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EU COUNTRIES FAILING TO COMPLY WITH PUBLIC UBO REGISTER RULES
Long after the January 10, 2020, deadline set by the European Union’s (EU) 5th anti-money laundering directive (5AMLD) (1) for member states to establish public ultimate beneficial ownership (UBO) registers, a Transparency International (TI) report (2) has alleged widespread non-compliance.…
CORRUPTION IN ALL EU COUNTRIES, SAYS TRANSPARENCY INTERNATIONAL
Corruption increased in 2020 across the 27 European Union (EU) countries according to 32% of participants in Transparency International’s latest survey of over 40,000 people, the ‘Global Corruption Barometer (GCB) – European Union 2021’ (1). As regards other respondents, 44% saw no change and only 16% a fall, year-on-year.…
FORMER INS CORRESPONDENT PUBLISHES MYANMAR MEMOIR
A FORMER correspondent for International News Services has published a memoir about the four years she lived in Myanmar.
Our Home in Myanmar is written by Australian journalist, Jessica Mudditt, who moved to Yangon with her Bangladeshi husband in 2012 to join The Myanmar Times. She also worked at the country’s state-run newspaper during the historic elections of 2015, and was a consultant for the United Nations and the British Embassy.…
CAMBODIA’S GARMENT INDUSTRY STRUGGLES WITH LOCKDOWNS IN LATEST COVID CRISIS
The Cambodian government eased Covid-19 lockdown restrictions from May 6, but many of the capital Phnom Penh’s garment factories are still dealing with impacts after a third wave of the virus surged through dozens of factories.
The Phnom Penh city municipality on Wednesday (May 5) night reduced the number of areas under strictest ‘red zone’ lockdown measures to a few patches on the map, where factories are unable to open.…
COVID 19 INSPIRES HACKERS TO SWITCH UP THEIR ATTACKS AND VIRUSES
One of the many downsides of the Covid-19 pandemic has been the inspiration for cyber-criminals to develop new ways of attacking computer users at their home, especially when working remotely. European police agency Europol reported in its annual cybercrime report released last October (2020) that business email compromise fraud and phishing had expanded significantly in frequency and variety since Covid-19 took hold last March (2020).…
DAIRY LEADERS EXPRESS SURPRISE AT BETTER-THAN-EXPECTED YEAR
Over the past year, the European Union’s (EU) dairy industry has weathered two storms: the departure of Great Britain from the EU single market and customs union, during the unprecedented lockdown measures adopted to contain Covid-19, all while EU lawmakers haggle over a major shakeup of agricultural regulations.…
MICROFACTORY GROWTH OFFERS MAJOR OPPORTUNITY FOR BOOM IN DIGITAL TEXTILE PRINTING
INTRODUCTION
The textile industry is one of the world’s oldest manufacturing sector, yet it is also one of the most dynamic, constantly reinventing itself. Today, the development of micro-factories might herald root-and-branch change in how the textile and clothing industry operates, a transformation driven by advances in digital textile printing.…
EU TIGHTENS RULES ON LOBBYING TRANSPARENCY – BUT WILL IT REDUCE CORRUPTION?
EUROPEAN Union (EU) institutions have agreed to tighten measures that encourage lobbyists to put their information on a public register before they meet politicians and high-ranking officials. But researchers and campaigners say stronger enforcement and better monitoring are necessary to prevent graft.…
BIOMETRIC TECHNOLOGY INCREASINGLY SOPHISTICATED AS COMPANIES SEEK REAL TIME ID SOLUTIONS
The test remains the same. French tech multinational Thales stressed in a paper that they “allow a person to be identified and authenticated based on recognisable and verifiable data, which are unique and specific…” compared to a person’s biometric template.…
CHINA’S AMOS BETS ON NOVEL SWEETS
Amos Sweets, a veteran global confectionery supplier based in Shenzhen, Guangdong province, aims to be the face of China’s new generation of candy maker through offering novel, nourishing, high quality sweets.
Investors have bought into the idea. In early 2021, the company received an investment of nearly Chinese Yuan Renminbi CNY100 million (USD15.6 million) through a series A funding round.…