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As offshore wind takes off, China’s expanding wind turbine and clean energy manufacturing sectors are demanding more specialised coatings. China is the biggest market in the world for wind power installations: Chinese installations match the figure for the entire European Union (EU) according to the EU Chamber of Commerce in China.…

COTTON

Cotton maybe one of the most popular fibres for clothing and accessories because of its universality, timelessness, and availability, but this past year has shown that the fibre is not immune to volatile economic markets. World cotton production fell by 17% to 21.65 million tonnes in 2015-2016, the lowest volume since 2003-2004, according to the International Cotton Advisory Committee (ICAC).…

CONFECTIONERY and sweet bakery industry chiefs have moved beyond their initial shock at the UK Brexit referendum vote to leave the European Union (EU) to consider their best case scenarios for a future with Britain outside the 28 country bloc.

As an immediate step, employers and industry associations have been trying to reassure staff who are non-UK EU nationals working in Britain about their status.…

AS Theresa May became British Prime Minister on July 13, 2016, she has admitted she faces the toughest of briefs. Unravelling 43 years of close legal relations with the UK’s European Union (EU) neighbours will be complex, difficult, and involve some serious economic and financial losses on the way.…

MONGOLIA’S raw cashmere production is growing. The number of goats supplying this luxury fibre increased by 2.9 million to 24.9 million in 2015 compared with 2014, bringing production to 7,470 tonnes last year, according to Mongolia-based Monital Cashmere.

Indeed, the country’s major cashmere manufacturer the Gobi Corporation, stresses that Mongolia is the world’s second largest producer of cashmere – supplying 41% of global production (in 2014), second only to China.…

A report on crime figures from the UK Office for National Statistics (ONS) has shown that people are now more likely to be a victim of fraud than any other crime, with one-in-10 adults defrauded in the past 12 months. There were almost six million fraud and cybercrimes committed in 2015, with most cases – 2.5 million – related to bank account and credit card fraud, followed by non-investment fraud, such as online shopping scams.…

Banking security chiefs and their opponents in their opponents in the underworld of cybercrime are fighting a “cold war arms race” with no long-term solution in sight, fraud specialist academics have told Fraud Intelligence.

And if anyone should doubt that this threat is not just profound, but global in scope, witness that Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB – Federalnaya Sluzhba Bezopasnosti) announced last month that it had arrested 50 members of a gang believed to have been responsible for a Russian Roubles RUB1.7 billion (USD 26.6 million) bank cyberhack using the Trojan programme ‘Lurk’ to collect customer data.…

South-east Asia is a region that has sharp contrasts in economic development, from between the wealth of Singapore to countries such as Myanmar, where poverty is endemic and consumer markets are relatively undeveloped.

Such contrasts pose challenges for personal care product companies seeking regional strategies to tap the markets of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations’ (ASEAN) 10 countries, whose cosmetics suppliers have to comply with the standards of the ASEAN Cosmetics Directive, which was modelled on European Union legislation.…

Yet the good old British public is defying its political leaders and employers in its tens of millions. Why? There are a number of reasons, some of them more ‘tangible’ than others. I’ll attempt to list the main ones.

IMMIGRATION

The EU is associated in the public mind with immigration because it allows the free movement of labour.…

MYANMAR, the world’s newest democracy, is taking steps to improve its financial reporting. Its reforms are new – as befits a country that saw its first and only stock exchange – the Myanmar Securities Exchange Centre (MSEC) – open on March 25.…