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In the 1930s, rubber factory workers drank alcohol and suddenly felt sick. It wasn't just a workplace illness, it led to the discovery of Antabuse, helping millions quit drinkingAn accidental discovery in a rubber factory in the 1930s revealed that workers exposed to tetraethylthiuram disulfide experienced severe re...- Fishermen are being pushed to the brink by fuel costs in Southeast AsiaRising energy, freight, and supply chain expenses are escalating seafood prices globally. Governments offer aid, but it's stretched thin, i...
- Kerala polls: Parties battle to turn state from 'departure lounge' into destinationAs Kerala gears up for Assembly polls, migration emerges as a key election issue. Expatriates like Roy George highlight the significant sal...
- A town divided: Inside Perumbavoor’s migrant flashpoint, where drugs, fear and politics collideA signboard in Perumbavoor, Kerala, warns against drug peddling and prostitution, highlighting tensions between local residents and migrant...
- Delhi’s factory count rises but jobs lag, signalling shift in industrial growthDelhi's factories have increased, but job growth in its industrial sector remains slow. This indicates a gradual recovery after the Covid-1...
- Squid Game creator reveals the real-life violence which inspired the hit Netflix showThe second season of Squid Game is set to stream on Netflix. Inspired by the Ssangyong Motor Company strikes of 2009, the show explores the...
- Tripura Chief Minister Manik Saha laid the foundation stone of state’s first tea auction centreAfter laying the foundation stone of the proposed tea auction center, the Chief Minister said on the X: “A leap towards development of tea ...
- Waste from Adidas, Walmart, other brands fuelling Cambodia brick kilns: reportWaste from at least 19 international brands including Adidas and Walmart is being used to fuel kilns in brick factories in Cambodia, and so...
- 150 Bangladesh garment factories shut, 11,000 workers chargedThe Bangladeshi garment manufacturers took the decision to close 150 factories "indefinitely" on Saturday. This move comes in the wake of b...
- Fresh clashes as Bangladesh garment workers protest low wageThousands of garment workers in Bangladesh have staged protests, demanding fair wages for their work, which includes making clothing for We...
- US manufacturing output rises solidly in SeptemberDespite strikes in the automobile industry, U.S. factory production increased more than expected in September, indicating that the economy ...
- How COVID-19 in Southeast Asia is threatening global supply chainsVietnam, Malaysia and Thailand are three of the region's major manufacturing hubs and produce goods for some of the world's largest consume...
- Covid lockdown: DPIIT suggests Home Ministry to permit limited activity in select sectorsIn a letter to Home Secretary Ajay Kumar Bhalla, the department said that these activities are essential to improve the economic situation ...
- Goodyear Thailand to build $162 million aviation tyre factoryThe demand for radial tyres is expected to improve as new commercial planes use them as standard, because they are lighter than bias tyres ...
- Six killed in a landslide in ChinaAt least six workers have been killed after a landslide struck a rubber factory in southwest China's Yunnan province.
- Tata Steel factory explosion injures 11 workersEleven Tata Steel employees and contract workers were injured on Thursday following an explosion inside its factory.
- Apollo Tyres Q1 net profit flat; lock-out at Perambra continuesApollo Tyres today reported a flat consolidated net profit at Rs 74.20 crore for the quarter ended June 30, bogged down by high raw materia...
- Strikes put China on spot over labor unrestWorkers demanding higher wages rallied outside a Honda plant in southern China on Friday, part of a rash of industrial action at Chinese fa...
- RPG group to invest Rs 9000 cr on expansion driveKolkata-based RPG group will invest Rs 9,000 crore in power, tyre and carbon black industries as part of its expansion programme in the nex...
- Human noses to sniff out China's pollutantsA dozen people with professional "noses" are set to help in the battle against pollution in southern China.
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