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VietNamNet Bridge – An export growth of 16.5 per cent this year will be a major part of HCM City’s plans to fight and prevent economic recession, said Nguyen Thi Hong, deputy Chairwoman of the city’s People’s Committee.
The city would focus on ways to achieve this target, she said at a meeting earlier this week with various departments, sectors and trade associations.
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Carpet manufacturers and dealers in Srinagar engaged in handicraft exports have demanded relief package from state government in order to beat recession.
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Viet Nam News
HUE — The Viet Nam Craft Village Fair 2009 and the Viet Nam Handicraft Contest will be held at Thuong Bac Park, the former imperial city of Hue, from June 10 to 14.
Voice of the Armed Forces and People
The Vietnam Craft Village Festival 2009 will be opened on June 10th and closed on June 14th, in Thuong Bac park, Hue city, according to the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development.
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The Central Asian Handicraft Fair representing Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan and Turkmenistan will take place on April 17-18, 2009 in Bishkek, in front of the American University of Central Asia.
Kantipur Online
Kantipur Report
SUNSARI, April 13 - The export of handicrafts to third countries has been on an increasing trend with goods worth Rs. 100 million exported through the eastern border last year.
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Taiwan has a rich tradition of handicrafts going back by a few centuries, but the growth is impeded due to a lack of marketing knowhow. But all that is set to change now, with the National Taiwan Craft Research Institute (NTCRI) to step up efforts to help the craftsmen.
Minneapolis Star Tribune
Woodworker Virgil Leih of Edina turned a lifelong passion into an art form like no other.
By JOY PETERSEN , Star Tribune
Virgil Leih visits a tree graveyard each week to find something that he might be able to work. His prize isn’t the 2,000-pound stump he brings back to his Bloomington shop. Instead, it’s the piece of art he creates from within.
Asheville Citizen-Times
ASHEVILLE – A new study concludes the craft industry pumps more than $206 million each year into the Western North Carolina economy, providing a clean and sustainable source of jobs in the mountains
The results were released Friday at the headquarters of HandMade in America, a group working to promote the region as a national center for craft.
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The Oregonian - OregonLive.com
by Inara Verzemnieks, The Oregonian
Faythe Levine, 31, grew up in the suburbs of Seattle and fell into the city’s vibrant all-ages music scene of the early ’90s, which was, as she puts it, “my gateway drug into DIY — I was around people making their own records, silk-screening their own T-shirts, fixing their own clothes.”