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Sustainability improvements in the Asian outsourced clothing and textile sector are far from being the sole preserve of China. In Cambodia, Tonlé, a sustainable garment-making firm based in Phnom Penh, obtains 90% of its fabric from factory cut-out and 10% through sustainable suppliers to make a zero-waste clothing line.…

The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), an increasingly dynamic and affluent 10-member bloc with a population half the size if China’s, plans to achieve a single aviation market (SAM) by the end of 2015 as a part of its broader ambition to launch its ASEAN Economic Community (AEC).…

In the past decade, Thailand has undergone a serious of political upheavals, coups and reversals of power that have left deep divisions within the country. But while opposing factions are still arguing about the future direction of the country, there is one point on which almost every side in Thailand can agree: the Thai tax system is sorely in need of an overhaul.…

AN AGREEMENT on streamlining reviews in Malaysia, Singapore and Thailand of offers or listings of equity or plain debt securities has been secured. It has been written into a memorandum of understanding designed to promote common prospectuses in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN).…

THE MONETARY Authority of Singapore (MAS) has published a system for identifying and supervising domestic systemically important banks (D-SIBs) in Singapore. The authority has also released an inaugural list, including the DBS Bank; the Oversea-Chinese Banking Corporation; the United Overseas Bank; Citibank; the Malayan Banking Berhad; the Standard Chartered Bank; and the HSBC.…

China’s new found taste for olive oil is growing, opening up new sales channels for olive oil producing countries and Morocco is one potential beneficiary. Morocco is the fourth largest exporter of olive oil and olives after the European Union (EU), Turkey and Tunisia, currently producing between 100,000 and 120,000 tonnes per year of which 25,000 tonnes are exported.”…

TO discover the best intelligence on money laundering, sometimes it is best just to ask the money launderers. Take China. There are numerous ways of getting dirty money out of China. The most common include smuggling a satchel of banknotes to Hong Kong (where Chinese Yuan Renminbi (CNY) is convertible), where it is washed through an over-priced (for quick transaction) purchase of real estate in the city, several Hong Kong real estate agents told the Money Laundering Bulletin.…

A GREY market trade in bovine meat products between India and China is flourishing, globalmeatnews.com can reveal. Meanwhile, the Indian government is pressing China to allow official access for Indian beef, pork, goat and lamb exports, which it claims have been blocked on alleged health grounds.…

AUSTRALIA’s push to re-define its agricultural produce under a unified name -‘True Aussie’ that signifies products are clean, green and safe – is helping the countries meat exporters, claim industry leaders.
In Japan alone 50% of Australian beef packs sold at retail now carry this logo, Meat and Livestock Australia International Business Manager in Japan, Andrew Cox told GlobalMeatNews.…

The Philippines government’s department of labour and employment (DOLE) on April 24 signed an agreement with the Foreign Buyers Association of the Philippines (FOBAP) that aims to ready the country’s exporters for a projected influx of foreign buyers by bringing them helping them meet major importing countries’ standards on social protection for workers.…