK Stock Exchange consulting on proposed new environmental, social and governance (ESG) reporting. It is proposing introducing mandatory disclosure requirements to include board statements considering ESG issues; and what reporting principles are used to develop company ESG reports.…

Since China’s Premier Li Keqiang has announced his country’s ‘War on Pollution’ in 2014, the world’s main supplier of synthetic fibres and the second-largest supplier of cotton has consistently reduced its textile sector’s adverse impact on the environment.

The government has introduced a slew of new environmental controls and these continue to be introduced.…

THE CANADIAN auto-sector, encouraged by its federal government, has been pushing ahead with a wide range of initiatives to try and make Canada an international high-tech hub of connected and automated vehicle (CAV) research and development.

These focus on the country’s existing auto-making hub Ontario, with – unusually – the capital Ottawa playing a key auto-manufacturing role, encouraged by its existing local tech sector.…