Textile and clothing exports from member countries of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) declined sharply in 2012, according to Textiles Intelligence. The main causes were declines in exports to the USA and the EU, ...
The Chinese cyber-spies behind the widely publicised espionage campaign against?The New York Times?have added Dropbox and WordPress to their bag of spear-phishing tricks. The gang, known in security circles as the DNSCalc gang, has been ...
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Around 50 percent of garment production lost by Spain to other countries during the last two decades would come back to the country, Angel Asensio, president of the Spanish Apparel Federation (FEDECON) has said. Mr. Asensio said the ...
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Northeast Asian PET producers on Wednesday expressed concern about rising competition from Southeast Asian producers in the European market, after the EU Council removed antidumping duties on PET imports from five Asian nations. On ...
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LASER 2013: China's competitive nature 16 May 2013 Still dependent on high-tech imports, China is learning on customer experience, but home-grown laser sales and exports are on the up. By Matthew Peach in Munich Asia calling: Laser ...
The Qingming Festival is an opportunity for celebrants to remember and honour their ancestors at grave sites. Young and old pray before the ancestors, sweep the tombs and offer food, tea, wine, chopsticks, joss paper accessories, and/or ...
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Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal (NSSMC) announced that Nippon Steel & Sumikin Coated Sheet, its subsidiary, has finished the investment to a joint venture with BlueScope from Australia. NSSMC bought the 50% share of the joint venture from ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy, Nippon Steel, Sumikin Coated Sheet
The international Taipei Cycle Show posted double-digit growth as visitors from a variety of Asian nations continued to step up their interest in higher-value bicycles, components and accessories. Overall, 28,022 people came to the ...
TAIPEI, Taiwan (BRAIN) — It came at the end of Tony Lo's speech at the opening ceremony for the Taipei Cycle Show. The Taiwan External Trade Development Council (TAITRA), he said, is exploring a major shakeup in the international ...
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Songket, the indigenous luxury handwoven fabric of Southeast Asian nations like Indonesia, Brunei and Malaysia, was showcased at a fashion show hosted by Nilam Larasati Sukanto, the wife of Indonesian Ambassador to Oman, at her residence ...
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To mark the 65th anniversary of Thailand and Myanmar relations, an exhibition displaying the traditional textiles of the two Southeast Asian nations, was recently organized in Yangon, the former capital city of Myanmar. Hosted in ...
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Kishore Biyani, the founder of India-based Future Group, and Hong Kong-based trading firm Li & Fung are planning to enter into a 50:50 joint venture for launching an import and wholesale chain. Li & Fung currently holds a 26 percent ...
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Colombo, the capital city of Sri Lanka, is going to host three concurrent international trade exhibitions, displaying a range of products from the country’s textile and garment sector, from February 28 to March 2, 2013. Organised ...
Asia will become the second-largest global natural gas market after North America by 2015 with annual demand rising to 790 billion cubic meters, the International Energy Agency said in a report released Tuesday. "Asia is already home to ...
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The textile and clothing chain within the ten countries of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) needs to be vertically integrated in order to ensure the competitiveness of the Asean apparel industry. This was echoed by various ...
Tags: apparel sector, textile, clothing