Tag: supply chains

• The Retail Resurgence

  November 29, 2020

  The pandemic has upended the retail industry, with supply chains in disarray and consumers flocking to new ways to shop in droves. This is your guide to how retail comes… more ›

• ‘We pick your food’: migrant workers speak out from Spain’s ‘Plastic Sea’

  September 27, 2020

  The tens of thousands of migrant workers working in the province are vital to the Spanish economy and pan-European food supply chains. Throughout the pandemic, they have held essential worker… more ›

• Prime Gouging

  September 14, 2020

  Amazon set prices of products during the COVID-19 pandemic to levels that would be considered violations of price gouging laws in many states. Amazon has misled the public, law enforcement,… more ›

• AP Exclusive: Hair weaves from Chinese prison camps seized

  July 26, 2020

  Federal authorities in New York on Wednesday seized a shipment of weaves and other beauty accessories suspected to be made out of human hair taken from people locked inside a… more ›

• UK government and UN commit to protect seafarers and help stabilise global shipping market

  July 9, 2020

  Marking the International Day of the Seafarer, the UK government has today (25 June 2020) announced it will host the first international summit on the impact of COVID-19 on crew… more ›

• A Kenyan Painter Casts a Critical Eye on China’s Role in Africa

  February 22, 2020

  Michael Soi’s “China Loves Africa” collection examines the symbiotic and often corrupt relationship between Beijing and African elites. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/21/world/africa/michael-soi-kenya-china.html more ›

• Xinjiang’s New Slavery

  December 12, 2019

  “Employment: Yarkant County satellite factory [for] persons in detention or reeducation. https://foreignpolicy.com/2019/12/11/cotton-china-uighur-labor-xinjiang-new-slavery/ more ›

• Supply chains are undergoing a dramatic transformation

  July 14, 2019

  TOM LINTON, chief procurement and supply-chain officer at Flex, an American contract-manufacturing giant, has his finger on The Pulse. That is the name of his firm’s whizzy command centre in… more ›

• Fishing boats to small stores, Amazon will stop at nothing to win in India

  November 23, 2018

  Fishing boats to small stores, Amazon will stop at nothing to win in India Before any Amazon parcel arrives at Sahiba Ashraf’s creaky wooden balcony on Havelock Island, it undertakes… more ›

• The Essential Guide to Electronics in Shenzhen

  February 8, 2016

  The Essential Guide to Electronics in Shenzhen » Going to Shenzhen, China is a massive enabler for Makers, hackers, and entrepreneurs alike. The Essential Guide to Electronics in Shenzhen is… more ›