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Apparel & Garment Quality Control Testing | Textile Testing Labs

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QIMA offers tailored apparel and garment quality control for some of the world's largest brands and retailers. Find out how we can help you improve your supply chain.

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Partner with Intertek for your textile testing needs to assure compliance with changing governmental safety regulations and to meet increasing consumer demand for high-quality textiles and apparel, while minimizing risk and protecting the interests of brands, retailers, suppliers and consumers.

Intertek delivers Total Quality Assurance solutions for all your softlines products, including textiles like medical textiles and upholstery, apparel like activewear and children's apparel, and soft home furnishings. Our comprehensive services enable you to ensure quality and safety with precision. We offer the following services for textiles:

Fiber Identification - Most countries importing apparel and soft home furnishing products require fiber identification labels indicating the fiber type and percentage of fiber components. Some countries even use fiber composition to classify quota categories.

Eco Textile Testing - The trend of green consumerism has extended to textile and apparel products. Major European and U.S. textile product buyers have responded to this public awareness by viewing their textile products from an ecological standpoint, and are establishing relevant requirements. Intertek provides a comprehensive spectrum of Eco-Testing services targeting environmental protection and consumer health and safety. Eco-Testing includes:

Feather and Down Testing - Intertek offers special feather and down testing for quantitative analysis, filling power, thermal properties, migration, and penetration resistance.

Care Label Instructions - Many countries have mandatory or voluntary standards for care label instructions applicable to textile and apparel. Intertek conducts the following tests to determine the most appropriate consumer care conditions for the tested products:

Colorfastness to washing, bleaching, and dry cleaning

Dimensional stability, appearance retention, and ironing

Performance Testing - Intertek offers a variety of tests meeting specific performance standards related to consumer end use of textile products, including:

Dimensional stability to washing and dry cleaning

Colorfastness to light, crocking (rubbing), washing, bleaching

Physical tests - Strength, abrasion, pilling resistance

Chemical Tests - finish analysis and pH

UV protection performance

Flammability Testing - It is critical that materials used in apparel are in compliance with flammability regulations. In particular, adult apparel and children's sleepwear have specific requirements that must be acceptable before importing or selling a product. Regulations for upholstery, rugs and carpets should also be followed.

Thermal and Water Vapor Resistance Testing - Thermal resistance testing ensures reduction of heat transfer in garments, while water vapor resistance testing indicates sweat-friendly clothing that allows water vapors to pass through fabric and evaporate quickly for comfort. These tests can be performed on fabrics, films, coatings, foams and leather, including multilayer assemblies, for use in clothing, quilts, sleeping bags, upholstery, and similar products.

In addition to the textile testing solutions stated above, Intertek also offers a full suite of services to identify chemicals found in your products including toxicity assessments, chemical certification and quality assurance solutions.

Intertek is also registered and approved by General Organization for Export and Import Control (GOIEC) to issue the Certificate of Inspection for exports of textiles, garments, carpets, footwear and bags, to ensure your products comply with new import regulations in Egypt.

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Intertek delivers Total Quality Assurance solutions for all your softlines products, including textiles like medical textiles and upholstery, apparel like activewear and children's apparel, and soft home furnishings. Our comprehensive services enable you to ensure quality and safety with precision.

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Vietnam has a tropical monsoon climate, with humidity averaging 84 percent throughout the year. However, because of differences in latitude and the marked variety of topographical relief, the climate tends to vary considerably from place to place. During the winter or dry season, extending roughly from November to April, the monsoon winds usually blow from the northeast along the China coast and across the Gulf of Tonkin, picking up considerable moisture; consequently the winter season in most parts of the country is dry only by comparison with the rainy or summer season. During the southwesterly summer monsoon, occurring from May to October, the heated air of the Gobi Desert rises, far to the north, inducing moist air to flow inland from the sea and deposit heavy rainfall.

Annual rainfall is substantial in all regions and torrential in some, ranging from 120 centimeters to 300 centimeters. Nearly 90 percent of the precipitation occurs during the summer. The average annual temperature is generally higher in the plains than in the mountains and plateaus. Temperatures range from a low of 5°C in December and January, the coolest months, to more than 37°C in April, the hottest month. Seasonal divisions are more clearly marked in the northern half than in the southern half of the country, where, except in some of the highlands, seasonal temperatures vary only a few degrees, usually in the 21°C-28°C range.

