Mmetla Masire: Okavango to resume diamond sales in January

Botswana’s state-owned Okavango Diamond Company (ODC) is set to resume diamond sales in January 2025, whether the market remains depressed or not. ODC managing director Mmetla Masire told Rough & Polished’s Mathew Nyaungwa on the side-lines of...

18 november 2024

Helga Pombal: Angola's Stardiam finds solution to the threat posed by lab-grown diamonds

Stardiam manager of production Helga Pombal told Rough&Polished's Mathew Nyaungwa on the sidelines of the Angola International Diamond Conference that lab-grown diamonds are creating a parallel market for more accessible stones, combined with lower...

11 november 2024

Ellah Muchemwa: ADPA to launch Africa's first diamond mining standard next year

The African Diamond Producers Association (ADPA), which is based in Luanda, Angola, and represents the interests of mainly African diamond producers and those with the potential to produce diamonds, will next year launch the Sustainable Development...

04 november 2024

Dmitry Fedorov: I want our jewelry to be displayed at a museum in the future

Dmitry Fedorov is the founder of the eponymous jewelry house. His main focus is the creation of Orthodox-inspired premium luxury jewelry of high artistic merit. He told Rough&Polished about his journey in the jewelry industry, about choosing the ‘Orthodox...

28 october 2024

Responsible business practices ‘no longer optional’, says WDC President Feriel Zerouki

The president of the World Diamond Council takes time out of her busy schedule to tell Rough&Polished readers about the critical work of the WDC. Zerouki, the first female present of the body, which includes all the important industry organizations among...

14 october 2024

Jewellery & Gem ASIA Hong Kong rescheduled to Nov 2020

08 may 2020
The Jewellery & Gem ASIA Hong Kong (JGA), originally scheduled for June this year, will now take place from November 26 to 29, 2020 at the AsiaWorld-Expo owing to COVID-19 concerns, event organiser Informa Markets announced.
The show was earlier slated for June 25 to 28 at the Hong Kong Convention & Exhibition Centre. Lau has assured exhibitors that contracts and payments made for JGA will carry over to the revised dates.
According to Celine Lau, director of Jewellery Fairs at Informa Markets, a virtual event that complements the offering of Informa Markets' physical shows and leverages its powerful trading platform ‘JewelleryNet’ will be launched in the coming months. She said JGA 2020 exhibitors are invited to join the online event to showcase their latest products and services, which will help keep their business engaged during these extraordinary times.

Aruna Gaitonde, Editor in Chief of the Asian Bureau, Rough & Polished