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US, European groups divided on how to improve Bangladesh factories

16 May 2013

A trans-Atlantic divide between European and US retailers over how best to respond to fatal disasters in Bangladesh textile factories split wide open on Wednesday, with US retailers claiming their...

10:18AM

European, US retailers split on Bangladesh reform plan

14 May 2013

Major US retailers, including Gap, declined to endorse an accord on Bangladesh building and fire safety backed by Europe’s two biggest fashion chains, a trans-Atlantic divide that may dilute...

5:06PM

Retailers put savings above safety

29 Apr 2013

The factory collapse in Bangladesh that killed over 300 people last week is a stark reminder of the risks in the global retail industry’s search for cheap production.

10:04AM

Banana Republic 'set to launch in China'

15 Aug 2012

Popular American mid-tier fashion label Banana Republic is set to open its first store in China as early as next year to catch up with the latest wave of expansion by global retailers in the world...

9:07AM

Gap to open 20 new stores in China

13 Aug 2012

Gap, the iconic American fashion brand, is set to expand by almost one new store a week in Hong Kong and on the mainland over the next six months - despite rapid rent rises that have forced some...

9:24PM

New take on the generation gap

26 May 2012

Most final-year university undergraduates across the mainland are anxiously sending out their CVs, going to job fairs and using social connections (their own or their parents') to try to find jobs...

3:48PM

Opinion

Workers pay the price for our bargains

5:20AM

Howard Winn

Barry Cheung makes waves in Moscow

3:47AM

Musts for fashionistas

New transnational brands in the city

FOREVER 21

Location: Capitol Centre, Causeway Bay

8:52AM

Filling the Gap

3:32AM

Big Gap brings out the stars for an evening of shopping, champagne-sipping and snapping

The Gap store opening last week boasted a guest entrance queue longer than the lines for Disneyland rides at weekends.

3:12AM

Stewards' decision muddies the picture

Since protests became flavour of the month, the stewards have at last provided us with some grist for the mill.

1:52PM

Should gap years be compulsory?

Anthea Wong, 17, Hong Kong International School

5:48AM

Helping out

The chief executive unveiled a HK$11 billion package to ease the plight of poorer citizens hit by inflation. Do you back this initiative, or do you agree with critics who say it is a stop-gap...

3:43AM