Germany-based global chemical company BASF is planning to invest €10bn with a strategy to focus on sustainability in the Asia Pacific region by 2020. BASF is said to collaborate with the customers in the selected markets to discuss ...
The redevelopment project of LangPrabang International Airport, for which China Camc Engineering acted as a general contractor, held the completion ceremony on June 1. The redevelopment project, commencing in April 2010, is the first ...
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Indonesia's textile sector needs to work on its efficiency to compete with the textile industries of other ASEAN countries, Ramon Bangun, director of textile and miscellaneous industries, at the Ministry of Industry of Indonesia, has said. ...
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Qixi Festival, also known as the Qiqiao Festival, is a Chinese festival that celebrates the annual meeting of the cowherd and weaver girl in Chinese mythology. It falls on the seventh day of the 7th lunar month. It is sometimes called the ...
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Beger Company, a Thai maker and distributor of wood coatings and industrial paint products, plans to set up its first foreign plant in Indonesia in the next five years to tap demand there. Vice-president Worawat Chaiyosburana said the ...
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Southeast Asian textiles first served as markers of ethnic identity, distinguishing neighboring communities by pattern, color, and technique. Now commercial production challenges these practices, yet the artistic wealth of these several ...
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With the theme “Dream, Believe, Achieve”, the third edition of InFashion kicked off on 20th March 2013 where the three day event brought together the entire textile, apparel and fashion community to exhibit, buy, and source and ...
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DKSH Business Unit Performance Materials, a specialty chemicals distributor and provider of market expansion services for performance materials and Synthomer, a leading suppliers of emulsion polymers for coatings, construction chemicals, ...
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Asia's phenomenal growth can be the saviour of Australian manufacturing, says Minister for Trade Dr Craig Emerson. Though Australia has become “weighed down” by the high dollar, there are still many opportunities for ...
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Larry R. Phillips BOCA RATON, Fla. — Larry R. Phillips, a founder of high-end furnishings and home décor source Phillips Collection, has died at 95. Phillips ended up in home furnishings by way of the apparel industry. ...
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Asia's polymer market has shrugged off China's new preferential import duties for polyethylene from some countries, as the minimum price for the tax reduction to kick in is seen as too high and trade flows from these nations are almost ...
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IT spending growth in the Asia-Pacific region is expected to slow as countries including China and India grapple with emerging economic issues as a result of the world economic crisis, according to research firm Forrester. Spending by ...
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The final exhibition at The Textile Museum before its 2014 reopening will showcase the textile traditions of Southeast Asia and demonstrate how four contemporary artists integrate the best of the past into new works. “Out of Southeast ...
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World Eco Fibre & Textile (WEFT) Art Exhibition, which aims to explore the vivid contemporary global textile traditions by giving an insight into the latest trends of textile arts, is going to take place from January 18 to March 23, 2013, ...
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The Jakarta Post reported that steel products manufacturer PT Saranacentral Bajatama is planning to widen its market to include Southeast Asian countries, such as Malaysia, Myanmar and Thailand to benefit from the low import tariffs ...
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