Search Results for: Pakistan
10 results out of 534 results found for 'Pakistan'.
SOURCING - WINNERS AND LOSERS
BY KEITH NUTHALL
WINNERS
TUNISIA
Of all the countries disrupted by the Arab Spring revolts in 2011, Tunisia liberated itself in the swiftest and most business-friendly fashion. This key European supplier rid itself of despotic President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali on January14, and one week later, its textile and clothing sector was back at work.…
CHINA'S LOCAL NUCLEAR SUPPLIERS STILL STRUGGLE TO DEVELOP SUSTAINABLE WORK ORDERS IN AND OUTSIDE CHINA
BY MARK GODFREY
THERE is no end to the number of ambitious companies eyeing a slice of the estimated USD10 billion-a-year demand for nuclear power construction and maintenance in China. And in a country known for its favouritism towards local firms in public procurement contracts, one would assume that mainland Chinese companies would get the maximum share of the spoils.…
UN PUSHES HANDWASHING WITH SOAP TO MILLIONS
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE UNITED Nations has continued to proactively encourage handwashing with soap, staging a Global Handwashing Day in October, with the UN Children’s Fund UNICEF organising events. It said 8 million children in India’s Rajasthan, more than 1 million children in Pakistan,1.7 million children in Afghanistan from 1,700 schools, plus 326,809 Eritrean children in 1,272 schools participated in handwashing events.…
BANGLADESH CLOTHING EXPORTERS PUSH THEIR GOVERNMENT TO HOLD FIRM ON PAKISTANI GSP+
BY RAGHAVENDRA VERMA
BANGLADESH will not oppose the European Union’s (EU) plans to grant Pakistan GSP+ status, just-style has been told. However, the country’s powerful clothing exporters have called on their government to press for the EU to withhold these privileges for products that are important to Bangladesh’s manufacturing industry, including some clothing lines.…
DOMESTIC YARN AND FIBRES SOURCING GROWS IN THE WEST; BUT DEVELOPING COUNTRIES STILL CONQUER SUPPLY CHAIN
BY MJ DESCHAMPS and WANG FANGQING
THE PURCHASE of yarns, fibres and other materials from developing countries for rich country-controlled garment manufacturing has long been a cost-effective business practice; however, many factors – including high shipping costs, and delays in supplies – have caused companies in recent years to look for a supply chain that is closer to home.…
GLOOMY OUTLOOK FOR FREE TRADERS IN KNITTING SECTOR - BUT EU ORIGIN LABEL PLANS DROPPED
BY KEITH NUTHALL and DAVE YIN
THIS has been the year where the European Union (EU) considered imposing a draconian origin labelling law that would have been a major headache for knitwear manufacturers and retailers. In the winter, the European Parliament was seriously discussing insisting on a regulation forcing knitwear and crocheted clothes and accessories imports into the EU to carry country of origin labels.…
FREEZING OUT AL QAEDA AND THE TALIBAN
BY PAUL COCHRANE
UNDER the United Nations’ Al-Qaeda and Taliban sanctions regime, more than 30 states have frozen at least US dollars USD90 million in assets as of September 2010. But Al Qaeda, the Taliban and other designated terrorist groups in the Middle East and Central Asia continue to receive funding despite the region’s widespread adoption of international regulations on anti-money laundering and combating the financing of terrorism (AML/CTF).…
PAKISTAN NURSE FACES REGULAR DEMANDS OF TERRORIST BOMBING VICTIMS
BY RAHIMULLAH YUSUFZAI
AFTER every bomb explosion in and around Peshawar city in northwestern Pakistan,an emergency is declared at the city’s Lady Reading Hospital, named after the wife of a former Viceroy of India.
When this happens, Umia Begum and other nurses in this public hospital are put on standby – it is the destination of most victims of unrest in this strife-torn city.…
PAKISTAN ACCOUNTANTS DEAL WITH MAJOR DAMAGE CAUSED BY SUMMER FLOODS
BY RAHIMULLAH YUSUFZAI
THE FLOODS that devastated Pakistan this past summer did not just destroy farmland and housing – they ruined many financial records and legal documents, making life that much harder for accountants in Pakistan. "We don’t know how to deal with the aftermath of the floods because there is still no mechanism on the part of the government or the private sector to cope with the challenges and difficulties that our accounting community is facing," said a senior chartered accountant RafaqatUllah Babar.…
ASBESTOS EXPERT ACCUSES JAPAN OF PUSHING FAULTY ASBESTOS TEST
BY JULIAN RYALL
JAPAN is being accused of trying to write its own official asbestos testing system into an international standard, because it knows it does not work and so will get its government off the hook for asbestos exposure cases.…