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EUROPEAN Union (EU) lawmakers are calling for a seismic shift towards low carbon mobility in the auto sector, including requiring manufacturers to meet a 25% minimum fleet quota for electric vehicles by 2025 and a sales ban on cars emitting carbon dioxide (CO2) by 2035. …

HONG Kong–based companies need try and stand out from its local counterparts in terms of what they offer to employees – going beyond just the salaries paid. Indeed, a greater focus is needed to develop a loyal breed of workers if HK companies are keen to rein in the special administration region’s worrying labour turnover, an expert argued. …

Donald Trump’s decision to pull the USA out of the Paris Climate Treaty has been universally viewed as a setback for moves to decarbonise the world electricity sector. Trump called for a new “fair” deal that would not disadvantage US businesses and workers and claimed that China and India had “no meaningful obligations” placed on them by the deal.…

A PROPOSAL to cut funding for the Fogarty International Center from the upcoming USA federal government budget by President Donald Trump’s administration has prompted an outcry from academics and educators across Africa.

For decades Fogarty, part of the USA National Institutes of Health (NIH), has been instrumental in developing medical teaching and research capacity on the continent.…

A COACHING conference in China has been told that traditional companies in Asia can do better in communicating with millennial staff members, but managers need to learn how to adapt.

The good practice was outlined by Xie Jian, executive president of China’s top furniture retail chain Red Star Macalline Group (RSM) at a conference held in Shanghai on June 22 by the coaching service provider MindSpan.…

It is rare when the non-wovens sector can identify a government policy that has a real and direct major impact on its sales – but such is certainly the case with China’s new two-child policy – expected to create a major boost in Chinese sales of wipes and disposable nappies. …

IN HONG KONG, the average expatriate pay package for a middle manager has hit a five-year low – having fallen to USD 265,487 in 2016, from USD 270,618 in 2012. And this follows a dramatic increase in the number of workers (including expats) seeking to change jobs this year blaming low pay, industry experts warned quoting two separate surveys.…

It is rare when the non-wovens sector can identify a government policy that has a real and direct major impact on its sales – but such is certainly the case with China’s new two-child policy – expected to create a major boost in Chinese sales of wipes and disposable nappies. …

THE INDIAN knitwear industry will have to pay a wide range of rates for the incoming Goods and Services Tax (GST) rates when the new tax is introduced from July 1 (2017).

This tax is supposed to simplify how businesses pay sales taxes in India, replacing a series of national, state and local charges, but a national GST Council has set a wide range of rates for knitwear products and inputs.…

Donald Trump’s decision to pull the United States out of the 2015 Paris Climate Treaty will not halt moves to cut fossil fuels or reduce decarbonisation requirements on the non-energy minerals sector and other industries, say experts.

Trump called for a new “fair” deal that would not disadvantage US businesses and workers and claimed that China and India had “no meaningful obligations” placed on them by the agreement.…