Vietnamese brand names and clothing shops in HCM City are offering new collections for the style-conscious young consumer this summer. Designers for Kim, a brand name owned by designer Phúc Trần, combine simplicity and practicality at their shops in District 3. They offer a new collection titled My Summer for boys and girls aged 10 to 14, using pastel, neon, black and white on cotton, linen and denim. With more than 40 designs this season, Kim’s items sell from VNĐ200,000 (US

Country’s export oriented RMG factory owners are likely to get exemption from paying premium for group insurance for workers as the labour ministry and sector leaders have agreed in principle to realise the insurance claim from the RMG central fund. According to members of the executive board of the central fund for the RMG sector, the garment factory owners would have no need to introduce group insurance in their establishments rather if any worker dies in any establishment the company would

Cotton sowing has been completed on an area of 4.4 million acre in Multan, DG Khan and Bahawalpur divisions and remaining target will be achieved by May 31. This was stated by Director General agriculture (Extension and Adaptive Research) Syed Zafaryab Haidar Naqvi while addressing a seminar organized by agriculture department in cooperation with ICI in Rajanpur on Monday, says in a press release. Zafaryab said that sowing target for Punjab was fixed at six million acres including 4.9 mi

Businessmen in the export-oriented garment accessories sector are fearing a rise in production costs due to implementation of the proposed VAT law from July despite assurances to the contrary from the revenue authority. At present, all export-oriented sectors are out of the purview of value-added tax. The new law prescribes a uniform 15 percent VAT for most goods and services. The VAT officials at the field levels -- knowingly or unknowingly -- have said that if any trader buys garment acc

Australian wool prices have doubled in Japan over the past year but it has not deterred the Japanese market from buying. As the quality they require is always of the highest standard, a Japanese wool broker said. Mike Kuritani from Itochu, one of Japan's largest trading companies, said that demand will remain due to an appetite for high quality fine micron wool from Australia despite the high prices. He said that in fact a new market is coming up from sports apparel, for socks and innerwea

A delegation from Tiruppur Exporters Association (TEA) visited Odisha to explore investment opportunities to set up garment manufacturing units. During the visit to Ramdaspur in Odisha where a new textile park is being set up, the delegation also discussed with the government officials opportunities to make investment in the textile park. Further, the delegation headed by the TEA general secretary TR Vijayakumar also discussed about the Odisha apparel policy with the government officials. As

Agricultural experts from the US Department of Agriculture’s Agricultural Research Service are in talks with Pakistani government, agriculturists and private sector on improving cotton productivity, mainly by combating losses to cotton production due to the Cotton Leaf Curl Virus (CLCuV), under the US-Pakistan Cotton Productivity Enhancement Programme. The two sides discussed the US-Pakistan Cotton Productivity Enhancement Programme (CPEP) at a recent meeting in Pakistan. Pakistani governmen

A worker operates a high-end sewing machine at an intelligent fabric-cutting workshop of Dayang Group Co Ltd in Dalian, Liaoning province. CHANG XIAOCHAO / FOR CHINA DAILY Made-to-measure suits Dayang fine Garment maker seeks tie-ups to sell millions of suits annually Chinese garment manufacturer Dayang Group Co Ltd is focused on building the world's biggest online platform for custom-made suits. For, in the words of Hu Dongmei, CEO of Dayang, "made-to-measure is the future of apparel".

The Department of Inspection for Factories and Establishments (DIFE) cannot start the inspection of nearly 1,000 small-sized garment factories for a lack of funds. Those factories are small and not included in any of the three inspection agencies, namely the Accord, the Alliance and the National Initiative, said Md Shamsuzzaman Bhuiyan, inspector-general of the government agency. Since the Rana Plaza building collapse in April 2013, the three initiatives have been inspecting nearly 3,800 f

Sportswear brand adidas has announced a partnership with Aquafil, a leading producer of Nylon 6 for carpets and apparel, to use the company’s 100% regeneratedEconylfibre in the Spring/Summer 2017. The regenerated waste still offers the same qualities as materials usually found in wider swim apparel. The garments are durable, lightweight and breathable but with the additional environmental benefits of using regenerated waste, the company reports. Once collected, pre- and post-consumer Nyl