In view of the rapid spread of COVID-19 across the world, China has decided to temporarily suspend the entry into China by foreign nationals holding visas or residence permits still valid to the time of this announcement, effective from 0 a.m., 28 march 2020. Entry by foreign nationals with APEC Business Travel Cards will be suspended as well. Policies including port visas, 24/72/144-hour visa-free transit policy, Hainan 30-day visa-free policy, 15-day visa-free policy specified for foreign crui

From today on 25 March, India will be under complete lockdown as it looks to stave off the coronavirus epidemic that is quickly spreading within its borders.Some parts of the country had been locked down for the past two days, but starting today, movement will be restricted nationwide for the next 21 days, with limited exceptions.“From 12 midnight tonight, the entire country will go under a complete lockdown,” Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi said yesterday.Figure:India shuts factories, locks

Almost all the entire earthmen have been advised for self-isolation ‘Remain at your home. Do not go to work, school, restaurant or public areas. Separate yourself from other people. Stay in a well-ventilated room with a window to the outside that can be opened but Keep the door closed. Many areas, offices, schools have locked down and companies like JP Morgan, Twitter advised their people to work from home. In Bangladesh, some companies also have started the same practice and many companies have

Zara owner Inditex may soon be stitching hospital scrubs, helping its home country Spain fight the coronavirus epidemic.Inditex last week informed that the epidemic had shut nearly half its stores around the world.It was studying converting part of its textile manufacturing capacity in Spain to produce hospital gowns. It also said it would make available to Spain its vast logistics and supplier network, especially in China, to “meet Spain’s emergency needs of both medical and textile materials”

LISBON - The 2020 Global Cotton Sustainability Conference - which was due to be held in Lisbon in June - has been postponed because of the COVID-19 pandemic.The Better Cotton Initiative (BCI), which organises the event, has decided the conference will now be held in the Portuguese capital city on 2–4 March 2021.BCI leaders said the decision had not been taken lightly but felt it was the most "responsible approach" to safeguard the health and wellbeing of staff, members, partners and st

The April edition of Performance Days in Munich will not now take place in its usual form. The event was to run on April 22 and 23.Organiser, Design & Development GmbH Textile Consult, announced on March 25 that it was cancelling the event and that it would not seek to rearrange it later in the year (a second 2020 edition of Performance Days is due to take place in Munich on October 28 and 29).Instead, Design & Development GmbH Textile Consult said it wanted to find a way to allow Perfor

MANCHESTER – Scientists have found a new way in which microplastics and textile microfibres find their way into deep sea marine environments – through submarine avalanches.It’s estimated that over 10 million tons of plastic pollution is exported into the oceans each year with around 99 per cent of this is stored in the deep sea. However, it was previously not known how plastic pollution gets to the deep sea from land.The researchers say that studying the distribution of different types of marine

AMSTERDAM – Denim trade fair Kingpins is to host a two day online event in place of its Amsterdam event which was cancelled because of the COVID-19 pandemic.'Kingpins24' will take place on 22-23 April, the same dates when the Kingpins Amsterdam denim trade show would have taken place. It will go live at 9am CET on April 22 via the Kingpins' website-- and wrap up at midnight on April 23.“We, as a whole, are resilient, resourceful and optimistic,” said Kingpins founder Andrew Olah who

ITM 2020 International Textile Machinery Exhibition and HIGHTEX 2020 International Technical Textile & Nonwoven Trade Fair, organized with the partnership of Tüyap Tüm Fuarcılık Yapım A.Ş and Teknik Fuarcılık A.Ş to be held in Istanbul Tüyap Convention and Congress Center this year between June 2-6, have been postponed to 14-18 July 2020, as a result of decisions taken by World Health Organization (WHO) and Turkey – Ministry of Health.The ITM and HIGHTEX Project Groups, see their primary res

Agricultural waste burned in fields across states around Delhi would be enough to replace over half of global cotton production by building bio-refineries and textile fibre production plants to make efficient use of biomass, according toprogramme. This would help improve air quality and carbon dioxide levels.Pic: Shutterstockfocusing on the Nordic and Baltic countries, Poland, Russia and India. Fortum operates power plants, including co-generation plants.The crop residue potential varies signifi