What to Know About Trump’s Clean Water Executive Order
President Donald Trump on Tuesday issued an executive order targeting a rule expanding federal oversight of the country’s waterways, the latest in a string of actions targeting…
Climate Change Put World Cup Workers at Risk
This story was supported by the Pulitzer Center. When the U.N.’s International Organization for Migration predicts that as many as a billion people will be displaced by…
Asia-Pacific region drives tax-free purchases in department stores in 2018
Department stores in the APAC zone saw a 47 percent increase in tax-free shopping sales over the past five years, according to figures from the tax rebate…
Bangalore- more than 10,000 textile workers take to the streets
The most extensive damages were recorded in Bangalore, where over 10,000 workers from five local apparel factories blocked one of the main access routes to the city….
Amsterdam ‘fashion library’ takes aim at clothes waste
Billed as one of the world’s only physical centres for renting used and new clothing, the “big shared wardrobe” in the Dutch capital is a response to…
Google hit with 600,000 euro Belgian privacy fine
The 600,000 euro penalty is the largest ever imposed by APD, it said on Tuesday, and more than 10 times bigger than the authority’s previous record penalty.Google…
Fashion brands in The Hague’s dock over factory safety in Bangladesh
The Bangladesh Accord was signed in 2013 after the Rana Plaza disaster, as an independent, legally-binding agreement between global brands and trade unions to establish a fire…
Global consumers say affordability will be key for shopping post-Covid
It also means they’ll prioritise affordability (32%) and health (25%), over the planet (17%), society (14%) and experience (12%) in the future.That said, given that the survey…
India to renew labour law overhaul drive to boost jobs
Modi made a shake-up of India’s labour market a part of his reform agenda after coming into office in 2014, but opposition from unions and a bruising…
India’s NSE warned Future Retail of action over disclosures on Amazon dispute – emails
Future Retail – one of country’s top retailers – has been locked in a bitter dispute with Amazon over its $3.4 billion retail assets deal with Reliance…