Organized by Ministry of Trade-Vietnam Trade Fair & Advertising National Company, Paper Communication Exhibition Service and Yorkers Trade & Marketing Service Co., Ltd., the show is going to occupy over 18000 sqm in 700 stalls, more than 15 country’s participation, VTG 2008 is the most significant event in the country, it is an event not […]
Bangladesh’s textile industry will be badly hit by major garment importers refusing to buy products made with cotton from Uzbekistan, business leaders said on Monday.
From July, several European and U.S. firms will not buy Bangladeshi garments if they are made with cotton from Uzbekistan, due to allegations of child labour in the industry.
Bangladesh procures 65 […]
Nine blocks away looms the historic Apollo Theater, where busloads of tourists regularly unload for a nostalgic glimpse of Harlem’s storied days. Yet increasingly every year, a decidedly foreign feel prevails on this particular stretch of Harlem — Le Petit Senegal, as it is often called. Young men sell sweet-smelling incense, and middle-aged women with […]
Millions of Turks flocked to vote on Sunday in a parliamentary election seen as crucial to the future direction of this large Muslim but secular democracy straddling Europe and the Middle East.Opinion polls show the ruling pro-business, Islamist-rooted AK Party government winning a fresh five-year mandate but strong gains by nationalist and secularist opposition parties […]
Nhan Dan Online - A workshop was held in Hanoi on July 19 to launch the Corporate Social Responsibility Award (CSR) 2007 – Footwear and Garment Industries in Vietnam.
The award organisers include the Vietnam Chamber of Commerce and Industry (VCCI), and ActionAid Vietnam, in co-ordination with the Ministry of Industry (MoI), the Ministry of Labour, […]
A garment firm, Thai Silp South East Import Export Co, will shut down its factory on August 7 due to heavy loss and offer severance pay to about 6,000 employees, Labour Minister Apai Chandanachulaka said Thursday.
About 200 policemen were on guard as employees peacefully rallied outside the factory in Bang Phli district of the Bangkok’s […]
Dear Abby: My sister-in-law recently came for a visit. I have not really trusted “Claire” since I began noticing that every time she would leave, a garment or two of mine was missing.
During this last visit, I noticed a shirt I had just washed was missing from where I had left it. I mentioned it […]
Footwear and garment businesses with good corporate social responsibility (CSR) performance in 2007 will be given prizes at a ceremony to be held in December.
The CRS award, the third of its kind under the initiative of the Viet Nam Chamber of Commerce and Industry (VCCI) and ActionAid Vietnam, aims to improve the image and trustworthiness […]
The income tax (I-T) department on Friday, conducted raids at 14 places of a garment manufacturer in the city. They were accompanied by the local police.
The raids, which started early in the morning, were still in progress when this report was being filed.
Several banks which had earlier provided loans to the Thai Silp South East Import Export Co. have offered to extend additional funds to the debt-ridden garment factory which recently declared its intention to go out of business early next month.
Kasikorn Bank vice president Boonthak Wangcharoen said executives of the Thai Silp garment factory’s […]
Textile and garment exports reached US$680 million in June, lifting the industry’s total earnings in the first six months of the year to $3.4 billion, according to the Viet Nam Textile and Apparel Association (Vitas).
Though the six-month figure was up 25.9 per cent over the same period last year, it met only 47 per cent […]
The moon is waning. The morning stars are Mercury, Mars, Neptune and Uranus. The evening stars are Jupiter, Venus and Saturn.
Those born on this date are under the sign of Cancer. They include Elias Howe, inventor of the sewing machine, in 1819; Nicola Tesla, inventor of the electromagnetic motor, in 1856; historian Samuel Eliot […]