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MOBILE communication services have become a significant focus for airports worldwide regarding improving passenger experience, especially as the use of interconnected smart devices has boomed. Airports have been building on previous services, such as improving and expanding their wireless internet coverage and working with airlines to allow for flight check-ins via mobile communication devices.…

The Malaysian Accounting Standards Board (MASB) last month issued Exposure Draft 77 Malaysian Private Entities Financial Reporting Standard (MPERS) for comment. The Board proposes that all private entities should have to apply a single financial reporting framework, the MPERS or whatever name the Board may choose, on 1 January 2016.…

THE NEGOTIATIONS for a free trade agreement (FTA) between the European Union (EU) and the United States, which started this month in Washington DC (July 8), could push the world towards a truly global vehicle regulatory system for the first time, according to EU sources close to the negotiations.…

The chairman of the influential steel committee of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation & Development (OECD) has told steel-making countries to ease off subsidising the sector to fight overcapacity.

In a statement released after a two day meeting of the committee in Paris, Risaburo Nezu noted that: “Excess capacity is one of the biggest challenges facing the steel industry today.”…

WHERE European Union (EU) legislation is concerned, it’s been one step forward and one step back for the European oleochemicals sector so far in 2013, though Chantal De Cooman, secretary-general of the European Oleochemicals and Allied Products Group (APAG), was in breezy mood when speaking to Oils & Fats International last month (July).…

The United States will express concerns about foreign government subsidies that fuel excess steelmaking capacity worldwide at Monday and Tuesday’s (July1-2) Organisation for Economic Co-operation & Development’s (OECD) steel committee. The US and other key steel-making countries are scheduled to meet in Paris for two days of talks.…

China in April successfully conducted a maiden test flight of the first aviation biofuel entirely processed on its shores, joining the US, Finland and France as only the fourth country in the world to independently research and develop a bio-jet fuel production technology.…

THE AMERICAN textile and apparel industry is concerned the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) negotiations will not be completed this year as originally expected, Julie Hughes, president of the US Association of Importers of Textiles and Apparel, told just-style.com.

“Most observers from industry are sceptical that the entire agreement can come together in the next six months,” she said.…

EUROPEAN biofuel industry knew it was in for a rough ride when the European Commission announced last October that it would stop subsiding food-based biofuels from 2020 and support the production of secondary biofuels based on waste matter and algae. But maybe it was not prepared for how the European Parliament would try to amend the proposals by introducing regulatory distinctions between types of biofuels that discriminate against biodiesel.…

Drinks packaging design has always been about communicating with consumers – whether it is broadcasting a brand image or delivering information. And with new technologies aiding communication in many ways, interaction is a key theme with international beverage packaging designers today.…