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A POLITICALLY-inspired blockade of highways in Bangladesh, launched by the country’s opposition parties, and related vandalism of lorries trying to break through, is devastating a Bangladeshi poultry sector still reeling from avian flu.

The Bangladesh Poultry Industries Coordination Committee is claiming the country’s poultry industry has sustained losses of USD32 million since political turmoil erupted on January 5 after police surrounded the home of Khaleda Zia, leader of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party.…

A MAJOR Bangladesh knitwear company has launched an innovation that may inspire a new segment in this key outsourcing industry – ‘fake’ heavy knitwear.

DBL Group, based north of Dhaka, has developed this fabric for jerseys made from cotton or a blend of cotton and synthetic fibres. …

Bangladesh’s struggling national carrier Biman is looking for a foreign suitor to upgrade the groundhandling services it currently single-handedly offers at the country’s airports, but the move has been greeted with suspicion from civil aviation unions.

Biman Bangladesh Airlines in December issued advertisements in newspapers seeking a consultant to ready tender documents for a joint venture in groundhandling operations at three international gateway airports within Bangladesh.…

The president of the Turkish Clothing Manufacturers’ Association (TCMA) has told WTiN.com that it is anticipating a slowdown in the Turkish textile and clothing industry’s export growth in 2015 due to difficulties in some of Turkey’s most important markets. Cem Negrin said that the Turkish clothing industry has reached its exports target of USD19 billion for 2014, representing growth of 9.2% on 2013.…

CLOTHING industry leaders in the USA met on Wednesday (Nov 5) in New York and considered whether America’s mid-term elections on the previous day had made securing agreement on the critically important Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) more difficult.

With the opposition Republicans taking control of the US Senate, and consolidating control of its House of Representatives, the task of President Barack Obama in securing special rights to ratify a deal got harder.…

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) is to work with the Japan Fund for Poverty Reduction to help south Asian nations slow the spread of livestock diseases.

In India, livestock sector losses from foot-and-mouth disease alone are estimated at around USD4.5 billion a year, according to the ADB.…

The Bangladesh cabinet on Monday (Nov 10) finally proposed a long awaited law to regulate Bangladesh’s audit profession, which had been stalled amidst disagreements between auditors and management accountants

A draft Financial Reporting Act will now be presented for a vote by the country’s parliament, the Jatiyo Sangshad, although the government has yet to release full details.…

CAMBODIA’S “high cost of electricity  – the third highest in south-east Asia after Singapore and Myanmar – along with low skills are keeping the country away from producing  textiles”, the World Bank chief economist for the east Asia and the Pacific region, Sudhir Shetty has told WTiN.…

EXPERTS on China’s textile and apparel industry say that international brands must take increasing care to ensure their sourcing is environmentally and socially responsible, with tightening government restrictions anticipated.

Their comments to just-style come after the release of a China National Textile and Apparel Council’s (CNTAC) 2013-2014 social responsibility report of the textile industry, released last month (September).…

As the global apparel sector searches for more eco-friendly fibres and fabrics, innovative developments are increasingly focusing on more sustainable and often unusual alternative feedstocks.
Companies are being encouraged to innovate also by recent high cotton prices and a growing awareness that tighter control of supply chains can help keep costs down in general.…