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HONG Kong shirt maker Esquel has launched a new private brand Determinant, for men in mainland China who wish to buy an affordable, decent shirt, but CEO John Cheh insists that making shirts for major outside labels will remain the company’s priority.…

Clothing brands and manufacturers wanting to maximise their financial performance are being offered an increasingly varied and sophisticated aware of software systems guiding their planning and operations.

US-based Centric Software Inc provided an update to its flagship PLM (product lifecycle management) solution in this summer, adding features to gain additional financial insight, perform deeper financial analyses and render information available offline, to further streamline planning, costing and quote management.…

The Kenya bath and shower product market is projected to grow on average by 3% year-on-year to 2020, according to UK-based market researcher Euromonitor International. In a report released this September (2016), the sector during 2015 was valued at Kenyan Shillings KES2.4 billion (USD23.4 million at recent exchange rates).…

Turkey’s rocky political situation following the failed military coup of July 15, the following massive purges and recurring terrorist bombings may have a negative effect on the country’s large textiles sector, experts are warning.

“It’s likely to lead to some uncertainties, obviously, in the general economy,” Turkey-born economist Ozan Şakar, of managing director of London-based Descartes Capital.…

THE UNITED States and China have released detailed plans for reducing their governments’ support for fossil fuel, production and use, as they announced their ratification of the COP21 climate change deal struck in Paris last December.

These policy promises from Washington and Beijing have emerged from voluntary peer reviews chaired by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation & Development (OECD).…

A public forum on how universities help promote transformative leadership by women has highlighted the difficulty of framing policies that simultaneously encourage personal development and directly assist women in securing equal opportunities. This discussion comes at a time when women outnumber men in university enrolment globally, but continue to trail men in leadership positions in government, research, and the formal economy.…

The year-long European Parliament investigation into the ‘dieselgate’ emissions fixing scandal, plus the shockwaves from the revelations themselves, are driving a sea-change in Europe’s type approval system.  The European Union’s democratic assembly set up a Committee of Inquiry into Emission Measurements in the Automotive Sector (EMIS) last December (2015) to probe EU compliance with emissions and type approval laws after it emerged that Volkswagen and probably other carmakers had used illegal defeat devices to cheat tests.…

THE SHORTAGE of skilled labour is the “second most pressing issue next to political instability” that is hindering growth in Thailand manufacturing firms, a Bangkok-based World Bank expert has told People Management.

Indeed, the south-east Asian country’s skilled labour shortage has been getting worse: for example, the number of weeks it takes to fill a vacancy for a skilled worker in Thailand has increased from about five weeks on average in 2007 to about eight weeks in 2015, said the World Bank’s east Asia and Pacific programme leader for poverty and human development Lars Sondergaard.…

As the Northern Ireland government lurched from crisis to political crisis in recent years there has been less focus on the rivers of dirty money flowing through and out of the province, the results of criminal enterprises run by Ulster’s paramilitaries.…

The word from David Lewis, the new secretary general of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF), is that the UK’s impending ‘Brexit’ departure from the European Union (EU) should not immediately compromise the global fight against money laundering. “The United Kingdom is a founding member of the FATF and its membership and participation in the FATF is not dependent on its membership of the EU”, he told the Money Laundering Bulletin in an exclusive interview.…