Several High Street and high-end fashion brands have been implicated in a report on labour abuses in Cambodia. Human Rights Watch says it has uncovered alleged abuses at Cambodian garment factories that supply Marks & Spencer, Gap, H&M, Adidas and Armani. The pressure group found evidence of discrimination and anti-union practices, it says. It believes that short-term contracts can prevent workers from asserting their rights. HRW says it also found evidence of people being fo

The intention of cotton-growing in China will go downward in 2015, expanding 7.5 percentage points compared to 2014. A survey conducted in January on 95 counties, 98 towns, 313 villages and 2,742 cotton growers shows that 41.4% of them will keep the same growing area as in last year, down 20.4 percentage points from a year ago; 5.9% of them will increase cotton-growing area, down 1.1 percentage point from last year; 41.6% of them will reduce cotton-growing area, 14.0 percentage higher than last

Despite rising cotton prices on Tuesday, spinners continued to build up their stocks fearing delay in arrival of next crop. The next cotton crop is likely to be late by three to four days, as a result of the ongoing spell of rain in Punjab and cold weather in Sindh. The higher consumption of cotton by the textile industry is also putting pressure on lint prices which have moved to a seasonal high of Rs5,250 per maund. However, shortage of quality lint is another major factor which has pushed

Staff Correspondent The government-set review committee has started its review on three more garment factories where the International Labour Organisation-appointed inspection teams found structural faults and recommended the committee for next course of action immediately. The review committee comprised of representatives from the government, Accord, Alliance, BUET, BGMEA and BKMEA on Friday reviewed a factory located in Chittagong and asked the factory authorities for load management immed

Worries of the Punjab based textile industry are increasing due to merely four to six hours a day gas supply to the captive power plants (CPPs) despite a clear-cut instruction of uninterrupted supply by the Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif. The industry circles have criticised the Sui Northern Gas Pipelines Ltd (SNGPL) for not following the government's decision regarding gas supply to textile units, which constitute 70 percent of the total capacity in the country. Meanwhile, the press reports re

Indian textile and apparel industry is growing at the rate of 8-12%, and if the same growth is maintained or little higher, the industry is likely to get the double-digit growth during the FY15-16. As post the union budget, the economy will remain bullish because some of the fundamentals for economic growth are looking very good, according to Sanjay Behl, Chief Executive officer (Lifestyle business), Raymond. Sanjay Behl at a fashion show for the launch of Raymond Linen said that he is enthus

The country's import of jute fell off by over eight percent to $23.581 million during July-January 2015, according to official statistics. The country had imported $25.754 million of jute during July-January 2013-14, which was higher by $2.173 million as compared to the jute import during July-January 2014-15, Pakistan Bureau of Statistics say. In term of volume: the country's import of jute remained at 43,703 metric tons in July-January 2014-15, falling by 5626 metric tons or 11.41 percent

China's consumer inflation rebounded in February from a more-than-five-year low, official data showed Tuesday, but a plunge in factory gate prices added to persistent concerns about deflation in the world's second-largest economy. The 1.4 percent increase in the consumer price index (CPI) compared with a gain of 0.8 percent in January, according to National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) figures. The result, which exceeded the median forecast for a 1.0 percent gain in a survey of analysts by B

The first Pakistan Leather Show, besides portraying a positive image of the country, will be a good start to encourage the international buyers to come to Pakistan and benefit from the tremendous potential existing in the leather sector of the country. This was stated by the exhibitors of the three-day Leather Show held from March 6-8 at the Lahore International Expo Centre for the revival of the leather industry of Pakistan. Key federal government officials, foreign associations and diplo

Turkey, the second largest exporter of Pakistani handmade carpets, after striking Safeguard Measures Duty of 42. 2 percent on Pakistan's apparel imports in 2011, has now imposed another 50 percent custom duty on 130 Pakistani products including hand knotted carpets, leading to further decline in the already squeezed carpet export of about $128 million. The Pakistan Carpet Manufacturers and Exporters Association, in a letter written to Federal Minister of Commerce, has criticized the decisi