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GROUP BUYING POSES MARGIN-v-SALES DILEMMA
PURCHASING cosmetics through business-to-consumer (B2C) group-buying websites offering national and local discount deals from third party vendors is catching on in key markets worldwide and positively blossoming in China, but with different nuances according to location. Cosmetics deals are popular on these sites throughout Asia, according to Shanghai, China based Dataotuan.com…
MALAYSIA’S EDUCITY COMPLEX MOVES TOWARDS FULL OPERATIONS THIS AUGUST
The Malaysian government-owned investment company Iskandar Investment Berhad (IIB) is pushing ahead with the development of EduCity, the major new education complex being built in Nusajaya in the state of Johor, in the south of Peninsular Malaysia.
A growing number of international universities are setting up operations at the 600-acre site, which will be part of Iskandar Malaysia, a new planned eco-city and trading zone with districts for tourism, health care and education, designed to help re-generate Johor state.…
NEW COMPANIES BILL MEANS STRICTER REGULATIONS FOR INDIA AUDITORS
INDIA’s auditors have had a difficult time in the court of public opinion since the revelations of the USD1 billion Satyam Computer Services scandal. A new Companies Bill might change that – although it will also inflict some pain on India’s auditors.…
SINGAPORE ACCOUNTANTS LOOK FOR OPPORTUNITY IN ECONOMIC ADVERSITY
THE WEALTHY city state of Singapore seems to have glided through the global financial crisis, but the country only narrowly avoided recession and this slowdown has affected its important accounting sector. GDP growth in Singapore grew in 2012 was projected to be 1.2%, down from 4.9% the previous year.…
MATCH-FIXING PROVOKES CALL FOR MORE FINANCIAL PROFESSIONALS IN SPORT
SPORTS regulators, police and other ‘actors’ in the emerging global scandal over match-fixing and other forms of bribery, fraud and corruption need more dedicated accounting skills in-house to prevent, detect and prosecute offences.
“Sporting institutions are behind the curve and need specialists including people trained in forensic accounting within them,” said Dr Graham Brooks, a leading independent analyst of sports crime, and senior lecturer at the Institute of Criminal Justice Studies (ICJS) at the University of Portsmouth, in southern England.…
US PROPOSES FLEXIBILITY TO TPP TRADE PACT
THE UNITED States government has unveiled details of proposed flexibilities it wants to introduce into the planned Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade agreement which will allow importers to buy scarce clothing, textiles and yarns from outside the bloc.
Speaking at a New York conference yesterday (Wed, Jan 9), Kim Glas, deputy assistant secretary for textiles and apparels of the US Department of Commerce stressed proposals that may appease concerns of US garment and clothing importers concerned about restrictive ‘yarn forward’ rules in the draft TPP.…
ASEAN: VERTICAL INTEGRATION AND STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIP NEED TO GROW
THE CREATION of a harmonised customs system within the 10 countries of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) by 2015 should be better exploited by its regional clothing and textile industry through better vertical integration, a conference was told this week.…
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE TOLD NANOTECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT IS BEING BLUNTED BY HEALTH CONCERNS
BY KEITH NUTHALL AND JOHN PAGNI, IN HELSINKI
THE DEVELOPMENT of nanotechnology, especially in commercial consumer products such as textiles and clothing, is being stunted by continuing concerns over health risks, an international conference has been told.
The International Congress on the Safety of Engineered Nanoparticles and Nanotechnologies (SENN2012), in Helsinki, staged by the Finnish Institute of Occupational Health (FIOH) received a series of papers on the latest research into nano-silver, a key anti-bacterial input of known worth within the textile and clothing sector.…
EU-SINGAPORE FREE TRADE AGREEMENT EXPECTED TO REMOVE SINGAPORE TESTING REQUIREMENTS FOR EU CARS
BY CARMEN PAUN, IN BRUSSELS; AND HEATHER TAN, IN SINGAPORE
THE WEALTHY southeast Asian market of Singapore should welcome imports of European manufactured cars based on European Union (EU) technical and safety standards and approvals under a new trade deal finalised this week.…
JAPAN PUSHES FOR INTERNATIONAL RECOGNITION THAT ITS BEEF IS BSE-FREE
BY JULIAN RYALL, IN TOKYO
THE JAPANESE government is staging a diplomatic campaign aimed at boosting its beef exports worldwide, through securing international recognition for its beef as having "negligible risk" of BSE. It has already filed an application with the Office International des Épizooties (OIE), the world animal health organisation to confirm the safety of Japanese beef when it next general session meets in May.…