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FIVE years after the Rana Plaza disaster, Bangladesh’s apparel industry has undergone expensive structural transformation, but a fair price for garment producers remains elusive, industry-insiders and trade unionists say.
The Dhaka-based Envoy Group, which spent between USD2 million and USD2.5 million on a health and safety makeover following the tragedy accepts it was “a turning point in taking the industry to the next level”, said Abdus Salam Murshedy, Envoy’s managing director.…

RUSSIAN airports are intensifying preparations for a flood of passengers in the run up to the 2018 FIFA World Cup from June 14 to July 15, having expanded their carrying capacities and modernised operations, according to Russian transport ministry officials and airport bosses.…

RUSSIAN airports are intensifying preparations for a flood of passengers in the run up to the 2018 FIFA World Cup from June 14 to July 15, having expanded their carrying capacities and modernised operations, according to Russian transport ministry officials and airport bosses.…

ICELAND airport operator Isavia has borrowed Icelandic Krona ISK12.5 billion (EUR100 million) from the European Investment Bank (EIB) to help finance renovations and capacity improvements at the country’s Keflavik International Airport. With the country experiencing a tourism boom, the airport processed 8.7 million passengers in 2017, up 28.3% on 2016, and is projected to receive nearly 10.5 million travellers in 2018.…

THE KUWAIT Directorate General for Civil Aviation (DGCA) has chosen South Korea’s Incheon International Airport Corporation (IIAC) to operate, manage, maintain and develop the new terminal four (T4) at Kuwait International Airport. IIAC won a tender, which – said the DGCA – means the IIAC would start operations within 90 days of signing the contract.…

TOBACCO farming in Kenya is facing challenging times, with Tobacco Journal International being warned by farmers, government officials and market researchers that large-scale cultivation of the crop has been declining for five years in its traditional western region heartland.

Experts say output decline has been noted in the administrative areas that have dominated Kenyan tobacco leaf production.…

GERMANY’S federal finance ministry has said it will lend EUR1.2 billion to a key Azerbaijan company involved in developing Caspian Sea natural gas, exporting it via a burgeoning pipeline network to central and western Europe. Azerbaijan’s ‘Closed Joint Stock Company Southern Gas Corridor’ (SJCC), formed in 2014 by presidential decree, will borrow the funds to help develop the Shah Deniz offshore gas field in the Caspian.…

International activity to understand and potentially extract natural gas from methane hydrates has intensified since 2010 with the continuation and launch of new research and development (R&D) projects and field production tests offshore and onshore, as shown in a new overview by Carolyn D Ruppel, chief of the gas hydrates project at the United States Geological Survey (USGS).(1)…

ARTIFICIAL intelligence (AI)-led candidate screening or simply put, automated recruitment is ready to take off in east and south-east Asia. However, a key challenge in the process is making automated interactions valuable and engaging enough for candidates – so that “they don’t feel like they are talking to a dumb machine,” an industry expert said.…

Asian companies are more likely to lose senior management staff after mergers and acquisitions (M&A) than their western counterparts, a study has found. This, say HR experts in Singapore and Hong Kong, emphasises the need for more sophisticated talent retention strategies in the region.…