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CAMBODIA: Garment workers' strike garners conflicting reports
2014-04-24 11:36:02| Daily apparel & textile news and comment - from just-style.com
Conflicting reports are emerging of the support given to a five-day stay-at-home protest by Cambodia's garment workers trying to put pressure on their bosses to increase wages.
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Garment firms set sights on Vietnam amid TPP talks
2014-04-22 19:36:15| Daily apparel & textile news and comment - from just-style.com
Progress on the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) continues to falter, with the latest talks coming to an end last week in Japan amid "considerable differences." Yet many garment makers continue to ramp up their investments in Vietnam - one of the negotiating countries - despite ongoing uncertainties over the rules of origin issue.
VIETNAM: Textile and garment exports surge 21.9% in Q1
2014-04-22 17:36:10| Daily apparel & textile news and comment - from just-style.com
Vietnam's textile and clothing exports jumped 21.9% year-on-year in the first quarter of 2014 to reach $4.53bn, according to the country's General Statistics Office.
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CAMBODIA: Wage strike by garment workers falls flat
2014-04-22 17:11:00| Daily apparel & textile news and comment - from just-style.com
A planned strike by thousands of garment workers in Cambodia appears to have fizzled out after most returned to work days before the end of a proposed seven-day stay-at-home stoppage.
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Hong Kong garment manufacturers eye Myanmar outsourcing
2014-04-15 19:25:00| Daily apparel & textile news and comment - from just-style.com
As China's garment manufacturing industry continues to lose its competitive edge as a low-cost clothing supplier through worker wage rises and increasing regulation, more companies are looking to alternative sourcing destinations. As a result, new frontiers like Myanmar are being assessed.
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