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GLOBAL knitwear outsourcing centre Bangladesh is expected to soon ratify the emerging market D-8 PTA preferential trade agreement, newspaper reports in Dhaka say, indicating the government may have loosened demands over rules of origin. Bangladesh has been pushing for its manufacturers to gain privileged access to D-8 markets (Iran, Indonesia, Malaysia, Pakistan, Nigeria and Turkey, as well as Egypt if it also ultimately ratifies), if 30% of value in a product is created within Bangladesh.…

Major Japanese snack company Calbee, which is known for potato chips and granola, will start to manufacture the ‘Frugura’ branded granola in Japan for the Chinese market, the company CEO Akira Matsumoto has told journalists in Tokyo today (May 10).

Frugura is currently manufactured for the Japanese market at a Calbee plant in Utsunomiya city, north of Tokyo.…

SINGAPORE Airlines has launched ‘green package’ for its San Francisco-Singapore route, with planes burning a biofuel-kerosene blend, with the biofuel component including used cooking oils. The flights, which began on May 1, also use the airline’s most fuel-efficient aircraft, with special efforts to optimise flight paths and air traffic management to cut fuel consumption and carbon emissions.…

THE CIVIL Aviation Administration of China (CAAC) has claimed that its government’s policy of forging transport links with countries in central Asia, south and south-east Asia, Africa and Europe (the so-called ‘belt and road’ plan) is promoting air travel between China and these states.…

THE CHINESE government will from June 1 require the registration of all civilian drones weighing more than 250 grammes, should operators want to fly them legally in China’s airspace. Owners will have to register them using their real personal names, the Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC) has announced.…

BRIDGING the digital divide in a largely conventional and labour- intensive industry such as garment and textile manufacturing is often a challenge. But Malaysia’s G.PRO Technologies – an arm of Apparel Alliance Sdn Bhd – is re-defining shop flow operations in the apparel business with its innovative software and hardware – helping the industry transition towards digitalisation. …

Evidence is growing that China is taking on a growing role as an anti-fraud gatekeeper for the banking sector – with its banks increasing the number of correspondent relationships they have with foreign financial institutions.  The new role comes as US and European banks, faced tougher regulations on ensuring their clients are not tainted by crime and terrorism, are derisking their relations with foreign banks and abandoning correspondent agreements.…

ISRAEL’S booming natural and organic cosmetics sector has grown largely because of its focus on scoring international sales and manufacturers have in the past shown less interest in increasing the local market base. But this strategy has been changing significantly of late. …

AUSTRALIA is witnessing something of a sea change when it comes to natural and organic cosmetics.

Jill Chambers, founder of a natural and vegan cosmetics company The Makeup Factory, based in Perth, told Cosmetics Business Markets “Just a few years ago there was a huge misconception that if a brand was natural it wasn’t effective.”…

While South Korea has not yet ratified the UN’s Paris Agreement dealing with greenhouse gas emissions, its important automobile industry has been making serious commitments to green practices, including the transition from solvent-based to waterborne coatings.

According to New Jersey, US-based coatings consulting firm Kusumgar, Nerlfi & Growney, the South Korean passenger car and light vehicle coating market involved supplies of 60,000 tonnes in 2016, and these are becoming increasingly environment-friendly: about one-quarter of basecoats sold are now waterborne.…