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World leaders to don pineapple shirts in Philippines

Star Trek suits are out and pineapple shirts are in as the Philippines seeks to keep the world's most powerful leaders off the list of global summit fashion train wrecks. Boldly ignoring the ridicule levelled at past costumes, the Philippines is continuing the spotty tradition of dressing the heads of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC)...

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Philippine garment industry confident about its future

According to the Phillipines’ department of trade and industry (DTI), the country’s fashion and garment industry is “back on its feet”. “It is getting back on where it was in the early days of 2000”, confirmed Ponciano C. Manalo, Jr., undersecretary of the DTI’s trade and investments promotion, at the inauguration of the Sikat Pinoy National...