Germany is sending out a message to the global textile industry for fair production. The steering committee of the Partnership for Sustainable Textiles, the German Development Ministry and the textile industry have put in place a roadmap ...
A new research in England says that while the UK’s leading clothing retailer Marks and Spencer has encouraged more sustainable consumption of clothes, such successes are unlikely to be replicated on a larger scale without more ...
Two years after the Rana Plaza tragedy, Bangladesh’s Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD) believes that all initiatives undertaken after the industrial disaster should soon meet the expected outcome. The consequences and lessons ...
Tags: Bangladesh, Industrial Safety
Breakfast cereal manufacturer Kellogg’s today announced its commitment to implement the voluntary Health Star Ratings on all of its cereals across Australia and New Zealand from the beginning of June 2015. Kellogg’s said ...
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China may raise retail oil prices for a second time this month as a new window for adjusting gasoline and diesel prices opens on Friday, Gasoline and diesel retail prices are likely to be raised by more than 300 yuan (49 U.S. dollars) per ...
Tags: oil prices, gasoline
French dairy group Lactalis has got approval from Brazilian antitrust authority to purchase the dairy units of food processor BRF SA in a deal worth $594m. Lactalis will execute the deal through its Parmalat subsidiary in Brazil. ...
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The Federation of India Export Organisations (FIEO) wants government backing to arrest falling exports.FIEO president SC Ralhan said the trade data for the month of the March, 2015 showed a decline of over 21 per cent in exports and close ...
Tags: Govt Support, Falling Exports
China has cut the number of restrictions on foreign investment for new pilot free trade zones in Tianjin, Guangdong and Fujian and also for the zone in Shanghai.To increase transparency, the central government has made public a "negative ...
Hit by sluggish Chinese demand, India’s cotton export is expected to fall 29 per cent to 7 million bales in the current crop year that ends in September. India has so far exported only 4.5 million bales of cotton this year, media ...
Tags: Chinese demand, cotton export
Italian fashion retailer Benetton said it has contributed an additional $1.1 million to the Rana Plaza Trust Fund, doubling the sum recommended in an independent assessment of its contribution by PwC. “This payment of $1.1 ...
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The International Labour Organisation has called for greater social dialogue among representatives of government, employers and workers in the Bangladesh ready-made garment sector, highlighting the gains this would bring. “There are ...
The country will move faster to develop its energy-saving and new-energy vehicle industry to ease pressure on resources and the environment. Subsidies for new-energy car buyers in 2014 and 2015 will be raised from previous levels set by a ...
Axalta Coating Systems has planted the first lot of trees to start the “Axalta Forest” in Jiangjiakou City, Hebei Province, setting down the roots for a better environment in China and enabled itself be part of the local ...
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Based on the information released by the National Bureau of Statistics of China, we can see that China’s coatings market in 2014 grew by around eight percent last year over 2013. And the fact that China’s architectural coatings ...
China-based Hanergy Thin Film Power Group Ltd and the Huangpi District People's Government in Wuhan City have entered into an investment cooperation agreement to construct a gallium arsenide (GaAs) thin-film solar cell R&D and manufacturing ...
Tags: Solar Cells, gallium arsenide