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RECENT scandals involving the mis-selling of financial products, the rigging of the LIBOR interest rate for interbank lending, insider fraud, and bribery and corruption throughout and beyond companies’ supply chains are costing organisations dearly both financially, reputationally and legally.

In the US, the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) lies in wait for wrongdoers; in the UK it is the 2010 Bribery Act.…

EVEN if the European Union (EU) has set energy targets for 2020 and the European Commission has proposed new ones for 2030, the investors still lack the confidence that they need to put their money into energy generation projects in Europe.…

Personal care product multinationals have long been known for their eagerness to invest in China, even during the recent global recession. That is why the decision by two renowned PCP companies to retreat from China in the past month is so remarkable.…

CANADIAN aviation technology company PolarSat and Germany’s BAY-SAT have been working together to update Sudan’s air traffic control network using a PolarSat satellite IP communications network.
The companies are currently in Sudan, installing the network in 12 airports, as well as the country’s new central air navigation centre in the capital city of Khartoum.…

TURKEY’S clothing industry is anticipating stronger export growth in 2014, despite growing concerns within the sector about increasing pressure on price from European retailers.

Cem Negrin, president of the Turkish Clothing Manufacturers’ Association (TCMA) said that the Turkish garment industry is aiming for growth of between 9% and 10% in 2014.…

THE FRENCH government has welcomed an agreement between the German Food and Allied Workers Union (NGG) and the employers group ANG to introduce a minimum wage structure for the approximately 80,000 employees of the German meat industry.

French farm minister Stephane le Foll said that following the deal the expected the Germany good industry to return to “more balanced competition with its European partners.”…

Canada’s higher education sector has welcomed a comprehensive strategy released by the Canadian government for recruiting more foreign students into its institutions.

Announcing a new International Education Strategy on Wednesday (Jan 15), the country’s international trade minister Ed Fast accepted that Canada could profit more from the lucrative global international student market.…

THE INSULATION of heated livestock buildings and replacing soya with rapeseed in animal feed are some of the measures livestock farmers can use to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, a European Parliament workshop heard this week (Tuesday) in Brussels.

“About 40% of the total GHG emissions of agriculture in France come from methane from ruminants and their manure,” Dr Sylvain Pellerin, research director at the French National Agriculture Research Centre (INRA) told members of the European Parliament (MEPs).…

THE EUROPEAN Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has provisionally recommended that exposure levels to consumers from the plastic packaging chemical Bisphenol A (BPA) be lowered sharply. This follows a review of more than 450 studies, which identified “likely” damage to consumers’ livers, kidneys and potential harm to mammary glands “linked to exposure to the chemical.”…

BRAZIL’S taxes on imported products, meant to encourage domestic production, has curbed imports of motor vehicles from the European Union (EU) and in some cases even moved research and engineering jobs from Europe to Brazil, an EU official has told wardsauto.com.  …