The fashion industry has an opportunity to act differently, pursuing profit and growth while creating new value for the world economy, a new report says, and addressing an urgent need to place environmental, social and ethical improvements on management’s agenda.

Representatives of the EU, US, Canada, Bangladesh and the International Labour Organisation (ILO) have recognised the progress made by Bangladesh in the third annual review of the Bangladesh Sustainability Compact, but reaffirmed the need to ensure workers enjoy freedom of association and collective bargaining rights.

An initiative which aims to change the way companies source garments to ensure higher wages can be paid, has been recognised by G20 Labour Ministers as an example of the essential role of social partners in reducing inequality, eliminating poverty wages and achieving sustainable wage growth.

UK footwear group Clarks said it made tangible progress in fiscal 2016/17, despite booking a near 50% fall in earnings due to extremely challenging trading conditions globally.

Johnny Ashby, a British-born songwriter, whose debut album “The Cannonball Days” — released March 2015 — jumped  to #12 on  the iTunes chart, is the featured artist for the Sunset Serenades concert Friday, May 26 at Heisler Park amphitheater at Cliff Drive.

According to his website, Ashby works in Los Angeles and London. His music has been featured on prime time television, including on MTV and CBS, including the show “Elementary” staring Lucy Liu.

Take the free trolley to avoid traffic.

IF YOU GO

What: John Ashby at Sunset Sernades Concert

Where: Heisler Park amphitheater, Cliff Drive, just north of Main Beach.

When: 6:30 p.m., Friday, May 26

More info: lagunabeachcity.net or visitlagunabeach.com/trolley or johnnyashby.com

IRVINE — Eighty-hundred and fifty volunteers participated in a Just Serve event Saturday, May 20, packing 217,792 meals for those in need locally and globally, an organizer said.

The volunteers worked in assembly line fashion at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Irvine. The church partnered with the Power of Ten and Harvest Pack to host the event.

The church will ship 110,628 rice meals to the International Care Ministry in the Philippines and donate 107,304 oatmeal meals to the Second Harvest Food Bank of Orange County.

The Shir Ha-Ma-alot congregation of Irvine also participated in the event.

Laguna Niguel’s summer concert series returns on Friday, June 9 with a performance from Tommy Tassi and The Authentics.

The rock band, playing tunes from the 1950s, is the first of six to play at the Crown Valley Community Park through August.

The free concerts will be held from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Entrance is free while food from Soho Taco and Cut Handcrafted Burgers is available for purchase.

Guests are urged to bring low chairs and blankets. A shuttle service is also offered from City Hall.

IF YOU GO

What: Tommy Tassi and The Authentics

When: 6:30 p.m. Friday, June 9

Where: Crown Valley Community Park, 29751 Crown Valley Parkway.

Information: cityoflagunaniguel.org

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SANTA ANA The body of 17-year-old Aubreyanna Sade Parks was found by cyclists on a grassy curb in an upscale neighborhood of Yorba Linda just before 5:30 a.m. on Feb. 4, 2014.

She had been stabbed multiple times.

Police found her dragonfly charm necklace, a bloody box-cutter knife, and a severed finger of hers at the scene.

Hours later, a Yorba Linda man walked into an emergency room in Corona with a severe cut on his hand and a story that raised suspicions with the doctor.

Trial began in Orange County Superior Court on Monday for Larry Shoo Shin, 38, who is accused of luring Parks to Yorba Linda and stabbing the teenager to death as she fought for her life.

In his opening statement, Senior Deputy District Attorney Troy Pino said Parks was working as a prostitute when Shin lured her to a wealthy neighborhood where he did not live and pretended to be a rich man seeking company while his wife was out of a town.

When she arrived around 4 a.m. Shin stabbed her and left her body sprawled on the curb, Pino said. The prosecutor said Parks had more than 30 cuts and defensive wounds and had tried to fight back using her box cutter.

Shin suffered a severe gash to his hand in the bloody confrontation, Pino said. He tried to stop the bleeding at home but realized the cut was too deep and went to the Corona hospital, even though there was a hospital just five miles from his home in Yorba Linda, Pino said.

Pino said Shin told the doctor that he “fell on his knife,” but his story was suspicious so the doctor called police.

Police searched Shin’s Prius parked at the hospital and found a knife under the seat that had blood from both Shin and the victim, Pino said. In the Prius, police also found Parks’ cell phone with text messages from Shin shortly before the killing asking her to meet him outside, he said.

Pino said Parks sometimes used an alias, Keisha Clark.

In a possible motive, Pino said, Parks and Shin had dated about seven months prior to the killing, and Shin, whose family owned several ATM machines, had accused her of stealing $5,000 to $20,000 from him while he was loading one of the ATMs.

He had lured her to that neighborbood by pretending to be someone else, Pino said.

Shin at the time had called police and told them that his girlfriend, Keisha Clark, had stolen money from him, Pino said.

Pino said Parks’ mother, about a year ago, searched through her daughter’s belongings and found a fake ID with her daughter’s picture and the name Keisha Clark.

“She was not an angel, she had her issues like we all do – I’m asking you to hold (Shin) accountable for what he did,” Pino told the jury.

Shin’s defense attorney, Edward Welbourn, waived his option of giving an opening statement on Monday.

A former cheerleader at Peary Middle School in Gardena, Parks was a good student and aspiring attorney before she met a man that coerced her into prostitution, her family has said.

Santa Ana police had arrested Parks in a prostitution sting a month before her death, and her pimp, Marsalis Joseph Smith, also was caught in the crackdown.

Parks told officers she feared Smith would hurt her or her family if she didn’t do as he said. She was taken to a shelter but left days later.

Smith, who was in custody when Parks was killed, pleaded guilty in 2014 to human trafficking and making criminal threats. He was sentenced to five years in prison.

GREEN GAL: The Duchess of Cambridge took in a private tour of the Chelsea Flower Show held at the Royal Chelsea London Hospital on Monday.
She met with the floral show’s exhibitors and judges and viewed Northern Irish designer Ian Price’s “Mind Trap” garden, the Sir Simon Milton Foundation Garden and the M&G Garden 2017. The duchess was joined by Princess Eugenie and Princess Beatrice. The annual show is said to be a favorite of Queen Elizabeth.
Kate Middleton donned a floral green printed Rochas midi dress.

The Duchess of Cambridge in Rochas. 
AP/REX/Shutterstock

This is the second time the duchess has attended to the annual flower show. Last year, she joined Prince William and Prince Harry, as the royals visited the floral arch that was designed for Queen Elizabeth’s 90th birthday at the venue, the Royal Hospital Chelsea.
Over the weekend the young royal remained low-key during her sister Pippa Middleton’s wedding, which was held on Saturday. where she donned a custom-made, Forties-style midi dress by Alexander McQueen.
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