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EXECUTIVES within Sri Lanka’s apparel sector predict its exporters can generate an additional USD400 to USD500 million in annual sales because of the country regaining the Generalised Scheme of Preferences Plus (GSP+) trade concession with the European Union (EU).

This happened on May 19, (2017), almost seven years since Sri Lanka lost this trade access status (in August 2010) because of human rights violations during the previous government of ex-President Mahinda Rajapaksa.…

PUBLIC authorities in the south Asian island nation of Maldives are themselves developing the country’s main Ibrahim Nasir International Airport, after a dispute with India’s GMR Group ended in a costly arbitration ruling.

This dated back to 2010 when GMR Male International Airport Ltd (GMIAL), a subsidiary of India’s GMR Infrastructure Ltd, signed a concession agreement with the Maldives government and the Maldives Airport Company Ltd (MACL) to modernise and operate the airport.…

For the past year, passengers flying out of Hong Kong International Airport (HKIA) have had to cough up a Hong Kong dollars HKD70-180 (USD9-23) Airport Construction Fee for the privilege. Should they want to see where their money is going, they need only look northwards from the glass-sided terminal to observe the construction of the hub’s third runway, which is due to be completed in 2024.…

Beijing’s new international airport, tentatively named Beijing Daxing International Airport, saw the steel structure of its terminal buildings completed on June 30, suggesting that its operations will begin in 2019 as planned.

Located 46 km south of the Chinese capital’s city centre, the airport is meant to take pressure of the Beijing Capital International Airport (BCIA), which is reaching its capacity limits, and the project draws much additional rationale from the Chinese central government’s ambitious decision to build a new megacity at Xiongan in northern China, as announced in April.…

WORK is advancing on a major expansion of Santiago’s Pudahuel International Airport to cope with Chile’s rapidly-growing aviation market. But airlines feel they are bearing more than their share of the USD1 billion construction cost.

Officially known as Arturo Merino Benítez International Airport, the facility has been Chile’s gateway to the world since it opened 50 years ago.…

Kenya is likely to become the second country in east Africa after Rwanda to use unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), popularly known as drones, for commercial purposes, according to Capt. Gilbert Kibe, director general of the Kenya Civil Aviation Authority (KCAA).

Speaking during a ‘Drones East Africa Conference’ held in Nairobi on June 20-21, Kibe briefed delegates on draft regulations that will open Kenya skies to UAVs: “The policy procedures and regulations for remotely piloted aircraft systems…have been approved and will provide a roadmap to the industry,” Kibe told delegates at the event, organised by the International Quality and Productivity Centre (IQPC).…

Japan’s top cattle and meat producers are gearing up to compete in the country’s next ‘Wagyu Olympics’, the country’s premier beef cattle show, to be held in Sendai, Miyagi prefecture, on September 7–11. Delegations of wagyu experts, industry insiders and farmers from each prefecture as well as overseas groups are expected to attend for competitions as well as wagyu taste challenges and opportunities to exchange information and good practice.…

THE MALAYSIAN government is pushing students to follow a new vocational higher education track in its national tertiary education system, reflecting concern that traditional courses such as humanities and social science are still more popular.

The call came from Malaysia’s human resources minister Datuk Seri Richard Riot who told students at a recent job fair in Sarawak to make the best use of entrepreneurship-focused syllabus in universities – which his government has been promoting.…

WITH the Asia-Pacific continuing to be the hub of global industrial growth and also a nexus of technological innovation, the region’s non-wovens sector has been making the most of these benefits, increasing both output and quality.

The Chinese nonwoven fabric sector, for instance, has been growing steadily, with 8-10% year-on-year growth in recent years, surpassing the average growth rate of the country’s entire textile industry.…

MONGOLIA remains one of the world’s key global production centres for cashmere, and its importance seems to be growing, with its cashmere garment exports increasing – total 2016 overseas receipts were USD9.6 million, up 196% since 2009.

Demand is driven by Mongolian goat fibres’ unique characteristics, most importantly of which its length of 38-45cm and thin microns facilitating the manufacturing of garments with higher quality than those made from Chinese and Afghan goat fibres. …