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High-profile terrorist attacks on Brussels Airport and Istanbul Atatürk Airport this year cast a long shadow over the 25^th AVSEC World Conference, titled ‘Evolving Risks, Integrated Solutions’. The event, held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, from October 25-27, brought industry leaders together for discussions, workshops and presentations focused on emerging threats; key among these was how to keep landside areas of airports secure.…

With a strong national economy and significant investment in construction and public buildings, the Philippine paint and coatings sector is enjoying a period of robust growth. Official figures for the overall paint market have not been published since 2014 but the leading sectors have continued to flourish.…

The chairman of the Indonesia textile association (API – Asosiasi Pertekstilan Indonesia) has welcomed his government’s initiative to open bonded logistics centres, saying that they will reduce textile manufacturers’ logistics costs by as much as between 25% and 35%.

Indonesian President Joko Widodo inaugurated 11 bonded logistics centres earlier in the year as part of a series of economic reforms designed to boost trade in southeast Asia’s largest economy.…

The Association of South East Asian Nations’ (ASEAN) “large structural differences in the education system” are challenging the 10 country group’s efforts to harmonise skills across the board, an expert from Geneva-based World Economic Forum (WEF) has warned. His comments follow the August launch of an initiative to benchmark tourism industry skills in the 10-member bloc.…

THE ASIA-PACIFIC region has been regarded as the workshop of the world for most of the 21^st century, and this is especially true for the technical textile sector, where output has continued to grow, partly fuelled by growing regional demand.…

Indonesia’s personal care product sector is faring well at first glance, with domestic sales more than doubling in size in value terms over the past five years. Multinational companies see it as a lucrative market, while local firms also seem to hold their own.…

SINGAPORE has signed deals allowing for the automatic exchange of financial account information with two key trade partners – Britain and Australia. The agreements were struck by the Inland Revenue Authority of Singapore (IRAS) with the UK’s Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs (HMRC) and the Australian Taxation Office (ATO).…

There is “irrefutable evidence” the Malaysian Airlines flight MH17 that crashed over war-torn Ukraine on 17 July 2014 was hit by a Russia-made BUK missile from the 9M38 series, the Dutch Public Prosecution Service’s Joint Investigation Team (JIT) told a Wednesday (September 28) press conference for relatives of the 298 victims.…

EUROPEAN Union (EU) customs authorities seized five million more counterfeit products at the bloc’s borders in 2015 than the year before, with China the originating country for 41% of these fakes, the European Commission’s latest annual report on the problem reveals.…

SINGAPORE has signed deals allowing for the automatic exchange of financial account information with two key trade partners – Britain and Australia. The agreements were struck by the Inland Revenue Authority of Singapore (IRAS) with the UK’s Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs (HMRC) and the Australian Taxation Office (ATO).…