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TO listen to opposing sides in a polarised debate, February 14, 2013, could go down in European business history as a St Valentine’s Day Massacre of Europe’s capital markets or as the start of a beautiful love affair with regulation that could help to prevent speculative trading turning boom to bust.…

Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software solutions have become powerful and numerous, allowing apparel companies to manage vast amounts of complex data under one umbrella, from finance, stock and manufacturing processes to distribution. Driven by the need to leverage this information and obtain even greater precision and speed in time to market, in recent years many ERP packages have come to include modules specifically tailored for the clothing industry, either as an add-on package or an integration with a product lifecycle management (PLM) system.…

BRAZIL’S growing economy has given many Brazilian motorists purchasing power they have never had before. This – plus effective social welfare policies and an end to past hyper-inflation – has grown Brazil’s middle class, which is now about 54% of the 196 million population, according to the country’s presidential office for strategic affairs.…

A COMPLEX international supply web supporting an illicit business of tobacco counterfeiters, losing European Union (EU) governments Euro EUR50 million in duties, has been unveiled in a German court. Details were revealed in a case at the Berlin-Moabit criminal court convicting a German-Russian co-national to nine years jail.…

THE PAINT and coatings industry in Taiwan generally has an optimistic outlook, with the industry making the most of its close links to mainland China’s burgeoning manufacturing and domestic markets. It is just as well, given the island’s do-it-yourself (DIY) home painting sector remains weak, with such improvements traditionally a deeply unpopular concept.…

FROM large corporate crime through to healthcare and individual insurance frauds, sentences and headlines convey the impression that the USA is tough on the cheats and crooks.

Crooked financier Allen Stanford is one year into the 110-year prison sentence handed down to him after the Texan was convicted in the USA of a USD7 billion Ponzi scheme and related fraud, one of the largest financial crime cases in US history.…

THE NEW South Korea government of Park Geun-hye, 61, the country’s first woman president, looks unlikely to waver from its predecessor’s staunch support of the ambitious South Korean nuclear energy programme.

Ms Park has not explained in detail how she will run her country’s atomic energy industry.…

THE AMERICAN textile and apparel industry is planning to present a detailed “short supply” list of hard-to-source fibres and fabrics at the next round of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) east Asia-Americas trade agreement discussions, to be held in Lima from May 15-24.…

It is easy to show how vice-chancellors and other senior university officials can lead academic policy and programmes – because that is their job. The role of intellectuals and senior academics without formal power in leadership is harder to define. But some intellectuals are so prominent that they inspire change and development in academia – and such is the case with Professor Dr Mahmood Mamdani, the African historical, political and social commentator.…

IRAN is under sanctions from the United States, the European Union (EU) and the United Nations, and last year the US tightened the screws even more. As President Barack Obama said following his re-election in November, 2012: “We’ve imposed the toughest sanctions in history.”…