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The Hajj pilgrimage to Mecca is one of the five pillars of Islam, a religious duty every Muslim should perform once in their lifetime. But with 1.7 billion Muslims worldwide and the Hajj only occurring over five days every year, the event is a logistical challenge for the Saudi Arabian government, tour operators, hospitality service providers, retailers and accountants.…

Argentina’s auto industry had expected a near record year in 2018, but unexpected financial problems that have hit the country in the past month could push the economy into recession and dampen local demand for cars. 
These problems are a far cry from the optimism expressed on April 4, when the heads of three carmakers spoke bullishly about production and sales growth at a business conference staged in Buenos Aires by economic consultancy Invecq Consulting. …

WITH textile industry support, the French government is planning to crack down on garment and textile waste – by ensuring that “unsold products are neither thrown away nor destroyed starting from next year,” the French embassy in London has told just-style.…

TECHNIQUES for using forensic linguistics to detect fraud continue to be refined as experts debate the best and most reliable way to use such technology and practices. Indeed, specialists continue to disagree over how forensic linguistics should be used in the anti-fraud arena.…

TECHNICAL textile markets can be driven and shaped by a range of forces – from natural disasters, to technological change, economic developments and political movements. In the case of the USA, at present, the technical textile market and industry is being moved by all these influences at the same time.…

A UK court May 21 dismissed fraud charges against Barclays Bank over a USD3 billion loan to Qatar, in what is a major blow for the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) that launched the case last summer after a five-year investigation.  However, the London Crown Court only threw out the corporate charges, leaving in place the cases that the SFO brought against four individuals at the same time – former CEO John Varley plus senior executives Roger Jenkins, Thomas Kalaris and Richard Boath.…

SURGING rates of cybercrime are driving businesses of all kinds to devote more attention and resources to preventing cyber-attacks, and drilling employees on how to respond to attacks is a key and increasingly important precaution.

According to John Skipper, a UK-based cyber security expert at specialist technology and innovation consultants, PA Consulting,

“Every organisation should be training staff to recognise a potential threat and react correctly.…

When Apple Inc released its iPhone X in November 2017, it took about a week until news broke that Vietnamese security firm Bkav cracked the phone’s revolutionary facial recognition security lock, Face ID, with a composite mask of 3D-printed plastic, silicone, makeup and simple paper cut-outs.…

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.…

NORTH Africa is never an easy market in which to do business, and the Arab Spring and its turbulent aftermath has not helped ease trade, but as the paint industry looks to 2018, there is optimism that profits can be made.…