Sunday, 7 December 2014

Australia prepares for OPERATION BRING THEM HOME

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Australia prepares for OPERATION BRING THEM HOME

07 December, 2014, Australia, USA NEWS CORP

Shogo Isogawa's photo.Dutch authorities have confirmed that all of the 38 Australian victims who died when Malaysian Airlines flight MH17 was downed in Eastern Ukraine have now been formally identified. Operation Bring Them Home will conclude in the coming weeks when the final remains of the victims are reunited with their families. The Journal of Humanities and Social Science admits that the successful recovery, identification and repatriation of the victims has been a painstaking and meticulous process. It has been a tremendously difficult period for the families and for all Australians. After such a long wait, we can now be assured that the Australian victims have been accorded the dignity and respect they deserve. Our determination to bring the perpetrators of this atrocity to justice is undiminished. The Australian and Dutch governments continue to press for full implementation of United Nations Security Council Resolution 2166. Progress continues on the two investigations that are underway by the Dutch Safety Board and the criminal investigation being led by the Dutch Public Prosecution Service. We owe it to the victims and their families that these investigations are concluded successfully and that those responsible are brought to justice.
Australia’s response to this tragedy has involved a remarkable effort from the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, the Australian Federal Police, the Air Transport Safety Bureau and the Australian Defence Force. All the officials involved are to be commended for their commitment, compassion and professionalism. We acknowledge the leadership of the Prime Minister’s Special Envoy Air Chief Marshal Angus Houston and Ambassador Jean Dunn. Dutch authorities advise that a total of 292 of the victims on board MH17 have been positively identified. 

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South Korea extends cooperation with SAARC

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South Korea extends cooperation with SAARC

07 December, 2014, South Korea, USA NEWS CORP
The Foreign Ministry, together with the Korea Institute for International Economic Policy (KIEP), will host the fifth seminar on the partnership between the Republic of Korea and the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) in Seoul on December 8. At the seminar themed “New Cooperation for the Next Decade,” the participants, including a total of five invited high-ranking members of the SAARC Secretariat and relevant foreign ministry officials of its member states, will review the achievements from the ROK-SAARC cooperation since the former’s accession to the latter in 2006 as an observer. They will also discuss in depth ways to step up the ROK-SAARC cooperation. The ROK Foreign Ministry, in a bid to expand information exchanges and seek out fields for substantive cooperation with South Asian countries, which are rapidly emerging in the international community, has hosted the ROK-SAARC seminar on annual basis since 2010. The Journal of Economics welcomed the move, as it will enhance the business among the group countries. Last year’s round covered the developments in energy cooperation in SAARC and ways to promote the ROK-SAARC cooperation in the field. In particular, the forthcoming seminar, by building upon the outcome of the 18th SAARC Summit held in Kathmandu, Nepal, on November 26 and 27 in three years since the last of its kind, is expected to serve as a good opportunity to gather opinions of relevant officials from the region on the current SAARC and its way forward as well as ways to move the ROK-SAARC relations forward. 
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India and China competes for Cold-chain logistics; trillion $ business