Principal Rivers

A relatively dense network of rivers traverses Vietnam. The principal rivers are as follows: in the north, the Red and Thai Binh; in the center, the Ca, Ma, Han, Thach Han, and Thu Bon; and in the south, the Mekong and Dong Nai.

Climate

Vietnam's climate is tropical and monsoonal; humidity averages 84 percent throughout the year. Annual rainfall ranges from 1,200 to 3,000 millimeters, and annual temperatures vary between 5°C and 37°C.

Natural Resources

Vietnam's main natural resources consist of coal, copper, crude oil, gold, iron, manganese, silver, and zinc.

Land Use

In 2003 Vietnam's land use was distributed as follows: 21 percent, arable; 28 percent, forest and woodland; and 51 percent, other.

Environmental Factors

The National Environmental Agency, a branch of the Ministry of Science, Technology, and Environment, is responsible for environmental protection. At the provincial level, the Departments of Science, Technology, and the Environment bear responsibility. Non-governmental organizations, particularly the Institute of Ecological Economics, also play a role. Urbanization, industrialization, and intensive farming are having a negative impact on Vietnam's environment. These factors have led to air pollution, water pollution, and noise pollution, particularly in urban and industrial centers like Ho Chi Minh City and Hanoi. The most serious problem is waste treatment. Land use pressures have led to significant environmental problems, including severe deforestation, soil erosion, sedimentation of rivers, flooding in the deltas, declining fish yields, and pollution of the coastal and marine environment. The use of Agent Orange by the U.S. military in the Second Indochina War (1954-75) has had a lingering effect on Vietnam in the form of persistent environmental contamination that has increased the incidence of various diseases and birth defects.

As a result of rapid economic development, population growth, and urbanization, Vietnam faces significant environmental challenges. In 2006, Vietnam's pollution "hot spots" included solid waste, water and air pollution, with water pollution and solid waste treatment being the biggest challenges for the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment (MONRE). According to MONRE, Vietnam's environmental situation is deteriorating due to a lack of Governmental resources to address these issues.

Pollution levels in surface water and ground water are another critical concern of the Government. According to new research by the Department of Natural Resources and Environment in Ho Chi Minh City, total organic carbon (TOC) content of groundwater in some places is 31-86mg/l. Biochemical oxygen demand (BOD) of some large rivers supplying water to municipal water treatment plants is higher than 5mg/l. Meanwhile, all drinking water treatment plants in Vietnam lack the ability to reduce BOD levels. In order to upgrade the current treatment process in Ho Chi Minh City alone, the Government must invest $133 million per year for the five years 2004-2009, which represents one percent of the city's GDP.

Drainage and sewage problems also represent a growing concern. Vietnam's rapid urbanization and industrialization over the last ten years have placed huge demands on its outdated sewage systems, much of which were constructed in the 19th century. Most drainage systems are for combined usage, mixing rainwater runoff with untreated domestic wastewater. At present, except for Ho Chi Minh City, Can Tho and Danang, which have projects underway to collect domestic wastewater for treatment, none of the cities or provinces within the country has a centralized wastewater treatment plant.

Except for solid waste from hospitals that is collected and burned in a controlled environment, most industrial waste is still disposed of together with domestic waste without proper treatment. Currently, there is no industrial waste management and control system in place in Vietnam. Contamination from pesticides and agricultural chemical runoff is growing at an alarming rate.

Climate Change

Vietnam's government is banking on agricultural reforms in its main rice producing region to meet the challenges posed by climate change and disrupted water flow on the Mekong River. The reforms aim to produce higher quality climate-adapted rice, and boost alternative crops to ensure sustainability in the Mekong Delta, home to 18 million of Vietnam's 94 million people. The region, which produces more than half of Vietnam's rice and feeds over 145 million people in Asia, covers 13 provinces in Vietnam's south where the river flows into the South China Sea.

Heightened concerns over the Delta's future followed an extreme drought in 2016 that resulted in sharply higher salinity levels intruding into the delta. Rice production fell 1.1 million tons according to the United Nation's Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). Climate change's impact is evident due to more extreme weather. Climate change, sea level rise in particular, but also increasing frequency of storms has implications for the Delta. One of the big concerns is the amount of salt water and the distance the salt water moves up various Mekong tributaries into the delta, which again threatens the viability of rice farming.

