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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…
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.…
NEPAL GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS HOPE AML/CFT REFORMS OF PAST DECADE WILL PROMPT POSITIVE APG REPORT IN UPCOMIGN REVIEW
ANTI-money laundering authorities in Nepal hope an upcoming 2020-21 review by the Asia/Pacific Group on Money Laundering (APG) will conclude this Himalayan state is at least largely compliant with all FATF recommendations and special recommendations, although experts admit the review will be tough.…
INNOVATION INVESTMENT IN INDONESIAN VISCOSE STAPLE FIBRE GENERATES INTERNATIONAL QUALITY CERTIFICATION
ASIA Pacific Rayon (APR) has broken ground in the Indonesian viscose manufacturing sector by receiving the internationally recognised STeP sustainable textile and leather production certification from the Switzerland-based standards body OEKO–TEX. APR, a vertically integrated viscose-rayon manufacturer, with a production capacity of 240,000 tonnes-a-year, is hoping to boost sales through the STeP recognition of its modular analysis of chemicals, environmental performance, environmental management, occupational health and safety, social responsibility and quality management.…
NEPAL GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS HOPE AML/CFT REFORMS OF PAST DECADE WILL PROMPT POSITIVE APG REPORT IN UPCOMIGN REVIEW
ANTI-money laundering authorities in Nepal hope an upcoming 2020-21 review by the Asia/Pacific Group on Money Laundering (APG) will conclude this Himalayan state is at least largely compliant with all FATF recommendations and special recommendations, although experts admit the review will be tough.…
COVID-19 AND AIR POLLUTION EXPANDS DEMAND FOR NONWOVEN AIR FILTERS IN INDIA – BUT MANUFACTURING INDUSTRY HAS NOT INVESTED ENOUGH IN CAPACITY TO TAKE ADVANTAGE
India’s nonwoven technical textile industry has been at the centre of two successive public heath emergencies – first ramping up production of air purifier filters to combat dangerous levels of winter air pollution and now increasing the output of materials needed to make face masks to fight the Coronavirus outbreak.…
GLOBAL ENERGY POLICIES TRANSFORM, ADOPTING SUSTAINABLE GOALS AS CLIMATE CHANGE CONCERNS GROW
SLOWLY, but steadily, the world’s energy policies are turning green, towards promoting a sustainable future, targeting an increasingly universal goal of achieving carbon neutrality by 2050. With evidence mounting not only that climate change is accelerating, but potentially wreaking serious damage on the world’s economies and peoples, the Paris Agreement goal of holding the rise in global temperatures to well below 2C trying to limit it to 1.5C is being reflected in the plans of governments, regional and international organisations.…
ECOMMERCE TOBACCO AND VAPE DELIVERIES INCREASE – BUT IS THERE AN ENVIRONMENTAL COST
Ecommerce is becoming an increasingly popular way to order tobacco-related products, especially e-cigarettes and vapes, but are such single-item shipments contributing to more carbon emissions and packaging waste than buying in-store or kiosk? E-commerce accounts for an increasingly large slice of the global retail market, growing 28% in 2017, 22.9% in 2018 and by 20.7% in 2019, to USD3.535 trillion, and forecast to reach USD4.2 trillion in 2020, according to eMarketer’s Global Ecommerce Forecast 2019.…
ETHIOPIA’S TEXTILE AND CLOTHING SECTOR MUST GET SMARTER WITH INVESTMENT TO THRIVE IN THE LONG TERM SAYS INDUSTRY ASSOCIATION
ETHIOPIA’S clothing and textile sector needs to invest in creating a reliable quality domestic supply chain to grow and meet government targets for expanding export sales, a senior official at the Ethiopian Textile and Garment Association (ETGAMA) has told just-style.
Sintayehu Teshome, a textile and garment engineer working for this organisation representing more than 120 medium and large companies said that despite government incentives such as the construction of industrial parks and generous investment lease policies, as well as Ethiopia’s low labour costs, the sector still has many challenges to overcome to fulfill its potential.…
EU MEMBER STATES HAVE FAILED TO COMPLY WITH 5AMLD ON CREATING OPEN UBO REGISTERS
Only five European Union (EU) member states out of the current 27 have fully and properly complied with a requirement to set up public ultimate beneficial ownership (UBO) registers by January 10 (2020) under the fifth anti-money laundering directive (5AMLD), according to research by campaign group Global Witness.…