HBR says: Foxconn, the Apple supplier, has attracted worldwide attention for repeated reports of unsafe working conditions. In May 2011, an explosion at its iPad plant in Chengdu killed three employees. But Foxconn isn’t alone: Media accounts of dangerous working…
2013-02-02
TWITTER says hackers may have gained access to information on 250,000 of its more than 200 million active users.
2013-02-02
THE Dow closed above 14,000 yesterday for the first time in more than five years.
2013-02-02
Oil prices rose yesterday as traders took their cue from the soaring stock market, after some initial disappointment with the latest report on US employment
2013-02-02
The government says it will restrict travellers crossing from the former British colony to two tins of infant milk powder, as concern rages
2013-02-02
CHINA has approved the sale of HSBC's remaining US$7.5 billion stake in Ping An Insurance to a group controlled by Thailand's richest man, giving the green light to the country's biggest inbound merger and acquisition deal.
2013-02-02
MANUFACTURING activity in China's state-owned enterprises eased for the first time in six months in January, defying market expectations but indicating a still mild economic recovery.
2013-02-02
CHINESE carmaker Geely has bought Manganese Bronze, the maker of London's black taxis, for 11 million pounds (US$17.5 million), keeping jobs and output of the vehicles in Britain.
2013-02-02
HOME prices in China rose faster in January than in December, with nearly two-thirds of the cities monitored seeing gains.
2013-02-02
A row of new Mercedes-Benz cars are seen on the assembly line in the central Hungarian town of Kecskemet. German luxury automaker Daimler AG yesterday said it will pay 640 million euros (US$875 million) for 12 percent of BAIC Motor, a unit of Beijing A…
2013-02-02
SHANGHAI'S key stock index yesterday rose to the highest in nearly nine months after data showed China's manufacturing activity continued to climb in January.