Key issues the Delta faces include rising salt and fresh water levels, higher temperatures, rising greenhouse gases and a higher population. The region also faces the prospect of lower rainfall, reduced numbers of farm laborers and reduced valuable land. Over the last 30 years, Vietnamese farmers have been adapting to changing environmental conditions by diversifying and modifying their production systems and water management. But recent and forecasted agro-hydrological changes threaten the viability of these farming and social systems and, subsequently, food security within Southeast Asia. The main constraints to farmers' ability to adapt to the new hydrological regime are availability of suitable cultivars, soil nutrient management options, insufficient knowledge of potential harm from acid sulphate soil inundation, and planning tools.

Australia's Center for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR) is assisting Vietnam to improve rice production inefficiencies. Vietnam's strategy is to raise farm incomes and boost rice quality by creating a distinctive Vietnamese rice brand. The International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) and the Vietnamese government aim to restructure the rice sector from three rice crops a year to two crops, but grow a higher value grain. That means growing other crops when faced by rising salinity that are more adapted to these kind of conditions. And then in areas where it's really not possible anymore to plant rice – where it is very salty – salinity will be very high in the future they can move to either aquaculture or other crops during the period.

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Vietnam is located in Southeast Asia, bordered by the Gulf of Tonkin and the South China Sea to the east, China to the north, Laos and Cambodia to the west, and the Gulf of Thailand to the south.

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More than four decades after choppers lifted the last U.S. troops back across the world, Vietnam's Da Nang Hi-Tech Park hums with activity. The park, one of several established as part of Vietnam's 2020 IT Master Plan, houses offices and factories for a growing number of international IT and software companies, hardware manufacturers, and infrastructure plants powering the central Vietnamese city at the heart of a tech boom.

Today's Vietnam-with a population of over 93.5 million and a median age of 30.3 years old-is defined by a growing population of young coders, engineers, entrepreneurs, and students driving economic growth and technological innovation. For them, the country's war-torn past is a history lesson, not a memory.

Vietnam barely had any IT companies 15 years ago, but now there are close to 14,000 IT businesses spanning hardware, software, and digital content. The Vietnamese government sees the tech sector as the linchpin of the country's economic growth, according to Mr. Long Lam, CEO of QuangTrung Software City (QTSC), Vietnam's largest software park. It has heavily invested in infrastructure and passed economic policies encouraging both domestic and international entrepreneurs to start businesses.

From Vietnam's northern capital of Hanoi to the coastal city of Da Nang to Ho Chi Minh City (HCMC, formerly Saigon) in the south, regional universities churn out hundreds of well-trained IT and software engineering graduates each year. Many are recruited right out of school by companies like Cisco, Fujitsu, HP,IBM, Intel, LG, Samsung, Sony, and Toshiba. More and more graduates also choose to seek venture capital (VC) funding to launch start-ups.

Mr. Hung Q. Nguyen, CEO, President, and co-founder of software testing company LogiGear, said these young IT professionals represent the first generation of Vietnam's middle class. "Young people in Vietnam are hungry," said Nguyen. "The market there is really hot and this generation now has enough money to buy a home and get an apartment. It's quite a tremendous change in the country."

Nguyen grew up in Vietnam but left to attend school in the U.S. He settled in Silicon Valley, later co-founding LogiGear in 1994. In the mid-2000s, when looking to outsource internationally, Nguyen chose to go home. LogiGear opened research and design facilities in HCMC and, over the next decade, expanded to over 500 employees in HCMC, moving a large chunk of its operations to a new Da Nang facility in 2014.

Along with many other Western-educated expats returning to Vietnam, Nguyen has become an ambassador of sorts of the country's business potential. Challenging the traditional view of Vietnam's sole use as a cost-effective outsourcing location, LogiGear was one of the first companies to launch employee training programs, guest lecture at universities, and collaborate with other companies to form The Vietnam IT Outsourcing Organization (VNITO), a community aiming to collectively shape the perception of Vietnam as a thriving hub for the entire spectrum of IT.

In Vietnam, IT is a blanket term encompassing any products and services related to computing and Internet technology, including software, hardware, enterprise, networking, and telecommunications.

In Da Nang in particular, Nguyen saw modern infrastructure and a wealth of capable engineers waiting for an opportunity. "Nothing is like Silicon Valley, with its elements on innovation, first-movers, and world-changing technology," said Nguyen. "But this country is very vibrant, very forward-looking. The workforce itself doesn't yet know quite what it's like to do business the way the West does but, from the perspective of a tech hub, Vietnam has a lot of potential."
Da Nang: The Central Metropolis

Da Nang is Vietnam's fourth-largest city, a tourist location known more for its beach resorts and fire-breathing Dragon Bridge than its tech sector. Yet, after heavy government investments in a new $60 million airport and a $93 million highway system ( according to Bloomberg), the city's infrastructure is far more suited for large-scale economic growth than the older, more crowded Hanoi and HCMC.