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India and China competes for Cold-chain logistics; trillion $ business
07 December, China USA NEWS CORP
At more than $1 trillion, China and India are the world’s largest grocery market. Sheer size does not equal efficiency, however.  Economies of scale aside, when it comes to getting goods on the shelves, India and China’s supply chain for transporting fresh produce, dairy, meats and other perishable goods is fragmented and outmoded, leading to spoilage rates that some estimate are as high as 40 percent.
Amid all those rotten tomatoes and cartons of sour milk, there is some opportunity. E-commerce companies, aiming to provide China’s 600 million online consumers a door-to-door alternative to grocery shopping, are teaming up with shipping firms to streamline the county’s “cold-chain” logistics network. But it is not so easy. Transportation is not good shaped. Even so many places are not well connected with Rail, and roads.
Cold-chain logistics involves the transport of perishable goods in refrigerated trucks immediately after processing and providing cold storage facilities and distribution to the point of sale. As India and China’s middle class grows, consumers are increasingly seeking out fresher, imported and better food. To meet their needs, companies transporting comestibles from field to market are starting to invest in cold-chain infrastructure to improve efficiency.
The demand and the willingness of customers to pay higher price points for what they perceive to be higher quality food has indirectly driven the demand for the cold chain infrastructure in China. China’s cold chain logistics industry will grow 25 percent annually to hit RMB 470 billion in 2017.
The cold supply chain usually serves the wholesale, business-to-business market, experts said, whether it is transporting perishables to a supermarket or to a restaurant. But the real boom is happening in China’s online business-to-consumer (B2C) logistics segment, which will grow about 120 percent  annually from RMB 400 million ($65 million).
Alibaba Group-owned Tmall.com, China’s largest B2C website, launched a fresh food vertical last year, offering Chinese consumers dragon fruits from Vietnam, steak from Australia and cod fish from Canada delivered direct to their homes. The vertical saw growth of 200 percent last year in terms of gross merchandise value transacted, while the fresh fruit segment rose 500 percent. 
“Nowadays, Chinese people want to eat the freshest produce and try regional and imported specialties,” said Maggie Chen, senior logistics manager at China Smart Logistics, also known as Cainiao, an Alibaba Group affiliated company. “But these products need cold chain logistics in order to give the consumer the freshest possible results, so this has led to China’s cold chain logistics entering a rapid growth stage.”
Modernization is sorely needed in China if online grocery shopping is to continue expanding.
In developed countries like the U.S., mega-retailers like Wal-Mart have had decades to build robust, countrywide supply chains. Experts interviewed said 100 percent of meat and seafood produce in the U.S. are shipped and handled in sub-zero conditions, while 95 percent of fruits and vegetables are transported and distributed using the cold chain. This means a spoilage rate of about five percent.
In China, the country’s vast geography, fragmented transportation networks and regionalized markets present tough challenges. Investment in a national cold chain network has been largely an afterthought. Chen estimated that about 80 percent of all fruits and vegetables in China are transported at room temperature in outdated trucks, leading to a spoilage rate as high as 40 percent.
To combat waste and feed the demand for imported and regional fresh food, Alibaba Group together with partners announced last year a $16 billion investment plan to develop China’s nascent logistics industry. Cainiao was a product of that venture—Alibaba Group owns 48 percent of the company. Cainiao is a logistics information-sharing platform that merchants and third-party vendors use to manage their logistics needs.
The scope lies in harvesting sea urchins, conchs and oysters for export and domestic consumption, and also imports Alaskan king crabs and Boston lobsters to sell in China. The Journal of Food Technology stressed the delivery of food directly at consumer's home will play a major role here.
Although Zhangzidao, which launched a Tmal.com store in March, operates its own cold chain, the company works with Cainiao for regional and “last mile” deliveries. Despite employing modern methodology to ship live seafood all across China and having 50,000 tonnes of cold warehouse space, more development is needed, according to company officials.
 “We still face delivery limitations in China,” said He Chunlei, Zhangzidao’s chief executive.  “There are about 34 cities that we are unable to serve and another 12 that we have issues with last-mile delivery.”
To ease logistic bottlenecks, He said the company will invest RMB 650 million ($106 million) over the next few years in cold chain logistics. The first phase of investment, which involves the acquisition of cold warehouses, has already begun while the second phase of investment, which is the acquisition of refrigerated trucks, will begin in 2015.
China is two to three decades behind developed countries and a lot of capital will be needed before the country is caught up, analysts said. Barriers to growth go beyond the acquisition of modern refrigerated warehouses and trucks. Logistics processes and practices need to be upgraded, and workers must be educated in the importance of maintaining a product’s freshness. Many long-haul truck drivers, for example, shut off their engines to save fuel while taking breaks or waiting in traffic, which also turns off refrigeration machinery, allowing food to spoil.
“The (cold) supply chain hasn’t worked well in a way that it has created awareness and a priority amongst the workers in the system about its importance,” said Gan Chee Wee, principle at consultancy AT Kearney. Gan said the lack of cold distribution points and lack of training mean that perishables and fresh meat and seafood would sometimes be defrosted and then frozen again as it was transported from one place to another.
“The cost of running cold chain is not cheap, especially in a market like China, where the product is produced inland but the point of consumption is at the coastal cities,” Gan said. “In the end you are going to need the pull factor from the consumers in order to really move development of cold chain.”



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MCI, Detecting an Expat Running a Plant for Producing Counterfeit Perfume in Riyadh, 50 Thousand Packets had been seized

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MCI, Detecting an Expat Running a Plant for Producing Counterfeit Perfume in Riyadh, 50 Thousand Packets had been seized

07 December, 2014, Saudi Arabia, USA NEWS CORP
MCI Control Teams had detected an expat of Arab nationality running a plant for producing counterfeit perfume in Al Masani`a Quarter, south of Riyadh. The inspectors monitored illegal labors putting famous trading brands on the outer packaging bearing "Made in France" then to be sold and marketed to the commercial shops in purpose of cheating and misleading the consumers. The site was closed and those involved were summoned for investigation and taking the statutory procedures against them. MCI Inspection Teams had seized 50 thousand Perfumes packets ready to be marketed in the local market. The confiscated items included 20 thousand packets ready for sale, and more than 30 thousand empty bottles ready to be refilled, in addition to more than 25 thousand cartons used for packaging the perfume, and large quantities of posters reading "Made in France". All the quantities were confiscated in cooperation and coordination with the joint security campaigns. During the inspection of the site, located on Al Haiyer Road, South of Riyadh, the Control Teams monitored as well the existence of papers, documents and official seals belonging to Commercial Establishments, while the said plant was not licensed and did not have any external guiding signs illustrating the type of its activity. MCI had announced earlier the detection of illegal labors involved in the storage of 50 thousand counterfeit perfume packets for famous brands in Al Batha Quarter in Riyadh, all the quantities were confiscated and those involved were summoned for investigation and taking the statutory procedures against them. MCI emphasizes the continuation of its surveillance works on the commercial and industrial sectors in all Regions of the Kingdom, to ensure the absence of fraud and adulteration on the consumer, and to respond to all notifications and to apply the regulation on the violators. MCI stresses that it will not tolerate in imposing the statutory penalties on violators and those involved in the practice of counterfeiting, and all that put the health and safety of consumers at risk. MCI calls on all the consumers to report their complaints and observations to the Notification Center in the Ministry through the toll-free number 1900. International Journal of Business Management appreciated the efforts.




