Fears of China moving to ban the import of lower grade coal have again resurfaced amid concern over the country's high pollution levels, with several market participants indicating that the government is seriously contemplating such a move ...
An environmental protection group and labor rights group are trying to pressure Apple into abandoning two hazardous chemicals used to make iPhones. Green America and China Labor Watch launched their campaign Wednesday to protect the ...
Tags: Consumer Electronics, iPhone
Port Metro Vancouver is readying itself for labour unrest by upping its security measures. This weekend, members of Unifor-Vancouver Container Truckers' Association (VCTA) and the United Truckers Association (UTA) both voted against a ...
Tags: Transportation, Auto Parts, logistics
On Wednesday, Apple removed the Blockchain wallet app, the only remaining app that could be used to make Bitcoin payments on the iOS platform, from its App Store. And Bitcoiners are pissed off. How pissed off? One particular Apple customer ...
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In Georgia, some navigator events were canceled after health law opponents held a protest at one and posted other events on its website, urging more protests. In South Dakota, meanwhile, a lawmaker introduced a bill to require state ...
Tags: UGA, Health Law Navigator, Coweta County, ACA
South Korea's SK Innovation has suspended construction of an almost completed paraxylene plant in Incheon, in the country's west coast, after local authorities accused the company of violating the city's building codes, the company said ...
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BEIJING, Jan. 23 (Xinhua) -- China will see a wider shortage of paraxylene (PX) supply in 2014, a research report warned on Thursday. The supply gap will be up to 9.5 million tonnes in 2014, said a report by the economics and technology ...
Tags: PX, Sinopec, Chemical, environment
China is aiming high on the industrial ladder. Getting there requires advanced equipment such as robots that is still firmly in the hands of foreign enterprises. Industrial robots are used to do things like bolt panels on cars or ...
Tags: Chinese Robotics, Foreign Firms
Aided in some cases by a new cast of elected officials, groups pushing for Medicaid expansion hope to reopen the debate in state legislative sessions beginning in Maine, Virginia, Louisiana, Kansas and Georgia. The Washington Post: Maine ...
Pessimists are fond of saying that no good deed goes unpunished. An Australian teenager who reported a security vulnerability in a government website and now faces legal troubles probably agrees. Joshua Rogers, a 16-year-old Victoria ...
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Executives from Columbia Sportswear, Adidas Group and Puma SE condemned the Cambodian government's use of deadly force against protesting garment workers and urged the nation's factory owners and trade unions to work together to help the ...
Tags: Columbia Sportswear, Adidas Group, Puma SE, Cambodian, garment workers
Earlier this month, Dick Cheney stated that the medical device tax may have killed him if it were in effect in the decades he struggled against heart disease. The former vice president received a heart transplant in 2012. Cheney is ...
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The leading international sports business exhibition ISPO MUNICH adds a number of new exhibitors to its 2014 lineup: primarily due to the expansion of the Health segment with its own dedicated exhibit hall, and its second new feature, the ...
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There’s a patchwork of regulation when it comes to the towing industry— out of Ontario’s 444 municipalities, only a handful have towing regulations and even those are not harmonized and don’t properly regulate ...
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Dozens of leading news organizations are protesting to the White House against restrictions that sometimes keep journalists from taking pictures and video of President Barack Obama performing official duties. At the same time, two press ...
Tags: News Orgs, White House, Press Limits, Protest