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BY CONNLA STOKES, IN HO CHI MINH CITY

As one of the world’s fastest-growing accountancy bodies, ACCA is attracting more finance and management professionals in Asia eager to get to the top. This is certainly the case for Shanghai, China-born Katherine Wu.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) Council of Ministers has streamlined the EU’s special low duty system for poor exporting countries, which will increase tariffs for some EU textile finishing chemical imports. Ministers backed a new generalised tariff preferences (GSP) system, with special low duties henceforth "concentrated on least developed, low income and lower middle-income countries…"

This means richer emerging market paint exporting countries such as Russia, Malaysia and Brazil will attract higher EU tariffs for their exports from January 2014, with India and China likely to follow suit soon.…

BY LEE ADENDORFF, IN BOLOGNA

MORE than 110 academics and university administrators met in Bologna, Italy on September 21 for the twenty-fourth anniversary conference of the Magna Charta Universitatum – a declaration on fundamental university principles that has now been signed by over 750 universities worldwide.…

BY POORNA RODRIGO

THE LEADERS of a project to set up a women’s university in Malaysia say that they have cleared land purchase problems that had been holding up construction. Representatives of the Asian Women’s Leadership University (AWLU) Project in Malaysia now say they are on a solid path to the institution opening in 2015.…

BY ROB GILHOOLY, IN TOKYO

When New Kansai International Airport Co. took over the operation of Japan’s partly state-run Kansai International Airport facility this April through a plan by the government to jump-start Japan’s air travel market, it also took on an estimated Japanese Yen JPY1.3 trillion (USD16.5 billion) in interest-bearing debt.…

BY POORNA RODRIGO

Niyaz Ibrahim

* May 2011 to present – Auditor General of the Maldives

*May 2010 to present – member of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA)

*August 2010 to present – Lecturer Villa College, the Maldives

*March 2010 to May 2011 – Chief Internal Auditor – Maldives Ports Limited

*November 2008 to January 2009 and June 2009 to February 2010 – Deputy Director General of Audit – Maldives Auditor General’s Office (AGO)

*September 2008 to Nov 2008 – Assistant Director General of Audit – AGO

*July 2004 to Sept 2007 – Assistant Auditor – Audit Office

*October 2000 to Sept 2002 – Accounts Officer Trainee – Audit Office

*July 2004 to Sep 2007 – Manager – Gothic Construction Private Limited

*July 2004 to present – Private practising (Auditing, accountancy, financial and management services)

*January 2009 to June 2009 – ACCA Professional Examinations: (FTC Kaplan, Singapore)

*September 2007 to September 2008 – MSc.…

BY POORNA RODRIGO

A WAVE of high profile corruption cases and a growing range of commercial crimes have swept the South Asian archipelago of Maldives. Some cases have prompted Interpol red notices while others have run into long-drawn court battles, hurting investor confidence.…

BY ROBERT STOKES IN MÁLAGA

THIS year I have abandoned my premium brand sun screen in favour of a Deliplus private label product sold by the Spanish supermarket group Mercadona for around EUR 5.00, saving around EUR 12.00 into the bargain.…

BY DAVID HAYHURST, IN PARIS

CHANTAL Ronceray is targeting fast growth in turnover at Jamal Paris, a small but ambitious halal cosmetics products company she co-founded in 2007. It is an act of faith in the long-term potential for sales among France’s 4.7 million Muslims, Europe’s largest such population.…

BY MARK ROWE

FOR products that are marketed for their ability to sooth and generate the feel-good factor, the sustainable sourcing of cosmetics ingredients causes plenty of headaches for manufacturers and suppliers. The industry is in a period of transition, in which several of the world’s multinationals are engaging in a step change in how they go about sourcing the oils they need, and the public wants.…