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Scotland’s airports are making discreet enquiries as to how their procedures might change in the event of a yes vote in this September’s referendum on independence. Several issues have been raised by airports with air traffic control organisation NATS and the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA), as well as with the European Commission on the potential impact on agreements on flights between the European Union (EU) and the United States.…

The Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region ranks poorly in intellectual property rights protection and enforcement. While some countries, notably in the Gulf, are gradually improving, political and economic uncertainty in the wake of the Arab Spring uprisings is hampering progress in much of the rest of the region.…

Vietnam’s languishing cotton development master plan could be given a new lease of life if a new government bio-safety certificate programme takes off this year as planned, opening the way for farmers to grow genetically-modified (GM) high yield pest resistant cotton.…

NATURAL and ‘halal’ cosmetics are making gradual inroads into the lucrative Gulf markets, which have some of the highest spending per capita on fragrances and cosmetics in the world. A handful of local companies and distributors are springing up to cater to the growing trend for natural or organic cosmetics, while the development of the ‘halal’ sector is actively being pushed by the Dubai government, in the United Arab Emirates (UAE).…

PRODUCERS of anti-ageing and extra moisturising products in the United States are benefitting as the national population ages. “People are living longer…it’s good for business…they are buying products longer in their lives,” said Jeffrey Light, president of Aroma Naturals, California, which in March 2014 launched its ‘Amazing 30’ range of care products for skin types including old age.…

THE FOURTH largest country in the world by population, with an expanding middle class, Indonesia is an attractive base for many of the world’s global paints and coatings companies.

Mr Yoichi Yonehara took over the helm at PT Kansai Prakarsa Coatings two years ago and in that time he has had the opportunity to witness not only a coatings industry in evolution but also a country in a period of great change.…

AS the 2015 deadline for the full integration of the ASEAN economic community (AEC) approaches, it is becoming clear that while trade and standards harmonisation is right on target (and in some sectors well advanced) among member nations, the infinite details of this process for the coatings sector will be a work in process for many years to come.…

What is the value of adopting an integrated financial reporting model and how might Gulf Corporation Council (GCC) companies introduce such a model into their overall strategy in the future?

Such was the topic of a roundtable discussion jointly organised by the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA) and Pearl Initiative, a not-for-profit organisation set up to improve transparency, accountability and business practices in the Gulf.…

Colombia has perhaps the strongest reputation in Latin America for playing host to powerful illicit drug cartels and their related money laundering. As a result, it is perhaps reassuring that over the past three years, the Colombian government, through the country’s Attorney General’s Office, seized between USD1 billion and USD1.2 billion, according Luis Edmundo Suárez, Colombia’s Unidad de Información y Análisis Financiero – financial information and analysis unit (UIAF).…

THE PLANNED trade agreement between the United States (US) and the European Union (EU) could be “smaller” and “more modest” than hoped due to a number of intractable issues – one American lobbyist warned this week. Speaking at an EU-US Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) stakeholder briefing in Brussels, Michael Dolan from the labour union International Brotherhood of Teamsters (IBT) referred to the “enormous gulf” between the EU and US positions.…