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DHAKA, BANGLADESH - AUGUST 29: Women manufacturing clothes. Today, Bangladesh is one of the world's ... largest garment exporters, with the RMG sector accounting for 84 percent of Bangladesh's exports. (Photo credit should read Mustasinur Rahman Alvi/Eyepix Group/Future Publishing via Getty Images)Future Publishing via Getty Images The haunting ...

#Pakistan News Fast News Massive factory fire caused the garment factory in the southern Pakistan port city of Karachi to collapse, pinning the firefighters who had almost extinguished the blaze when the accident happened. FILE - Deadly factory fires are a common incident in Pakistan, where safety rules are ...

The world’s second-largest garment exporter is experiencing a slowdown that will threaten the nation’s economic recovery.Bangladesh’s garment industry, the world’s No. 2 exporter after China, is facing a double whammy from slowing global demand and an energy crisis at home that’s threatening to thwart the nation’s pandemic recovery. Plummy ...

Dhaka , July 9 (ANI): US ban on Chinese products has greatly impacted Bangladesh's ready-made garment industry as it is largely dependent on the Chinese province for raw materials, local media reported. Bangladesh's ready-made garment manufacturers and exporters believed that the US embargo on Chinese goods would lead to ...

 Sacked from his job at a Pakistani garment factory in the early days of the pandemic, Abdul Wasid was rehired three months later - for lower pay and longer hours. He now has to borrow money to make ends meet.Wasid's experience reflects a rollback on labor rights in the ...

#Pakistan News Garment makers from Asia, the Middle East and North Africa have banded together to demand better contract terms from global clothing retailers, according to a draft document seen by Reuters. The suppliers in a total of nine countries, including Turkey, hope their united front will prevent retailers ...

The COVID-19 pandemic brought the extreme vulnerability of garment workers to the fore, as apparel brands responded to the economic crisis triggered by this unprecedented public health emergency by cutting orders and refusing to pay for those already in production. The result has been mass job losses. An estimated ...

GENEVA — The COVID-19 pandemic has triggered government lockdowns, collapsed consumer demand, and disrupted imports of raw materials, battering the Asia Pacific garment industry especially hard, according to a new report released on Wednesday by the International Labour Organization (ILO). The UN labor agency highlighted that in the first ...

The UN labour agency highlighted that in the first half of 2020, Asian imports had dropped by up to 70 per cent. Moreover, as of September, almost half of all garment supply chain jobs, were dependent on consumers living in countries where lockdown conditions were being most tightly imposed, ...

The coronavirus pandemic has slammed the apparel industry, leaving many of the 65 million Asian garment factory workers struggling as factories close or cut back on wages, and the International Labour Organisation is urging the industry to do more to protect them. The ILO issued ...