DUBAI: A Skyline Built by Slaves
In today's Guardian Nesrine Malik brings us heartbreaking if not quite breaking news from Dubai.Tales of guest worker abuse in the Gulf states have circulated for quite some time though the situation...
View ArticleWill "Ethical Fashion" Become the New Norm?
Last month in London the actor Colin Firth hosted a book launch for To Die For: Is Fashion Wearing Out Our World? written by Lucy Siegle ethical living columnist at the Guardian newspaper. The book...
View ArticleChinese Execs Boozing Their Way to Middle Management
Binge drinking is on the rise in China reports Tania Branigan of the Guardian."If I drink it doesn't necessarily help me get promoted. But if I don't it's less likely that I will be. So I must drink...
View ArticleNOT A TYPO: One Toyota Prius Was Sold in China Last Year
Ed Begley Jr. may love his Prius more than life itself but Toyota's great green hope isn't going over particularly well in China.As Jonathan Watts the Guardian's Asia correspondent wrote last week:I am...
View ArticleGermany's New Online Changing Rooms Make Clothes Shopping Easier by Capturing...
This holiday season we’ve witnessed what could be a tipping point for online shopping as online merchants’ share of the national retail pie in the seven weeks before Christmas increased by 15% from a...
View ArticleShould Apple Commit to Producing Conflict-Free iPhones?
Back in December Samsung released a series of cheeky commercials for its Galaxy S II Android (GOOG) phones that mocked Apple’s (AAPL) hipster fanboys. Indeed Apple has always positioned the company as...
View ArticleJunior Banker Explains Why He's Quit the M&A World
I’ve written about how 2011 was an annus horribilis for bankers on Wall Street. Across the pond in the world’s largest financial center outside of New York City the situation is not any different with...
View ArticleEU to Mandate Quota on Number of Women on Corporate Boards
A year ago European Union justice commissioner Viviane Reding called on companies in the region to voluntarily take active steps towards increasing the number of women on boards. The aim was for women...
View ArticleSyrian President Bashar al-Assad Is an Apple Fan, Apparently
The powerful allure of Apple’s (APPL) aesthetically pleasing products has proven irresistible to millions around the world and as it turns out even dictators succumb to the siren songs of the world’s...
View ArticleLatest Foxconn Controversy: The Apple Supplier Exploits Student Interns
Another day another Foxconn controversy. Yes Foxconn now probably world-renowned for being the assembler-in-chief of Apple’s (AAPL) iPads and iPhones and which also assemble products for Amazon (AMZN)...
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