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The is optimism within the Irish dairy industry that the acute trading challenges caused by Brexit may have abated thanks to the Windsor Framework deal between the European Union (EU) and the UK that amended the Northern Ireland Protocol. Producers and traders hope that the changes will give some certainty to an Irish dairy processing industry that relies on seamless transit across the Northern Ireland-Republic of Ireland border and onto Great Britain.…

Experts at the recent global Association of Certified Fraud Examiners (ACFE) conference in Seattle have been stressing the potential that crypto blockchains offer in tracking commercial crime – but more comprehensive regulation would aid probes. Keith Nuthall and Andreia Nogueira report.…

The world’s 600 largest companies are failing to provide full disclosure of anti-bribery and corruption information within their sustainability reporting, according to a joint report (1) backed by the International Federation of Accountants (IFAC). Working with from Transparency International UK and the World Economic Forum’s Partnering against Corruption Initiative.…

The China-Central Asian Summit that took place in China’s Xi’an in May could help cement links between China’s major garment and textile industry and central Asian textile suppliers, forging backward linkages and new markets, a manufacturer and two industry observers have told Just Style.…

Law professors, human rights lawyers and civil society groups have published a petition demanding the release of political prisoners in Tunisia, warning that such democratic regressions harm both the practice and teaching of law to the new generation of students.…

The use of money mules moving dirty money worldwide continues to grow, with law enforcement, financial institutions and researchers continuing to highlight the problem. In the UK, 31,979 money mule cases were recorded in 2017; rising to 40,129 in 2018; 42,900 in 2019; and 40,353 in 2020; according to 2022 research published in the International Journal of Business and Economy (1).…

The signing of the Australia-United Kingdom Free Trade Agreement (A-UKFTA) may have created one new trade deal, but it is regarded in contrasting lights by the two countries’ respective dairy industries.

On the UK-side, industry association Dairy UK regards this as an unequal deal, giving British exporters little to leverage.…

Higher education institutions harmed by a five-years-old Islamist insurgency in Mozambique’s northern Muslim-majority province Cabo Delgado province, are reluctant to restart operations, despite security guarantees from the Mozambican military, and their allied forces from Rwanda and the Southern African Development Community (SADC).…

Taiwan, being the world’s second largest fastener exporter by value after China is positioning itself to be a main supplier of fasteners for the US’s electric vehicle (EV) sector, said participants at Fastener Taiwan 2023 (Taiwan International Fastener Show), a B2B trade show, taking place in the southern Taiwanese city of Kaohsiung in early May. …

THE COVID-19 pandemic brought many changes to the world, and changes in fashion that incorporated a desire to enjoy a healthy lifestyle was one. With many consumers spending more time at home, including during working hours, demand for comfortable clothes with functionality to aid indoor and outdoor exercise has boomed.…