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WITH the deadline for the UNESCO Education for All goals now just two years away, a consensus is emerging that post-2015 global efforts to expand education should focus on the tertiary sector. That was the outcome of an Education in the Post-2015 Development Agenda seminar staged on Wednesday (January 5) in Brussels that brought together educational experts and policy makers, hosted by the Norwegian government.…

A FIRST set of technical standards saying how European manufacturers should build technologies that enable vehicles to communicate with each other and with roadside communications infrastructure has been released. The European Committee for Standardization (CEN) and the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) have issued an initial set of standards for cooperative intelligence transport systems (C-ITS) – called Release 1 – following a request from the European Commission in 2009.…

GREATER international and government-industry collaboration is taking the fight to cyber criminals who exploit security weaknesses in IT systems. Just as well: cyber security has rocketed up the league table of chief executive officers’ concerns as lurid examples of cybercrime become almost a weekly media event.…

RECENT scandals involving the mis-selling of financial products, the rigging of the LIBOR interest rate for interbank lending, insider fraud, and bribery and corruption throughout and beyond companies’ supply chains are costing organisations dearly both financially, reputationally and legally.

In the US, the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) lies in wait for wrongdoers; in the UK it is the 2010 Bribery Act.…

EVEN if the European Union (EU) has set energy targets for 2020 and the European Commission has proposed new ones for 2030, the investors still lack the confidence that they need to put their money into energy generation projects in Europe.…

Personal care product multinationals have long been known for their eagerness to invest in China, even during the recent global recession. That is why the decision by two renowned PCP companies to retreat from China in the past month is so remarkable.…

THE BEST packaging always seems to be an integral part of a product – indeed for personal care product consumers, the appearance of a container can be why they make a purchase. So for brands, making packaging decorations and finishing seem to melt into a product can be or critical importance.…

Over recent years, Turkey has become one of the world’s most important emerging markets. Positioned at the crossroads of Europe and Asia, over the past five years Foreign Direct Investment has grown from just over USD1 billion to an annual average of USD13 billion.…

THE THREAT that an ageing population will create ‘silver tsunami’ of patients causing funding pressures for Singapore’s healthcare sector came under the spotlight at an Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA) Singapore Health Conference 2014. Nearly 100 financial and healthcare professionals attended the half-day event on February 18 at the city state’s fabled Raffles Hotel.…

SOURCING in Asia has been a merry-go-round for many buyers in recent years. As the era of low-cost Chinese manufacturing draws more or less to a close, several countries have leveraged their low cost labour to capture a significant volume of the world’s lower end knitwear manufacturing, while others have sought to extend their reach into higher value-added manufacturing by investing in infrastructure and training.…