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A MINIATURE schnauzer embarrassed baggage screeners at Hong Kong International Airport and New Chitose Airport, Sapporo, Japan, passing undetected on and off an international flight, hidden in a suitcase. The dog’s Hong Kong owner claimed that his pet had hopped covertly into unattended baggage at home, covering itself with clothes.…

Bangladesh’s top textiles makers are racing against time to alter the way they print fabric. The reason is simple: go digital or risk losing a competitive edge.

Vertically integrated textile manufacturing major Noman Group told Digital Textile that it is carefully considering digital textile investments.…

Five years since the start of the Arab uprisings in 2011, instability is still impacting cosmetics sales in the Levant and north Africa. Last year saw a slight improvement on overall sales in 2014, the year the Islamic State spread through northern Iraq and Syria, but figures are down on 2013, and the growth projected in 2010, according to figures from market researcher Euromonitor International and estimates from cosmetics companies.…

PRIVATE label brands for cosmetics and personal care products are attracting consumers with an increasingly wide range of offerings that stress their value-added nature, as well as affordable prices. Reflecting private labels’ innate reliance on quality and function rather than image, manufacturers supplying these products have been especially focusing on using scents to add value, from traditional florals to more adventurous notes.…

European cosmetics companies have applauded the decision by the Japanese government to abolish from January 1 import notifications on cosmetics and quasi-drugs as “great progress.”

The changes announced by Japan’s ministry of health labour and welfare have come after many years of pressure for change, notably by the European Business Council in Japan (EBC),, whose member companies say the new rules will “significantly simplify import procedures”.…

WHILE Russia has signed an agreement deal to build a nuclear power plant (NPP) in Egypt, a move that would give the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region its only NPP with third generation plus technology, significant obstacles remain before operations could be launched.…

Many eyes are trained on the Jiading district people’s court in Shanghai this week, which is due to deliver a verdict in the trial of staff from two subsidiaries of the OSI Group LLC, the Illinois-based US meat firm that is a major meat supplier in China.…

Japan’s Consumer Safety Investigation Commission has called on the government to require medicine manufacturers to introduce child-resistant packaging. In a report to the country’s ministry of health, labour and welfare, the commission stressed the risks posed by young children’s tendency to put things into their mouths.…

Innovative protective coatings have always been marked on their ability to deliver a function with excellence. However, there is real marketing gold where companies can demonstrate that coatings deliver a range of protective functions at the same time, such as waterproofing, insulating, and protecting aesthetics.…

MANY garment manufacturers in the 10-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) block will have to cope with raises to the minimum wages in 2016. The move comes as ASEAN launches its Economic Community (ASEAN EC) on December 31, easing labour movement across the region.…