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BY PHILIPPA JONES, DOMINIQUE PATTON and LUCY JONES

The growth in outsourcing within the clothing and textile sector worldwide has highlighted a key issue, and that is the relative merits of running an integrated company that handles basic production and design, or relying on a string of specialist suppliers to deliver the goods, from fibre supplies, to textile manufacture, design, clothing assembly and retail.…

BY PAUL COCHRANE

EVERY year villages and fields in Bangladesh are trampled by herds of roaming wild Asian elephants, destroying houses and gorging on crops central to people’s livelihoods. Villagers are also frequently wounded or even killed warding off elephants, so what do Bangladeshis think should be done?…

By Paul Cochrane

The old dictum goes – ‘one man’s loss is another man’s gain’. Curiously, in a globalised world in the midst of a financial downturn, this saying is particularly true, with certain countries unexpectedly benefiting from an otherwise near universal crisis.…

BY PAUL COCHRANE

BANGLADESH’S clothing and ready made garment sector is undergoing unprecedented expansion, registering an average growth of 20% year on year, and with plans to be one of the top three exporters globally by 2013.

In the first four months of Bangladesh’s fiscal year, from July to September 2008, the sector reported 45% growth in exports of woven and knitwear to US$3.35 billion, according to the Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exports Association (BGMEA).…

BY PAUL COCHRANE

BANGLADESH’S US$100 million annual dye and associated chemicals market has reported double digit growth over the past three years on the back of the rapid expansion in the ready made garments and knitwear sectors.

"Bangladesh is a growing market for dyeing, especially since 2005 as more factories are opening," said Wohid Uddin Mahmud, managing partner in Technocrat Enterprise, agent for textile dyeing, washing and laundry machines for Italy’s Flainox, the US’s X-Rite and South Korea’s DaeLim Starlet.…

BY PAUL COCHRANE

PLAYERS serving the US$900 million Bangladeshi tobacco market have contracted over the past several years from 15 companies to just seven – with Dhaka Tobacco and British American Tobacco (BAT) now joint number one companies in terms of quantity.…

BY KENCHO WANGDI

LIKE other nurses in the remote Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan, religion played a part in convincing Dechen Om that she should become a nurse.

A Buddhist, like most of her co-patriots, she believed that by becoming a nurse she would get the chance to serve ill people and earn good karma so in the next life she would be born into a good family.…

BY PACIFICA GODDARD

CHINA’S entry into the World Trade Organisation (WTO) in 2002 and the recent end of quotas in the US and European markets have created gigantic changes in the textile industry worldwide, with developing markets like those in Latin America expected to suffer the most from these shifts.…

BY RAGHAVENDRA VERMA, in New Delhi; SAEED AKHTAR BALOCH, in Lahore; and KEITH NOYAHR, in Colombo

THE SOUTH Asian knitwear industry is experienced mixed fortunes at present, with the impact of China’s production boom and the global liberalisation of the textile sector still changing sub-continental fortunes.…

BY DOMINIQUE PATTON, in Beijing, RAGHAVENDRA VERMA, in New Delhi, and KEITH NUTHALL

TIME was when the Chinese clothing industry was all about exports. But the astonishing success of China’s export industry has inspired competitors, making life harder for its exporters.…