Walmart has become an icon of the corporate rush to keep costs low and profits high, regardless of the effects on society. They sell cheaply made goods—often produced in deplorable conditions—for low prices and keep…
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In the rapidly urbanizing ASEAN region today upward career mobility requires a diploma, degree, and some form of post graduate qualifications to get promotions, particularly within the desirable publicly listed companies in the region. Upon…
Some of the commercial fallout from Japan’s ‘purchase’ of the DiaoyouTai. In total, the lost sales for Japanese firms in China, in the July to September period, would appear to total in the billions of…
Three years after entering Chile, Walmart controls a staggering 34 percent of the entire market. Walmart entered Chile in 2009 when it acquired D&S, a leading food retailer there. It promptly changed its name to “Walmart Chile”…
Educating South-East Asia’s rural population to develop ideas and create new business models with appropriate technologies “You say it best when you say nothing at all” – Ronan Keating The writer was lucky enough to…
The network is seriously compromising its journalism in the Gulf states by blurring the line between advertising and editorial • Report: why didn’t CNNi air its own ‘iRevolution’ documentary? September 5, 2012 The Guardian…
As energy companies from Spain, Russia and Malaysia line up to drill for oil in Cuban waters 60 miles from the Florida Keys, U.S. agencies are struggling to cobble together emergency plans to protect fragile…
On February 21, 2012, Israel’s Economic Concentration Committee delivered its decisions. Composed by PM Benjamin Netanyahu, Finance Minister Yuval Steinitz, Bank of Israel Governor Stanley Fischer, and committee chairman Haim Shani, the committee needed to…