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...have built up a critical mass of Thai consumers with a taste for fashion and money to spend, creating demand for domestic designs that suit Thailand's climate and social scene without breaking the bank. Meanwhile, Thailand's Ministry of Industry?in an effort to shift the country's garment industry, which generated $3.25 billion in exports last year, higher up the value chain?has been nurturing the local designers, spending $45 million since 2003 to promote Bangkok as a fashion hub, sponsoring fashion shows, trade fairs and magazines, and helping to establish the Bangkok International Fashion Academy at Chulalongkorn...
...Though Li has rarely returned to her homeland since her departure a decade ago, the best stories in this volume, written in her flawlessly pure and limpid prose, fully capture China's wrenching social changes. In "Extra," Granny Lin finds she has been "honorably retired" from her state-owned garment factory?which means the plant has gone bankrupt and Lin won't be getting her pension. She's lucky enough to find a new job as a maid at one of the posh new private schools sprouting outside Beijing, but it's not long before Lin discovers...
...news article, "Historic Garment District Saved," mischaracterized the terms of a real estate deal between a Kendall Square vintage-clothing store, the Garment District, and a local affordable housing and social services provider, CASCAP...
...article said that the deal was "extremely profitable" for the Garment District's president, Christopher Cassell, and real estate developer Tani Halperin...
While Halperin said in a phone interview last week that "there is no doubt that this is a profitable deal" for the Garment District, upon further investigation by The Crimson, the Feb. 1 article's unambiguous assertion that the deal was "extremely profitable" for Cassell cannot be verified...