| Sunday, March 14, 2010 The profitability of Bangladesh's readymade garments (RMG) is now hit hard by the persistent pressure from international buyers to lower the item's price, say industry insiders. 
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| Sunday, March 14, 2010 The garment factories in Ashulia, around 50, which remained closed on Friday following a series of clashes between police and garment workers, resumed production yesterday amid deployment of police.
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| Wednesday, March 10, 2010 Apparel export satisfactory but fear remains over energy crisis
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| Wednesday, March 10, 2010 Textile and Jute Minister Abdul Latif Siddiqui said yesterday there is a huge potential for the country's readymade garments and textile sectors as China is shifting focus to hi-tech from RMG and textile.
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| Tuesday, December 22, 2009 The Bangladesh government will form wage commission for regular industrial workers of all sectors within 'the shortest possible time' and amend the existing labour law, said Labour and Employment Minister Khandker Mosharraf Hossain yesterday.
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| Sunday, December 13, 2009 The dollar jumped to a two-month high against the euro Friday as positive US economic data increased speculation on a rate hike by the US Federal Reserve.
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| Sunday, December 13, 2009 A Bangladesh delegation left Dhaka for London on Sunday to take part in a road show on December 15-16, aiming to attract up to $5 billion investment in the country, especially for the energy and power sector.
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| Monday, December 7, 2009 The commerce ministry in a recent letter has sought clarafications from Delhi for imposing higher hidden taxes on export of eight million pieces of readymade garment products to India under duty-free facility, a ministry official said.
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| Sunday, December 6, 2009 The three-day 2nd Knit+Tex Bangladesh 2009 exposition will begin on December 10 (Thursday) at the Bangabandhu International Conference Centre in the city.
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| Sunday, December 6, 2009 BKMEA president Fazlul Haque has said gas crisis is seriously affecting production in the knitwear industry.
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| Sunday, December 6, 2009 Dubai remains a regional hub for finance and tourism but must build up those sectors to replace the construction industry, as the emirate's economic growth grinds to a halt amid the global economic crisis, analysts said.
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| Tuesday, November 24, 2009 Taiwan plans to restrict Chinese stock investment in strategic sectors, as it seeks to keep control of its economy amid rapidly growing ties with the mainland, local media said Monday.
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| Tuesday, November 10, 2009 The working committee of national taskforce on recession on Tuesday recommended the government for giving 5 percent cash incentive to the ready-made garment exporters and its backward integration only for new export destinations to revive the export growth.
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| Tuesday, November 10, 2009 German company Cancun Food Produces Limited is going to establish a high tech food processing industry in the Adamjee Export Processing Zone.
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| Sunday, November 8, 2009 As feared by some quarters, the impact of global recession on Bangladeshi garment industry may not linger for long as the local manufacturers are now presenting diversified products resulting in fresh orders in recent weeks.
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| Sunday, November 8, 2009 A twenty-five member business delegation of Hong Kong recently visited Viyellatex Group, a garment manufacturing company of the country.
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| Sunday, November 8, 2009 Integration and coordination between productivity and compliance are needed to have a sustainable growth in the country's prime forex earning RMG sector, speakers told a seminar in Dhaka yesterday.
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| Sunday, November 8, 2009 Foreign buyers see Bangladesh as a lucrative destination for global apparel outsourcing as the country manufactures quality items at a cheap cost.
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| Thursday, November 5, 2009 Fresh unrest is again simmering in the readymade garments (RMG) sector. Three precious lives were lost and over a hundred wounded in the recent deadly violence in Tongi. An apparently disturbed Prime Minister, Sheikh Hasina, categorically said that the government would not tolerate chaotic situation any more in the garment sector. The garment workers must get all types of facilities as they, with their low paid salaries, find it difficult to make both ends meet, she said.
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| Thursday, November 5, 2009 The 20th Bangladesh Apparel and Textile Exposition will begin in the capital on Thursday presenting more value added local garments to the international importers.
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| Thursday, November 5, 2009 Ocean Containers Limited, a fully-owned subsidiary of Summit Alliance Port Ltd, has got approval from the Chittagong Stock Exchange to be listed directly with the bourse.
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| Monday, November 2, 2009 Owners closed at least eight garment factories in Dhaka city and its adjacent areas in last three moths allegedly without maintaining the factory laws.
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| Monday, November 2, 2009 The government, factory owners and workers at a meeting Sunday decided in principle to introduce trade unionism in the readymade garment sector to avert rerun of labour unrest.
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| Monday, November 2, 2009 Maersk Bangladesh and APL Bangladesh, two major shipping lines, are facing a fresh problem to continue operating, as the customs authority has found that the companies did not submit information relating to their purchased shares from the local partners.
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