Textiles

9 Dec 2012

As with their choice of white cotton, most clothing manufacturers prefer synthetic dyes because they are cheaper and easier to use.

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Organic cotton: expensive but a saviour for sensitve skin

9 Dec 2012

Like many first-time parents, Cherie Choi Suet-ying was excitedly stocking up on fancy baby gear when she was expecting two years ago. Choi and her husband soon realised, however, that much of it...

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Mexico files WTO complaint against China over textiles

16 Oct 2012

Mexico has accused China of breaking World Trade Organisation rules by giving tax breaks and other favourable deals to its own clothing and textile businesses, the global trade body said on Monday...

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Huafeng in HK$280m capacity growth bid

27 Jun 2007

Hong Kong-listed Huafeng Textile International, which is seeking a listing in South Korea, plans to invest HK$280 million to expand its fabric processing and yarn-spinning capacity as well as to...

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Linen Online

2 Jun 2006

Linen Online

Westin Store (www.westin-hotelsathome.com)

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going back to school well worth the effort

6 Nov 2004

Does a trip back to the classroom really pay off? Just ask Louisa Lo Wai-sze, who graduated from Polytechnic University with a BSc in Textiles in 2000. After graduation, she worked as a product...

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Opinion

Placating graduates a work in progress

Updated 5:24AM

George Chen

For HSBC, the first love is apparently not the deepest

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China spins a profitable yarn

Yangtzekiang Garment Manufacturing is investing hundreds of millions of dollars to ramp up yarn production in China, targeting the European market to hedge against possible new US import quotas...

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Upmarket rag trade spins a hub around a tax break

No longer Asia's export sweatshop, Hong Kong is still a textile hub in the region.

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Industry rolls out extra yardage for quality testing

An increasing number of textile manufacturers are submitting fabrics for display and testing at Interstoff Asia's Pavilion for Functional Fabrics. The pavilion returns for the third time in the...

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Art Textile aims to raise $109m in flotation

Knitted-fabric maker Art Textile Technology International hopes to take advantage of bullish investor sentiment towards mainland industrial companies as it prepares for an initial public offering...

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WHAT THE BROKER SAID

About a year ago Credit Suisse First Boston (CSFB) reported that the outlook for Hong Kong-based Fountain Set, which specialises in knitting, fabric printing and the sale of clothes, was promising...

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LET OFFICERS DYE THEIR HAIR

It has been so refreshing to find many young Hong Kong people dyeing their hair reddish brown and even blond, that your article (South China Morning Post, January 24) about the female police...

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