Japanese automaker Honda Motor has agreed to pay a compensation of $605m related to the Takata airbag issue in the US. The settlement covers more than 16.5 million vehicles in the country, for installing potentially faulty airbag ...
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The US will start an investigation into whether thermoplastic components used in various German and Japanese vehicle models sold in the country violate its patent laws. The US International Trade Commission (USITC) has voted to institute ...
German authorities have raided Audi’s offices and homes of several officials over the emissions test cheating scandal by its parent firm Volkswagen. The authorities allege that Audi engineers and managers might have installed the ...
Volkswagen is nearing a $4.3bn settlement with the US regulators that would include pleading guilty to several criminal charges in the diesel emissions scandal. The company is in advanced discussions with the USDepartment of Justice and ...
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ConAgra Grocery Products, a subsidiary of ConAgra, has agreed to pay a fine $11.2m to resolve a decade long peanut butter case related to a countrywide outbreak of salmonella in the US. The company has pleaded guilty of shipping ...
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Williams-Sonoma announced the exclusive launch of a chocolate collaboration between Eric Ripert and Anthony Bourdain called the Good & Evil Chocolate Bar. Inspired by the friendship and personalities of Eric Ripert and Anthony Bourdain, ...
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Even the US Supreme Court justices were a little befuddled over what to do with the legal saga between Apple and Samsung. The two largest phone makers in the world squared off in the highest court in the land Tuesday over the value of ...
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Thousands of dangerous and counterfeit toys were seized from Smartway Imports in who pleaded guilty to seven offences relating to unsafe toys. A Salford-based company has been fined almost £25,000 for selling fake and counterfeit ...
Amazon has been found guilty of shipping dangerous goods by air, and now has to cough up serious cash in penance. A UK court has ordered Amazon to pay £65,000 in fines after the online retailer tried to transport flammable aerosols ...
There are some serious lessons to be learnt for businesses in the food industry when examining a unique case of food fraud out of the UK this week. Facts of the fraudulent scenario The guilty culprit, Yakub Moosa Yusuf, was sentenced to ...
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Rubicon Technology Inc of Bensenville, IL, USA (which makes monocrystalline sapphire substrates and products for the LED, semiconductor and optical industries) has confirmed that investment firm Paragon Technologies Inc of Easton, PA, USA, ...
Japanese Omron Automotive Electronics (OAE) has agreed to plead guilty and pay $4.6m fine for its involvement in rigging bids for power window switches in Honda Civics, the US department of justice (DoJ) said. The justice department said ...
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Australian prime minister Malcolm Turnbull has today announced that the ‘effects test’ will be introduced into the Australian Competition and Consumer Act. Introducing the test will change Section 46 of the Competition and ...
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A Chinese court granted a man who spent more than 11 years behind bars after a false murder conviction 1.27 million yuan (200,000 U.S. dollars) in state compensation on Monday. Citing insufficient evidence, the Xiangtan Intermediate ...
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The former president of a key university in east China's Jiangxi Province was sentenced to life in prison on Tuesday for bribery and embezzlement of public funds. Zhou Wenbin was found guilty of accepting cash and gifts worth more than 21 ...