1 - 10 of 40 results for "factories"

  1. 1. learning | 10 Nov 2011

    Cargo can't get to factories

    About business

    By Jon Fernquest

    » Thousands of containers stuck at ports & can't reach factories, running up fees at customs, port. Bank credit running out.

  2. 2. learning | 25 Oct 2011

    Flood damage: Quick repair

    About business

    By Jon Fernquest

    » Goal of 45 days for reopening factories & saving jobs of 400,000 workers in 1,300 factories once flood waters go down.

  3. 3. business | 24 Apr 2013

    Factories told to cut landfill waste, reuse

    ENVIRONMENT

    By Nanchanok Wongsamuth, Newspaper section: Business

    » Factories are being urged to find ways to reuse their industrial waste to reduce the amount sent to landfills.

  4. 4. learning | 08 Nov 2011

    Floods: Samut Sakhon factories next?

    About business

    By Jon Fernquest

    » Home to Thailand's seafood industry with 5,000 factories & 500,000 workers, floods expected this week for one month.

  5. 5. learning | 21 Jun 2012

    Bye bye to underwear factories

    About business

    By Jon Fernquest

    » With 50-60% market share, leading underwear producer Wacoal plans to move factories to Burma, Laos or Cambodia.

  6. 6. opinion | 28 May 2013

    Rising food prices force workers into unsafe factories

    COST OF LIVING

    Newspaper section: News

    » Why do Bangladeshi garment workers feel compelled to work in hazardous factories? People have been asking this since the factory collapse last month that crushed more than 1,100 people to death near Dhaka.

  7. 7. learning | 05 Nov 2012

    End of beer & alcohol at factories

    About business & work

    By Jon Fernquest

    » In the past, some factories gave workers free beer & alcohol but fighting as well as health & production quality problems led to a new law against alcohol.

  8. 8. news | 04 May 2013

    UN urges Bangladesh to close unsafe factories

    By AFP

    » The UN's labour agency urged Bangladesh to close unsafe factories as search teams on Saturday pulled more bodies from the wreckage of the nation's worst industrial disaster, pushing the death toll to at least 550...

  9. 9. news | 06 May 2013

    Bangladesh to inspect factories as toll passes 660

    By AFP

    » Bangladesh on Monday announced a new high-level panel to inspect thousands of garment factories for building flaws as the death toll from the nation's worst industrial disaster surpassed 660.

  10. 10. learning | 29 Nov 2011

    Floods: Better planning for natural disasters

    About business

    By Jon Fernquest

    » Business lessons to be learned from the flood on how to reduce risk by putting factories in different locations.

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