Warehouse workers risk COVID-19 to ship Gucci shades, face cream, sofas
(Reuters) – As U.S. authorities ordered shutdowns of non-essential businesses to fight coronavirus, retailer Nordstrom Inc closed hundreds of stores…
U.S.-based chip-tech group moving to Switzerland over trade curb fears
SAN FRANCISCO/WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A U.S.-based foundation overseeing promising semiconductor technology developed with Pentagon support will soon move to Switzerland…
Johnson & Johnson CEO testified Baby Powder was safe 13 days before FDA bombshell
LOS ANGELES/NEW YORK (Reuters) – Facing off against a plaintiff’s lawyer for the first time about Johnson & Johnson’s Baby…
Hydrogen hurdles: a deadly blast hampers South Korea’s big fuel cell car bet
SEOUL (Reuters) – Aiming to cash in on a major push by South Korea to promote fuel cell vehicles, Sung…
Inside drugmakers’ strategy to boost cancer medicines with ‘Lazarus effect’
(Reuters) – In the halls of MD Anderson Cancer Center, the drug Vitrakvi is known for having a “Lazarus effect”…
U.S. farmers look past trade fears to cash in on China’s hog crisis
WALCOTT, Iowa/LONDON (Reuters) – It might seem an unlikely time for U.S. farmers to look to China for more business…
Wall Street banks bailing on troubled U.S. farm sector
CHICAGO/WASHINGTON (Reuters) – In the wake of the U.S. housing meltdown of the late 2000s, JPMorgan Chase & Co hunted…
European startups navigate long, winding road to self-driving future
OXFORD, England (Reuters) – Far from the sunny, wide streets of Phoenix, where Waymo’s self-driving taxis ply their trade, a…
Swine fever toll in China may be twice as high as reported, industry insiders say
BEIJING (Reuters) – As many as half of China’s breeding pigs have either died from African swine fever or been…
The obscure advisory committees at the heart of the U.S. drug pricing debate
CHICAGO (Reuters) – Expectations were high last year for three new migraine drugs hitting the market from Amgen Inc, Eli…
In South Korea’s struggling Kia Town, ‘bad jobs’ better than no jobs
GWANGJU, South Korea (Reuters) – Park Byung-kyu once led Kia Motor’s union in the city of Gwangju, fighting for labor…
How excess speed, hasty commands and flawed software doomed an Ethiopian Airlines 737 MAX
PARIS/SEATTLE/SINGAPORE (Reuters) – Minutes after take-off, the pilots of an Ethiopian Airlines 737 MAX were caught in a bad situation.…
Long before Trump’s trade war with China, Huawei’s activities were secretly tracked
(Reuters) – The surprise arrest of Huawei’s chief financial officer in December quickly turned the executive, Meng Wanzhou, into a…
A Fed pivot, born of volatility, missteps, and new economic reality
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Federal Reserve’s promise in January to be “patient” about further interest rate hikes, putting a three-year-old…
Dividend windfall: Santander latest target in Germany’s giant fraud probe
FRANKFURT (Reuters) – Spain’s Santander (SAN.MC) is the latest bank to be caught up in Germany’s biggest post-war fraud investigation…
A bridge too far
Following the collapse of a bridge in Genoa last month, experts worry about the stability of other European bridges… READ…
The night a Chinese billionaire was accused of rape in Minnesota
MINNEAPOLIS/NEW YORK (Reuters) – With the Chinese billionaire Richard Liu at her Minneapolis area apartment, a 21-year-old University of Minnesota…
Hong Kong’s Next Emigration Wave | Insight | Full episode
Can Hong Kong afford another brain drain stemming from a growing dissatisfaction over the lack of political freedom and social…
Walmart stumbles with its ‘last mile’ package delivery plan
EAST BRUNSWICK, N.J. (Reuters) – Standing before an audience of 14,000 people last year, Walmart Inc executives described a radical…
Trump-Kim summit: The North Korean dilemma | Insight | Full episode
After the dangerous game of brinkmanship between US President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, where will…
Trump-Kim summit: The prospect of peace | Insight | Full episode
Will the meeting between US President Donald Trump and North Korean leader, Kim Jong Un result in a complete denuclearization…
Trump-Kim summit: A path to peace | Insight | Full episode
Can the upcoming summit put aside decades of hostilities and fulfill the pledge of a nuclear free region? Insight investigates.…
Fed up with rising costs, big U.S. firms dig into healthcare
SAN JOSE, Calif. (Reuters) – At its Silicon Valley headquarters, network gear maker Cisco Systems Inc is going to unusual…
Colombia’s Venezuelan migrant influx
The Simon Bolivar bridge has become symbolic of the exodus from Venezuela. The crossing is also just one piece of…
How Rusal escaped the noose of U.S. sanctions
LONDON/PARIS/WASHINGTON (Reuters) – They were supposed to be the toughest sanctions the United States had ever imposed on a Russian…
China’s multi-story hog hotels elevate industrial farms to new levels
YAJI MOUNTAIN, China (Reuters) – On Yaji Mountain in southern China, they are checking in the sows a thousand head…
Insight: China’s multi-story hog hotels elevate industrial farms to new levels
YAJI MOUNTAIN, China (Reuters) – On Yaji Mountain in southern China, they are checking in the sows a thousand head…
‘Boiled frog syndrome’: Germany’s China problem
SCHROBENHAUSEN, Germany (Reuters) – Bauer, a big producer of construction equipment, is better placed than many German companies that invested…
Insect farms gear up to feed soaring global protein demand
LANGLEY, British Columbia (Reuters) – Layers of squirming black soldier fly larvae fill large aluminum bins stacked 10-high in a…
Google poised to emerge unscathed from European antitrust crackdown
BRUSSELS/SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – The European Union’s top antitrust regulator, Margrethe Vestager, has made it her mission to stem alleged…
Iran’s post-sanction economy doing well one year after nuclear deal
Iran’s nuclear deal was signed at a time when the country’s political risks were high, and economic income and investment…