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Marketers for the planned Saudi Arabia megacity of Neom, a key plank of the kingdom’s Vision 2030 strategy of economic growth and diversity, will highlight it site’s ancient religious heritage and develop adventure tourism to attract five million international tourists-a-year (by 2030).…

The costs of investigating fraud have increased over the past three years, according to 79% of respondents to a global survey, with 26% overall and 49% of companies with a turnover of more than USD15 billion seeing this increase as significant, said risk assessment specialists Kroll.…

With financial fraud booming, the market for forensic accounting – uncovering financial crime through the study of accounting data, bank records and associated company data – is also growing fast.

A report from US and UK-based Market Research Future (MRFR) issued last October (2021) predicted that the global forensic accounting market would be worth annual receipts of USD8.85 billion by 2025, growing at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 8.2%.…

 Chinese consumers are displaying an increasingly keen interest in sustainable fashion, being aware from personal experience that pollution can have a disastrous impact not only on the overall environment but also on their health. A Chinese University of Hong Kong report in 2018, for instance, concluded air pollution caused an average 1.1 million premature deaths in China.…

The Covid-19 pandemic has been a disruptive force across the clothing and textile industry, and it has affected consumer taste as well as shaking up supply chains, notably in home textiles, which are increasingly finished by digital printing.

With changes in demand proving very fluid because of lockdown lives lived at home, and an increase in underlying personal stress, digital printing designs have sought to tap a need for feelings of wellness and calm.…

With moves to sustainability conformity strengthening across the textile industry, rules protecting consumers and finishing workers, as well as the environment, are strengthening, notably to reduce textile dye allergies. Dye producers Colorifix, from Norwich, East Anglia, England, says this has led to “biology replacing chemistry” in dye production, enabling finishers to market products as provide positive health benefits not just preventing allergic reactions.…

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In the competitive and innovative world of smart textile manufacturing and sale, companies strive to maximise functionality and minimise costs. Their ingenuity is the basis of their competitiveness. But as with all industries, some costs are out of their control.…

Digital textile printing will help Malaysia’s textile industry adopt greater automation as it tries to cope with a tight labour supply, the Malaysian Textile Manufacturers Association has said.

Its president Tan Thian Poh said the digital textile print segment will take centerstage, as fabric manufacturers cope with Malaysian government immigration restrictions on foreign workers for all industries.…

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has disrupted energy supplies and raised concerns about the future availability of oil and gas, inflating these commodity prices and hence energy prices, increasing textile and apparel processing costs worldwide. On December 21, as Russia was preparing to send its military into Ukraine-government controlled territory (February 24), Brent crude was selling for USD71.57 a barrel.…

Companies in Japan that export paint and coatings and related chemicals ingredients to Russia and Belarus may face a trade ban if those items have been classed as ‘advanced goods’ under a May 20 amendment to Japan’s Export Trade Control Order.…