IBM agreed. In 2012, the company selected Da Nang as one of 33 cities worldwide to receive IBM's Smarter Cities Challenge grant, a $50 million, three-year program to revamp the city's infrastructure around economic development, sustainability, transportation, and urban planning. IBM's Da Nang initiatives, deployed in 2013, focus on optimizing water quality and public transportation through real-time, Big Data processing and predictive analytics. "Da Nang is emerging as a fast-growing and well-planned city, which I think put them in a perfect position to experience new economic development initiatives," said Mr. Tan Jee Toon, General Manager of IBM Vietnam.

IBM has had offices in Hanoi and HCMC since 1994 and opened its Da Nang office in 2012. The company is entrenched in Vietnam's banking and finance industries, of which Toon said 60 percent are customers. IBM has also led a governmental and private sector push toward cloud computing in the country. Toon said Da Nang is the Vietnamese city best-suited for international IT expansion whereas the atmosphere in Hanoi around government and state-owned enterprises is more conservative. HCMC, he said, is more commercially driven and dominated by small and mid-sized enterprises (SMBs).

Despite the company's optimism toward Da Nang, IBM's Smarter Cities initiative has faced bureaucratic hurdles. For example, though IBM's Intelligent Operations Center and its Intelligent Water Solution were deployed in 2013, the projects are still in their initial phase. The largest obstacle, Toon said, is funding. The city's government is seeking further loans and public-private partnership (PPP) investments to realize the vision of the initial Smarter Cities blueprint and complete the shift towards becoming an environmentally and economically sustainable city, according to Toon.

Beyond its infrastructure initiatives, IBM has hedged its bets in Da Nang and in Vietnam's future by tapping into the country's educational pipeline. Along with LogiGear and dozens of other companies operating in Da Nang, Hanoi or HCMC, IBM offers career training and internship programs as part of its partnerships with IT universities.

Vietnam's university system parallels its cities. The three largest IT universities in the country are the Da Nang University of Science and Technology, the Hanoi University of Science and Technology, and the Ho Chi Minh City University of Science and Technology. Each regional school graduates engineers that are recruited directly into the local workforce. "We provide the most engineers in IT for Central Vietnam," said Dr. Binh Nguyen, Director of the IT Department at Da Nang University of Science and Technology. "Last year we graduated 250 students and we now have 30 PhD students. Most students choose software engineering. All students do internships at companies for between two and five months, and last year 50 percent of the interns were recruited. "

As Dr. Nguyen explained, the entire curriculum and university experience are geared toward developing directly applicable workforce skills in students through programming courses, lectures on emerging technologies, and communication and language classes in English and Japanese. Each year, the university invites approximately 10 companies for a week of lectures, interviewing, and recruiting.

Vietnam's universities are competitive. The Da Nang University of Science and Technology's IT Department admits only 250 students a year-out of more than 2,000 applicants-chosen based upon the results of a national standardized competition. Dr. Nguyen said most of his students come from poor, hardworking, central Vietnamese families. "IT workers are an in-demand resource," said Dr. Nguyen. "Some of my students work for big companies. Some created small companies of around 10 or 20 employees. We are also developing a new incubator program next year for students in IT. We want them to develop the right skills. The problem in Vietnam is everyone wants to go to university."

But, once the newly graduated engineers are out in the working world, starting their own companies is surprisingly easy. In what LogiGear's Nguyen described as "a rather laissez-faire mentality" for a Communist government, new businesses in Vietnam are exempt from taxes for the first eight years. Vietnam is also now a member of the World Trade Organization (WTO), protecting the intellectual property (IP) rights of its companies. Last year, Da Nang University's Dr. Nguyen invited Finnish entrepreneurs to lecture his students on launching startups.
HCMC: The Southern Tech Hub

Dr. Nguyen is another expat and one of Da Nang University's first IT department graduates back in 1997. After earning his PhD in France, he returned to teach and, ultimately, became the Dean. "I came back because my family lives here," said Nguyen. "I find that Da Nang is a beautiful city. Da Nang is a new city. Capital of the center. It's less crowded and polluted than Hanoi and HCMC, and there are beautiful beaches. Most importantly, people can find jobs."