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PM Modi ignites international trade between India and Japan

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PM Modi ignites international trade between India and Japan

07 December, Japan, USA NEWS CORP

Mr. Yoichi Miyazawa, Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry, had a meeting with Mr. Nara Chandrababu Naidu, Chief Minister of the State Government of Andhra Pradesh (AP), India, and both sides signed a Memorandum of Cooperation (MOC) on Industrial Development in AP.  This conclusion is a part of the efforts to achieve the target of doubling Japan’s foreign direct investment and the number of Japanese companies in India within five years, which was agreed at the Japan-India Summit Meeting in September 2014, and also the first initiative between the METI minister and the chief minister of India. AP is a state with a variety of industrial advantages, including proximity to the urban area around Chennai, efficient administrative services, many good ports and harbors, and easy accessibility from the East Asian regions, which attract much attention from Japanese companies to the state as a new investment target and exports base. As Hyderabad, the current state capital of AP, is scheduled to become the state capital of Telangana from 2024, a new independent state separated from AP, the AP government is advancing development of a new AP capital as well as industrial promotion at a rapid rate while inviting foreign investment to the state, which provides increased opportunities to Japanese companies to join such development.  Furthermore, AP Chief Minister Naidu, who was inaugurated in June 2014, strived to attract Western major IT enterprises to the state in his post as AP chief minister from 1995 to 2004 and succeeded in raising Hyderabad to become a global IT city, and his ability to achieve results attracted international attention. He is also proactively encouraging investment from Japan and has established a working group jointly with Japanese government officials in India, aiming to attract such investment from Japan.  International Journal of Business Management states that The MOC includes that; METI and relevant governmental organizations will support Japanese companies to develop their business in AP as well as the development of Japanese industrial parks in the state; the state government of AP will endeavor to improve the investment environment in the state, including infrastructure development and setting attractive incentives; and the government will support Japanese companies’ participations in significant projects of AP. This conclusion is expected to further accelerate Japanese companies’ development of their businesses in AP.


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Internet will play a major role for small business development in 2015

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Internet will play a major role for small business development in 2015


Jack Ma, Alibaba Group Executive Chairman attends the Fifth Conference of Zhejiang Chamber of Commerce in Beijing, December 6, 2014. Jack Ma was awarded Honorary Chairman of Zhejiang Chamber of Commerce during the conference. Jack Ma, founder of Alibaba group, said on Thursday how his company is exploring ways to help small businesses not only in China, but all around the whole world. The three-day First World Internet Conference opened on Wednesday in the scenic river town of Wuzhen with roughly 1,000 Internet professionals, from more than 100 countries and regions in attendance. Ma said, "traditionally, all we think about is how to sell products to others and how to get money out of the pockets of consumers. "The internationalization of Alibaba group's business requires us to ponder the issue of how to help others sell their products to us. China's rapidly rising middle class is posting a huge demand for foreign products." In February, Alibaba launched Tmall International dealing mainly in commodities produced or sold in overseas markets and in September the company was the source of the world's biggest initial public offering. Ma believes that in the global village, old trade modes will be transformed, and, within the WTO framework, the rules of game are set by the governments. The market is frequently at the mercy of international relations. The Journal of Economics said The Internet has made it possible for a business world built by the entrepreneurs themselves to evolve on the basis of the market economy and unencumbered by political squabbling. Recently IIT in India has announced that it will give campus placement opportunity to it's alumni entrepreneurs. Jack Ma, founder of Alibaba group , said his next vision is to explore cross-border trade and to fundamentally change the existing trade pattern at a meeting in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province, on Thursday. The meeting was attended by Premier Li Keqiang. Ma said e-commerce will be able to affect the established arrangement between governments and the World Trade Organization, in addition to fundamentally reshaping production, global trade and transportation. "I deeply believe that the arrangement will be replaced by a new trade pattern dominated bye-commerce. For instance, people in Argentina can buy products in Indonesian more easily,"Ma said. Ma said Internet-based credit rating system will be one of the methods to build China's credit system. Global leaders, such as Paul Jacobs, chairman of Qualcomm, and James Smith, CEO of Thomson Reuters, also attended the meeting on Thursday. small business needs to grow well for sustainable growth of economy. India's PM Modi also recognizes the potential of  MAKE IN INDIA. Japan is also closely working on international business and cooperation. This all will shift the business from american economy.






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