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CLIMATE change does not just warm up the planet, it appears to be crating or extreme weather events that can cause major operational and safety problems for airports and air traffic controllers, who need to be prepared for such events with good practice and technology.…

VIRTUAL reality (VR) systems are increasingly available and useful for the civil aviation sector – with their training benefits a key focus of an International Air Transport Association (IATA) conference. Its first ever Aviation Virtual & Augmented Reality Summit (AVARS), in Geneva, June 5 and 6, (2018), showed how shocking viewers through VR can really make a difference – the death of a virtual passenger underlined the importance of such tech in safety training.…

The European Union’s anti-fraud office OLAF recommended the recovery of over EUR3 billion to the EU budget in 2017, up from EUR631 millon in 2016, according to the agency’s latest annual report. OLAF said that this “exceptionally high figure” stems from major undervaluation fraud “where fraudsters profited from declaring falsely low values for goods at import in the European Union,” among the 197 cases concluded by OLAF last year. …

Japan’s halal wagyu industry is poised for rapid growth thanks to demand from an increasing number of Muslim tourists and the opening of new export markets.

Relaxed visa requirements, a growing middle class with a large disposable income and the expansion of low-cost carriers has yielded a boom in visitors from Moslem south-east Asian citizens, from countries such as Indonesia, Malaysia and Brunei.…

A series of money laundering and illicit trade incidents in recent years has brought the art market under the watchful eye of anti-money laundering authorities. Commercial Crime International (CCI) investigates the extent of the problem and the way the sector will be affected by new European anti-money laundering regulations.…

Demand for coatings in the Philippines is being boosted by a mix of factors, leading the Philippine Association of Paint Manufacturers (PAPM) to forecast 8% year-on-year growth in paint and coatings production volumes this year (2018), to 387 million litres.

In terms of sales value, market researcher Frost & Sullivan estimates the Philippines coatings market at more than USD1 billion in 2017, with a projection for USD1.53 billion by 2019..…

As Ireland approaches full employment, (unemployment is currently just 6.3%), companies facing higher labour costs and competition for staff are improving their workplace environment to become more attractive as employers. They also hope that a new generation of high-spec office spaces – some being unveiled by accounting firms – will boost productivity.…

THE SINGAPORE government has released an accountancy roadmap, enabling the profession in the city state to grow 5.6% annually to generate Singapore dollars SGD2.03 billion (USD1.48 billion) in nominal value-added income, creating 2,000 new PMET (professionals, managers, executives and technicians) jobs by 2020.…

INDIAN confectionery makers are fearing a slump in sales due to the country’s new ‘traffic light’ food labelling regulation that mandates detailed nutrition information on the front of the pack, along with red dots to denote high sugar, salt or fat content.…

THE LATIN American personal care product market, buffeted in recent years by economic and political instability, looks back on track, with trouble-spots such as Venezuela being very much an exception to overall progress.

Data released by market researcher Euromonitor International has said that the region’s beauty and personal care product sales in 2017 topped USD65 billion in 2017, growing by 42.5% between 2012 and last year.…