From export icon to struggle: Vietnam’s Legamex halts outsourcing operations amid financial woes
Economy 09:11 22/05/2025Once a symbol of Vietnam’s state-owned-to-private sector transformation, the Leather Footwear and Garment Making Exporting Corporation (Legamex) has announced it will suspend outsourcing operations after years of mounting difficulties and financial losses.
Vietnamese textile firms post strong Q1 gains despite global headwinds
Economy 08:56 10/05/2025Vietnam’s textile and garment businesses reported robust first-quarter earnings in 2025, defying global economic uncertainty and buoyed by shifting trade patterns as Chinese goods face stricter U.S. tariffs.
Walmart calls, but India's garment worker woes blunt tariff edge
World 18:45 09/05/2025In a garment hub in south India, R.K. Sivasubramaniam is fielding requests from Walmart and Costco who want to sidestep higher U.S. tariffs faced by rival Asian suppliers, Bangladesh and China. But rows of idle sewing lines at his factory lay bare his biggest challenge.
Ho Chi Minh City garment firm shifts to real estate amid ailing core business
Economy 19:10 15/03/2024The company has temporarily suspended garment production since May 2023 due to no orders
Vietnam beats Bangladesh as world’s second-biggest clothing exporter: WTO
Economy 18:47 04/08/2021The Southeast Asian nation sold US$29 billion worth of apparel merchandise to the global market in 2020
Young Vietnamese man dreams big of environmentally conscious community
Vietnam News 11:00 27/05/2021Hoang Quy Binh created garment brand Re.socks to give plastic a new life
'Harsh' tactics used to keep wages low for Vietnamese garment workers
Economy 15:12 12/04/2019Vietnam is home to over 6,000 garment and textile factories that employ about 3 million people
Vietnam garment exports surge on U.S.-China trade war
Economy 09:05 03/11/2018Vietnam garment exports to the United States rose 12 percent in the January-October period to $10.5 billion
Germany introduces Partnership for Sustainable Textiles in Vietnam
Economy 13:36 26/11/2015Germany has introduced its Partnership for Sustainable Textiles initiative, launched in 2014, at the joint booth of the German Embassy and the Friedrich-Ebert Institute in an international exhibition of machinery and materials for the garment industry in Hanoi
Vietnam to raise fabric production capacity to meet trade deal requirements
Economy 18:14 28/10/2015Vietnamese garment exporters need to use locally made cotton, or cotton produced by other member countries of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) free trade agreement, to be entitled to tax cuts when shipping products inside the TPP zone
Red tape deprives Vietnamese businesses of $2bn in US military contracts
Economy 17:09 25/06/2015Plans were ruined when samples sent from the U.S. for US$2 billion worth of contracts to make clothing, flags, and shoes for the U.S. military were stuck at customs for a month
India eyes $300mn garment-textile industrial park near Ho Chi Minh City
Economy 12:31 26/04/2015India will take the initiative of the Trans-Pacific Partnership deal, which will offer a boost to the Vietnamese garment and textile industry
