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MARITIME CYBER ATTACKS POSE MAJOR RISKS



THE MARITIME industry has been slow to acknowledge the threat posed to it by cyber attacks but the increasing connectivity of technologies across all layers of the supply chain create a tempting target for hackers. Sarah Gibbons reports. 

 

WITH increasing levels of connectivity across global supply chains, the maritime industry faces a significant risk of cyber-attacks.…

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SOUTH KOREA’S COSMETICS WEATHERING POLITICAL HEADWINDS WITH MORE PERSONALISATION AND MULTI-STEP ROUTINES



THE SOUTH Korean cosmetics market, currently evaluated by Frost & Sullivan at USD12.4 billion and growing at 7% year-on-year, is leaving behind the negative effects of a de facto boycott by Chinese tourists. The travel freeze, sparked by Seoul’s decision to install a US-made anti-missile system to protect itself from North Korea, has been in place since early 2017.…

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SUSTAINABILITY IN INDONESIAN TEXTILE INDUSTRY REMAINS ON THE BACK BURNER



INDONESIAN textile and garment manufacturers continue to flout environmental laws and dump hazardous waste into rivers despite pressure for the industry to be more environmentally friendly, activists and industry leaders warned.
“Medium and small sized companies, particularly those that serve the domestic market, have no incentives to be environmentally-friendly because their margins are small,” said Redma Gita Wirawasta, secretary general of the  the Indonesian Synthetic Fibre Manufacturers
Association (Apsyfi, Asosiasi Produsen Serat dan Benang Filament Indonesia).“So…

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BRAZIL SENATE MULLS LIFTING AMAZON BIOFUEL BAN



BRAZIL’S senate is debating a bill 626/2011 that could lift an existing ban on harvesting sugarcane in the country’s Amazon region to make ethanol fuel. The proposal has been supported by Brazil’s centrist President Michel Temer but opposed by environmental groups and the Brazilian Sugarcane Industry Association (UNICA – União da Indústria de Cana-de-Açúcar).…

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SOMALI NATIONAL UNIVERSITY BUILD FIRST REGIONAL CAMPUS OUTSIDE THE CAPITAL MOGADISHU



The Somali National University (SNU) is setting up its first new campus outside the capital Mogadishu, and – moreover – in a semi-autonomous region of a country which is steadily moving towards stable federalism.

Construction is now under way in Abudwaq town, in Galmudug region, central Somalia, following Somalia President Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed Farmaajo’s laying of a ground breaking stone on January 21 (2018) alongside Galmudug president Ahmed Dualle Gelle Haaf.…

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INDIA PETROCHEMICALS SET TO ADVANCE – BOOSTING COUNTRY’S ROLE AS O&G IMPORTER



India’s petrochemicals industry is preparing to exploit its growth potential and can benefit from lessons learned in Europe. Indeed, India’s intertwined petrochemicals and refining sectors received a significant endorsement of their future potential in April 2018 in the shape of major foreign investment in what will be one of the world’s biggest integrated sites for these twin purposes.…

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WILL BREXIT LOOSEN UK AML CONTROLS? EXPERTS ARE DIVIDED



WILL Brexit increase money laundering through the UK, or will the British government’s October 2017 Sanctions and Anti-Money Laundering Bill (SAMLB) and the UK money laundering regulations 2017 adequately replace the European Union’s (EU) anti-money laundering directives (AMLD)?

British Labour member of the European Parliament (MEP) Claude Moraes has his doubts.…

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METHANE HYDRATES STORE VAST AMOUNTS OF NATURAL GAS – BUT THEIR EXPLOITATION REMANS UNECONOMIC FOR NOW



 

International activity to understand and potentially extract natural gas from methane hydrates has intensified since 2010 with the continuation and launch of new research and development (R&D) projects and field production tests offshore and onshore, as shown in a new overview by Carolyn D Ruppel, chief of the gas hydrates project at the United States Geological Survey (USGS).(1)…

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AI SYSTEMS OFFER ASIAN RECRUITERS AN EDGE OVER MANUEL SCREENING OF APPLICATIONS



ARTIFICIAL intelligence (AI)-led candidate screening or simply put, automated recruitment is ready to take off in east and south-east Asia. However, a key challenge in the process is making automated interactions valuable and engaging enough for candidates – so that “they don’t feel like they are talking to a dumb machine,” an industry expert said.…

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YEAR OF SCANDALS MIGHT LEAD TO MORE STRINGENT LAW ENFORCEMENT



AUSTRALIA may have been strengthening its anti-money laundering (AML) systems, but an admission last year (2017) by the country’s biggest bank, the Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA), about AML failures was a clear reminder that reforms are still needed. The Commonwealth Bank admitted that it had breached Australian AML laws 53,700 times.…

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