As fast as Da Nang's tech sector is growing, Vietnam's more vibrant start-up atmosphere is located 850 kilometers south in HCMC. The culture and community began taking shape in 2010 at hackathons and start-up boot camps organized, in part, by Dr. Vu Duong, the first director of the John Von Neumann (JVN) Institute located within Vietnam National University, HCMC.

Duong's self-described mission is to build Vietnam's next generation of entrepreneurs and technologists. Duong, who holds a Master's degree in Engineering and a PhD degree in Artificial Intelligence from France's École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussees, runs the JVN Institute's entrepreneurship program. In a building where the walls are used as blackboards for brainstorming sessions and where an academic environment centered around freedom of ideas is encouraged, Duong teaches a small group of postgraduate students each year about how to think up and create innovative technologies-and then build successful businesses around them.

Duong envisions the eager and capable younger generation as an example of Vietnam's start-up potential to a largely still-conservative business sector. "The tech community in Vietnam is developing a start-up culture and that's the truth," said Duong. "Today, the number of hackathon and start-up boot camps amounts to quite a few every month in the large cities of Vietnam. However, the Silicon Valley-like mentally is not yet there. They still prefer to not take too many risks. Only those who have been introduced to innovation and entrepreneurship are likely more adventurous to lead start-ups."

Many of Duong's colleagues guest lecture at the JVN Institute including an entrepreneur boot camp taught by Tom Kosnick, Stanford University's Fenwick and West Consulting Professor, and ex-Googler Thuc Vu, who will oversee a new Master's program in Innovation, Leadership, and Entrepreneurship next year.

JVN Institute's entrepreneurship graduates launch two or three new start-ups a year according to Duong. For example, language flash card company BlueUp VN was founded in 2011 and received funding from a major Vietnamese tech investor. Inbound Marketing Partners was founded in 2013 by two JVN students and provides online marketing and content automation services. Sentifi, co-founded by Duong's assistant, applies data analytics to finance. Others are developing Web services, games, and apps focused on ecommerce, social media, and more.

For the moment, HCMC's start-up culture is concentrated on the local market and apps that appeal to Vietnamese users to better their quality of life. Vietnam's young app developers and entrepreneurs are motivated by the desire to help their country realize its cultural, economic, and technological potential-the same reason Duong, Dr. Nguyen and LogiGear's Nguyen returned home in the first place.

"Vietnam is quickly becoming an investment and tech hub for local and international enterprises, and HCMC is at the heart of this transformation," said Jeff Diana, Chief People Officer (CPO) at enterprise software company Atlassian. "The industry is still fairly nascent here, but we are starting to see the market mature from either packaging software or outsourcing to a product environment. This is leading to an increase in start-ups focused on e-commerce and product development."

Atlassian expanded research and development (R&D) operations for itscommunication and collaboration software into Vietnam in 2013, which Diana said was motivated by the country's modified educational structure that is producing capable and talented coders. Atlassian's development center in HCMC began with a team focused on building features for Confluence, the company's team content collaboration platform. But, in the last two years, it has launched new teams that are focusing on Jira Service Deskand Atlassian's flagship Jira issue management software.

The company invested in a recruiting campaign called the " Gradlassian HackHouse" program aimed at local universities, plus a two-week boot camp and developer training for all new hires. Atlassian's Vietnam Careers page alone shows open positions spanning Android/iOS development, UI/UX design, .NET, Java, front-end development, product management, and more-to be filled almost entirely by local professionals according to Diana.

Vietnam's booming tech sector and economic growth over the past five years is set to culminate this October at VNITO, the country's inaugural Vietnam IT Conference. Organized by QuangTrung Software City and the Ho Chi Minh City Computer Association, VNITO is the Vietnam tech industry's chance to show itself off to the world.

From October 14-17, more than 150 multinational tech companies, over 200 Vietnamese IT and outsourcing companies, and 20 universities are expected to descend upon The Reverie Saigon hotel in HCMC. Keynotes will include speakers from Gartner, KPMG, HP, LogiGear, Microsoft, Samsung, and several ministers of the Vietnamese government. "I believe that, through VNITO, friends and international partners have the evidence to recognize Vietnam as an attractive, emerging destination for IT companies worldwide," said QuangTrung's Long, also the main organizer of VNITO.

VNITO's figures project the education system graduates 40,000 new graduates a year into the IT workforce and budding enterprise ecosystem. Long predicts, 2015 "is the year the start-up wave in Vietnam begins to rise."

