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CONSTRUCTION has begun on a fast railway linking the planned Beijing Daxing airport to the south of China’s capital city. The 41.36 km line will carry trains at up to 160 km/h and have three stations – the city station, Caoqiao, by the city’s third ring road, will have flight check in facilities.…

THE PACIFIC island state of Tuvalu has become the 192nd member state of the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), with a UN agency note stressing how this archipelago is vulnerable to climate change-prompted sea level rises, which ICAO fights with its CORSIA carbon offset scheme.…

Shinsegae Food, the baking unit of South Korea’s leading retail conglomerate Shinsegae Group, on October 30 in a filing to the KRX Korea Stock Exchange announced that it plans to invest South Korean Won KRW51.9 billion (USD46.6 million) boost its bakery output.…

Africa governments are waking up to the fact that the continent could be a ‘new frontier’ for clothing manufacturing sourcing, export associations and manufacturers at Destination Africa, a trade event in Cairo, Egypt, have told just-style.

They stressed that Africa has significant opportunities to divert manufacturing from Asia due to rising production costs, especially in China, and take advantage of the proximity to European markets.…

African clothing exporting countries are banking on rising costs in China and changing consumption patterns worldwide to attract buyers to the continent to take advantage of lower production costs.

Major hurdles abound, but manufacturers are hopeful that clothing facilities built from scratch that abide by international best practices will help the continent’s apparel sector develop.…

THE EGYPT government and leather industry is planning to boost the country’s leather exports by 80%, to USD1 billion by 2020, through modernising the sector and developing dedicated manufacturing hubs. The Egyptian leather sector took a major hit in terms of lost sales and output during the political and economic instability following the 2011 revolution, and there has been no major investment for the past 15 years to upgrade facilities and improve output.…

A LONG-TERM supplier for global big names such as Lacoste and Hugo Boss, Hong Kong-based shirt manufacturer Esquel is testing a new territory as it broadens its horizons sustainably – e-commerce clients who sell direct to consumers.

Earlier this year, it entered a partnership with NetEase, a major Chinese internet technology company but is also known for its newly established e-commerce business ‘NetEase Selection’ (NS).…

With its history of currency counterfeiting, drug trafficking, proliferation of weapons of mass destruction (WMD) and the laundering of related proceeds and payments, there is surely no state worldwide that has a worse money laundering track record than that of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK, North Korea).…

Money laundering in South Korea (formally the Republic of Korea – RoK) has been associated by law enforcers with domestic criminals, official corruption and ethnic Koreans living abroad – which is not particularly unusual.

But, South Korea has an additional exposure to money laundering – its close and difficult relationship with the world’s most isolated pariah state – North Korea.…

INNOVATIVE schemes are required to beat workplace stress and challenge organisational culture if HR bosses are to prevent Singapore’s productivity levels being damaged by increasingly worrying wellbeing issues, experts have warned.

Singapore-based Centre for Effective Living (CEL), a company promoting the psychological wellness of organisations, said they have seen a 10%-20% rise in the number of clients from the public as well as private sector seeking their help.…