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Fourteen fashion shows and eight special topic seminars are among the highlights of Hong Kong Fashion Week for Fall/Winter 2009 and World Boutique, Hong Kong 2009.

China's office workers are tightening their belts, cutting spending on everything from clothes to fast food, despite government efforts to boost consumption to stave off the worst effects of a global recession.

UTEXRWA S.A. is a vertically integrated textile company, the only one of its kind in Rwanda. UTEXRWA started its operation in the 1985 and currently employs about 1000 people in which over 54 percent are women. It has a spinning, weaving, fabric processing and an apparel manufacturing facility in Kigali.

THE Philippines is the world's leading producer of natural fiber-except cotton, flax (from which linen is made) ramie, silk and wool-for apparel, paper currency, luxury car upholstery and other uses.

British supermarket claims that their cut-price clothing is made under ethical standards have been called into question by an investigation revealing serious and widespread abuses in factories that make the bargain items.

The recession bug is spread through the economies of the world, and affected almost all the industries. However, Atlantic Ltd, the distributor of underwear is doing quite well.

Starting with summer 2009, followers of local design will be able to get the earliest first fix on the local fashion front months ahead of the actual season as Sanlam SA Fashion Week (SSAFW) goes live with its new timeline that will launch the summer 09/10 collections of top local designers in April.

Within only one year after launch in January 2008, many leading sports and fashion brands integrated Thermo 掳Cool into their collections and already show the first commercial ranges.

ESPRIT Holdings Ltd, the biggest clothing retailer listed in Hong Kong, said first-half profit fell for the first time in more than a decade because of the recession in Europe, where it makes four-fifths of its sales.

Basic textile mills, flooded with export orders due to the global textile industry realignment, have been unable to cash in on the opportunity as gas load-shedding continues in Punjab and NWFP despite a significant increase in temperature.