Protests by garment workers in Bangladesh have persisted for five days due to demands for higher wages. Authorities have deployed additiona...

Bangladesh's garment factories reopened on Monday after widespread closures and production disruptions a day earlier, but manufacturers rem...

In the face of an acute natural gas scarcity, Bangladesh is witnessing the shutdown of key fertiliser plants, impacting hundreds of factori...

The Bangladeshi garment manufacturers took the decision to close 150 factories "indefinitely" on Saturday. This move comes in the wake of b...

"We are trying to restore the system," Hasan said, adding that utilities were currently producing around 4,500 megawatts (MW)of power, comp...

“People are scared to buy from India and uncertain if we can deliver the orders,” said Sharad Kumar Saraf, president of the Federation of I...

Speaking in the Legislative Assembly, he said, the government will take all the necessary steps for the safety and welfare of women employe...

Dharavi, believed to be Asia's largest slum, has been hailed as a success story in the battle against the coronavirus pandemic, bringing ca...

Many of the highly employment-intensive clothing units in and around the city are either shutting down their operations or laying off emplo...

"If I have a job and an income, I can pay for medical treatment for my mother," Zarchi Lwin, 29, told Reuters from the home she shares with...

“About 15-20% of the over 8,000 apparel exporters in the country have resumed operation with 25-30% of their workforce,” said Narendra Goen...

Chinese authorities have taken extraordinary measures to prevent any disturbance -- including pollution -- from marring the week-long, twic...

The leather units make jackets, bags, wallets and belts. Many take bulk orders for corporate gifts and even do back-room work for designer ...

Supplies from the NCR region to global fashion brands may be hit as textile dyers and printers have called for an indefinite shutdown.

Bangladesh has sought govt's intervention to secure the outstanding payments for 22 small Bangladeshi garment exporters from Delhi-based Li...

As hundreds of the US and European garment stores have put the shutters down and several of them have gone bankrupt, many Indian exporters ...

Scores of South Korean-owned factories are closing surreptitiously in eastern China as their owners flee rising costs, leaving behind embit...