Guangxi is an emerging manufacturing and retail hub in China’s jewellery sector. This province in Southern China is rich in gemstone minerals, and it shares a border with Vietnam in the southwest. To stimulate trade opportunities, the Guangxi Jewelry Association (GJA) has been actively organising visits to mining sites, hoping to turn the province into a gemstone...

Changing consumer prefe-rences and soaring raw material prices have prompted India’s manufacturers to produce trendy and fashionable lightweight jewellery as quickly and effectively as possible. Recent research on India’s purchasing behaviour...

Jewellery set with diamonds, coloured gemstones and pearls were among the top-selling goods of Asian jewellery retailers in 2011, JNA learned. In this report, we asked a number of retailers from Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, South Korea, Thailand and Vietnam to share...

Prices of higher-quality rough diamonds are improving further, Gem Diamonds Ltd said in its interim management statement for the January 1 to April 15 period. Gem Diamonds CEO Clifford Elphick said the “Gem Diamonds Price Index (which measures prices for Letšeng and Kimberley rough diamonds on a like for like basis) is up some 7 percent for 2012, reflecting a continued strengthening of the market for higher-end...

The third international Tahitian pearl auction generated $4.7 million in revenues, with 426,216 pearls, divided into 430 lots, sold during the three-day sale in March, auction partner Maison de la Perle – Tahiti announced.

The Coloured Stone Commis-sion (CSC) and the CSC Steering Committee (CSCSC) of Cibjo, the World Jewellery Confederation, will hold a pre-Cibjo Congress meeting in Vicenza, Italy on May 15, CSC President Nilam Alawdeen of Japan announced recently.