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ASIA REGULATORY ROUND UP – MALAYSIA ISSUES NEW GUIDANCE TO BOOST SUSTAINABLE INVESTMENT
THE SECURITIES Commission Malaysia (SC) has issued Guidelines on Sustainable and Responsible Investment (SRI) Funds to boost the growth of green investments in the country. The advice follows Malaysia issuing in July the world’s first green sukuk (Islamic bond).
The new advice applies to conventional as well as Islamic sustainable finance, including unit trust funds, real estate trust funds, exchange-traded funds, and venture capital and private equity funds.…
INTERNATIONAL TECHNICAL ROUND UP – EU RELEASES TAX EVASION BLACK LIST
*The European Union (EU) Council of Ministers has published a blacklist of jurisdictions it thinks do not cooperate sufficiently with international efforts to reduce tax evasion. They are American Samoa, Bahrain, Barbados, Grenada, Guam, South Korea, Macau, the Marshall Islands, Mongolia, Namibia, Palau, Panama, Saint Lucia, Samoa, Trinidad & Tobago, Tunisia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE).…
CHINA MOVES TO WORLD’S NUMBER POSITION IN PERSONAL CARE PRODUCT SALES
China will boast the world’s number one cosmetics market in 2018 according to global financial services firm Morgan Stanley: it will account for 20% of total sales, compared to 17% for the second-placed USA and 10% for third placed Japan – overtaking America for the first time, it said.…
EU COUNCIL ADOPTS CONTROVERSIAL MONEY LAUNDERING AND TAX FRAUD BLACKLIST
THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) Council of Ministers today (December 5) adopted a money laundering blacklist, bringing widespread criticism because the listing – designed to prevent tax fraud and evasion – only covers countries outside the 28-nation bloc. Despite the European Commission screening 92 jurisdictions worldwide, the final list of non-cooperative jurisdictions in taxation matters only contains 17 jurisdictions: American Samoa, Bahrain, Barbados, Grenada, Guam (another US territory), South Korea, Macau (a China special administrative region), the Marshall Islands, Mongolia, Namibia, Palau, Panama, Saint Lucia, Samoa, Trinidad & Tobago, Tunisia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE).…
THALES BOSS SAYS GLOBAL DRONE RULES COULD BE IN PLACE BY 2019
THE STRATEGY and business development director of global aviation and transport systems giant Thales predicts that a global set of comprehensive rules controlling unmanned aircraft could be in place by 2019. That would be the year of the next triennial assembly of the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO), and allow enough time for expertise to be developed in countries such as the USA, Singapore, Australia, and the UK, that are leading on drone regulation.…
SATELLITE NAVIGATION WILL COMPLEMENT, NOT REPLACE GROUND BASED INFRASTRUCTURE, SAYS SAT NAV BOSS
THE HEAD of groundbreaking satellite navigation company Aireon has told Jane’s Airport Review that his company’s network will not replace ground-based air navigation services, rather compliment them and supply healthy excess capacity that will boost reliability. Don Thoma, president and CEO of Aireon, Virginia, USA-based space-based automatic dependent surveillance broadcast network system operator, said: “It’s going to be all of the above.…
ASEAN UNIVERSITIES SHOULD FOLLOW SINGAPORE EXAMPLE IN EQUIPPING GRADUATES FOR WORK, SAY EXPERTS
INCREASINGLY, the success of universities is being measured by the number of employable graduates they turn out every year – by this metric south east Asian universities are failing. Indeed, when a recent global ranking found that only one university within the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) was within the top-20 higher education institutes worldwide in terms of their graduates securing good jobs, experts have called for reform.…
VIETNAM’S FREE TRADE AGREEMENTS SPUR HEALTHY TEXTILE INDUSTRY
NEW Free Trade Agreements (FTAs) signal a promising outlook for the Vietnamese textile industry with tariff concessions providing the biggest stimulus to figures, according to the country’s trade officials.
Attendees at the 17th Vietnam International Textile & Garment Industry Exhibition, held late last month (November 22-25th) in Ho Chi Minh City, heard the deals will impact significantly on the national textile sector.…
CHALLENGES OUTLINED FOR HR TEAMS TO HELP TACKLE WEAK PENSION SCHEMES ACROSS ASIA
THE HUMAN resources sector has been urged to put pressure on governments and investment fund managers in Asia to strengthen pension provisions as they deal with the consequences of rapidly aging populations.
And HR and economics experts have warned that corporate HR teams have a critical role to play in educating the workforce about the extent, however limited, of their pension provision and working with company bosses to strengthen policies within their organisations to compensate for the lack of robust schemes in existence.…
NEW FIGURES SHOW HK EMPLOYERS HAVE BETTER CHANCE OF RECRUITING STAFF WITH RIGHT SKILLS
EMPLOYERS in Hong Kong should find it easier to recruit staff with the right skills according to the latest labour participation rates for the city, which indicates there is an increasing number of potential workers available to fill posts.
Hong Kong – with a population of seven million and a workforce estimated at just under four million, split almost equally between male and female – has had to face up to a diminishing talent pool in recent years, partly due to emigration and partly due to a fluctuating birth rate.…