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Vietnam's Tech Boom: A Look Inside Southeast Asia's Silicon Valley

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More than four decades after choppers lifted the last U.S. troops back across the world, Vietnam's Da Nang Hi-Tech Park hums with activity. The park, one of several established as part of Vietnam's 2020 IT Master Plan, houses offices and factories for a growing number of international IT and software companies, hardware manufacturers, and infrastructure plants powering the central Vietnamese city at the heart of a tech boom.

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Public Holidays in Vietnam are observed in accordance with the different religious and cultural holidays in the country. As per Article 115 of the Labour Code (2012), employees in Vietnam are entitled to a total of 10 paid holidays every year.

For foreign workers in Vietnam, they will receive an additional day off for their country's National Day. During public holidays in Vietnam, banks, offices, schools and other governmental institutions are close. Most Vietnamese head back to their hometowns during the holidays,

Below is a list of all public holidays in Vietnam.

Holidays in Vietnam

New Year's Day
The first day of the Gregorian Calendar (January 1) is a public holiday in Vietnam.

Tet Eve / Tet Holiday / Tet Nguyen Dan
Tết or most commonly known as the Vietnamese New Year. Tết is the most important celebration in Vietnam. It is also called the "Feast of the First Morning of the First Day" or Tết Nguyên Đán.

Vietnamese people start their celebrations by cooking food and cleaning the house. Some of the famous cuisines Vietnamese cook during Tết are bánh chưng, bánh dày, dried young bamboo soup (canh măng), giò, and sticky rice. Families usually visit each other's house and perform ancestor worship. Some practices include giving money to old people.

The holiday is divided into three parts: the Tất Niên (penultimate New Year's Eve), Giao Thừa (New Year's Eve), and Tân Niên (the New Year). The Tet eve consists of preparation before the holiday. The holiday is usually observed for one week in the month of February.

Hung Kings Temple Festival
The Hung Kings Festival is celebrated on the10th Day in the third lunar month. This festival is held in honour of the Hung Kings. A procession led by government leaders at the foot of the mountain is done to start the celebration. This is followed by offering prayers and incense to ancestors.

Reunification Day
Reunification Day or Victory Day marks the anniversary of liberating the South. This is considered a public holiday in Vietnam when the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese troops captured Saigon on April 30, 1975.

This holiday also marks the end of the Vietnam War, which later formed the Republic of Vietnam.

International Labor Day
International Workers Day or Labor Day in Vietnam is celebrated on May 1. This holiday is the first day after the reunification day, which is often tied together as extended holidays in Vietnam.

National Day
National Day is celebrated annually on September 2 in Vietnam. On this day, Vietnam remembers President Hồ Chí Minh's declaration of independence in Hanoi on September 2, 1945.

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Vietnam Public & National Holidays in 2019 (Full List)

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Public Holidays in Vietnam are observed in accordance with the different religious and cultural holidays in the country. As per Article 115 of the Labour Code (2012), employees in Vietnam are entitled to a total of 10 paid holidays every year. For foreign workers in Vietnam, they will receive an additional day off for their country's National Day.

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Though it may have started out quietly changing the denim industry, Saitex is drawing attention and becoming increasingly prominent as one of the sector's most sustainable facilities. The Vietnam-based manufacturing operation produces premium denim and over-dyed products, with a capacity of more than 6 million garments per year.

The latest Carved in Blue denim capsule launch at Kingpins Amsterdam is produced by Saitex and designed by emerging designer, Pawan Kumar.

"Saitex is focussed on creating positive impact," says Sanjeev Bahl, owner of Saitex. "Besides collaborations with brands Saitex has now opened its resources to the highest caliber of design talent from across the globe to work at our facilities. In partnership with the innovators at Lenzing, we are proud to have provided the collaboration and expertise needed to bring Pawan Kumar's vision (of Midnight Blues capsule) to life in the most sustainable context."

Read more at Carved in Blue.
This article is one of a series on Rivet from Lenzing's Carved in Blue denim blog. From conversations with the experts behind the mills that make some of the world's most-wanted denim to the global brands bringing novel denim made with TENCEL™ Lyocell and Modal branded fibers to the market, Carved in Blue shares the stories of those whose roots run deep with denim. Visit www.carvedinblue.com

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Top 5 Things You Need to Know About Saitex

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Though it may have started out quietly changing the denim industry, Saitex is drawing attention and becoming increasingly prominent as one of the sector's most sustainable facilities. The Vietnam-based manufacturing operation produces premium denim and over-dyed products, with a capacity of more than 6 million garments per year.

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