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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).…
SCOTTISH ISLANDS OFFER UNIQUE ONSHORE RENEWABLE ENERGY SITES
WITH average annual mean wind speeds exceeding 10 metres-per-second (m/s), the islands off Scotland’s north and north-west coast offer a unique opportunity for developers to reap offshore-type wind yields on onshore sites. Combined, Orkney, Shetland and the Outer Hebrides (Western Isles) host nearly a gigawatt of fully consented, but as yet mainly unbuilt, wind farms, to be owned by the local community and generators including SSE and EDF.…
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).…
AIRPORTS SHOULD PLAN CAREFULLY FOR UPCOMING TECHNOLOGICAL OPPORTUNITIES, ICAO CONFERENCE TOLD
MORE airports will be able to welcome the largest civilian airliners from 2020, a senior Boeing manager told an International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) conference this week (Dec 12), as the manufacturer is confident it will roll out large planes with folding wing-tips by that year.…
INTERNATIONAL DEBATES FOCUS ON WHETHER TO CREATE GLOBAL SWIM STANDARD AND GUIDANCE
INTERNATIONAL specialists in exchanging aviation systems data are highlighting for the need for developing a comprehensive global guideline for rolling out SWIM (system wide information management), an international ATC conference has been told. Speaking to this week’s (December 11-15) GANIS (Global Air Navigation Industry Symposium) at the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) headquarters in Montréal, Canada, Alexander Pufahl, ICAO’s information management technical officer, declared: “It has to be a global system.…
CHINA’S GOVERNMENT FLEXES ITS MONEY TO FIGHT MONEY LAUNDERING FINANCE STILL FLOWS OVERSEAS
China appears to be stepping up a gear regarding its fight against money laundering, judging by the propaganda campaign ongoing across the country this winter. Uniformed staff of the Postal Savings Bank of China have, for instance, been out on the streets of the city of Jian in Jiangxi Province, handing out leaflets to pedestrians warning about the dangers of money laundering.…
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.…
MORE SUPPORT NEEDED FOR ADVANCED BIOFUELS, EXPERTS SAY
EUROPEAN Union (EU) ministers finally committed, on December 18, (2017), to a target of reaching at least 27% renewable energy out of overall energy consumption by 2030. While lower than the 45% or 30% demanded by green groups and the European Commission respectively, the biofuels industry has declared that its output should be instrumental in meeting this goal.…
INDONESIA SEEKS GREATER ACCESS TO EU, US FOR ITS TEXTILE PRODUCTS
THE EXECUTIVE secretary of the Indonesian Textile Association (API – Asosiasi Pertekstilan Indonesia) has said that he hopes his government will make progress next year in forging trade deals with the USA and European Union (EU), boosting textile exports to these key markets.…
RUSSIA TO INVEST USD200 MILLION IN ESTABLISHMENT OF RAW MATERIALS’ BASE FOR DOMESTIC TEXTILE INDUSTRY
AS much as USD200 million is to be invested by the Russian government in the local manufacture of raw materials used by the domestic textile industry over the next two years (2018-19).
Funds will be allocated to boost production of cotton, flax and wool in specific areas across the country, thus allowing for the reduction of imports of such products by between 25% and 30% as early as next year, said Russia’s minister of industry and trade, Denis Manturov.…