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Seattle Post Intelligencer
Small Retail: For the love of Indonesia
Zamboanga features batik from the nation where owners met

By NOEL LYN SMITH
P-I REPORTER

While browsing the apparel at Zamboanga, try checking the label, because it may offer some encouraging words: “The most important day of your life is … today.”
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Garment cargo dips by 25 percent
Saipan Tribune
By Agnes Donato
Reporter

Thursday, June 15, 2014
* Inbound garment cargo also slips by 25 percent
* Total outbound cargo posts 15-percent decline
* Total inbound cargo decrease by 15 percent

The worldwide lifting of trade quotas continues to negatively impact the local garment industry, with outbound cargo of finished garment products dropping by 25 percent during the first seven months of fiscal year 2014, Ports Authority data showed.

This figure represents the volume of apparel products that are for off-island sales.

The same decline rate is also recorded in the inbound numbers for garment raw materials. Read more about Garment cargo dips by 25 percent …

Indonesia’s garment producers told to improve productivity, quality
Jakarta Post, Indonesia

JAKARTA (JP):Indonesia’s garment producers have to improve productivity,service and, most importantly, quality, if they want win a bigger share of the world market, particularly in the United States, a consultant suggests.

“Price is no longer a major issue in the world garment market, but product quality is,” Senada global marketing consultant Andreas Saldias Pozo told a media conference Thursday. Read more about Indonesia's garment producers told to improve productivity, quality …

Computerized Garment To Diagnose Mental Illness
NEWSPost India, India

Wednesday 13th of June 2014 Scientists in the US claim to have developed a computerized garment that they say can help doctors diagnose mental illnesses like mania, depression and schizophrenia.

The high-tech garment is packed with sensors that monitor the heart, breathing rate, blood pressure, skin temperature, body movements and posture, reported online edition of the Daily Mail. Read more about Computerized Garment To Diagnose Mental Illness …

Pakistan Daily, Pakistan
Pakistani industrialists are experiencing hardships in handling the plants imported from Korea for textile units in Pakistan due to software installed therein in Korean language.
Read more about Korea to open textile research centre in Karachi Pakistan …

Antara, Indonesia
Jakarta (ANTARA News) – The Indonesian Textile Industries Association (API) is urging the government to issue a policy to protect domestic textile and textile product industries against illegally imported goods currently flooding the home markets, a spokesman said.
Read more about Textile makers demand govt protection against illegal imports …

INDIAN GARMENT EXPORTS TOUCHES US $ 8200 MILLION – SHANKERSINH VAGHELA
Press Information Bureau (press release), India

India has achieved a new milestone of US$ 8200 million in garment exports during the year 2005-06 with a growth of 32% as compared to the previous year. Speaking at the inauguration of Apparel House Auditorium of Apparel Export Promotion Council (AEPC) at Gurgaon today, the Minister for Textiles, Shri Shankersinh Vaghela said that Apparel Export Promotion Council is gearing up for a comparative competitive environment in the industry.

He urged the exporters to enhance capacities so that more and more employment could be generated. He also informed that more outlay for Integrated Textile Parks have been provided with a total investment of Rs.750 crore. This scheme would provide employment to 20,000 people. Read more about INDIAN GARMENT EXPORTS TOUCHES US $ 8200 MILLION – SHANKERSINH VAGHELA …

Garment district
The Phoenix, MA

Last night at the Paradise, I sat in a metal folding chair along with about 75 other quiet, bookish types: middle-aged dads in golf shirts with their wives, college kids with trucker caps pulled over their eyes, a patch of hipsters, some hippies, and a gaggle of girls in American Eagle tanks all hunched low in their seats, blurry grins on their faces. A fashion show it was not.

Hem are one of those freak bands who have benefitted from resounding critical acclaim without ever courting commercial success. They’ve been praised by big shots from the New York Times, and NPR’s All Songs Considered has pimped Hem’s traditionalist Americana to a worldly listenership for years now. Buzz, yes. Sales, no. Read more about Garment district …

Garment industry eyes WTO with awards
09:19′ 13/06/2014 (GMT+7)
VietNamNet Bridge, Vietnam

VietNamNet – The Vietnam Textile and Apparel Association (Vitas) and the Saigon Times have announced ‘the most outstanding textile and garment companies in 2014’.

This is the third time the best textile and garment companies have honoured and according to the organising board, this year’s awards will play an important role in Vietnam’s textile and garment industry development, as 2014 will be the last year before Vietnam officially joins the WTO. Read more about Garment industry eyes WTO with awards …

Gov’t ends support for textile and garment industry
06/13/2014 — 15:56(GMT+7)
Viet Nam News Agency, Vietnam

Ha Noi (VNA) – The Prime Minister has decided to end support for the textile and garment industry to ensure equality in competition, and meet the requirements of international economic integration in new situation, particularly Viet Nam’s accession to the World Trade Organisation.

Decision 126/2014/QD-TTg issued on May 30 invalidates Decision 55/2001/QD-TTg dated April 23, 2003 which ratified the industry’s development strategy and several measures to support the strategy’s implementation. Read more about Gov't ends support for textile and garment industry …