Business, Economics and Jobs

May 21, 2019

This is hardly what Americans envision when they drop off glitchy laptops or broken printers at their local recycling drop-off center. Yet, what fuels these Southeast Asian scrapyards is junk from afar — typically more affluent places such as Europe, Australia and the US.

'Hi, I want a job in Antarctica': Meet the first female researchers to blaze the path

PRI's The World

May 20, 2019

In the spring of 1969, 19-year-old Terry Tickhill Terrell walked into the Institute of Polar Studies at OSU and told the secretary, “Hi, I want a job in Antarctica.”

Google suspends some business with Huawei after Trump blacklist

Reuters

May 20, 2019

Google has suspended business with Huawei that requires the transfer of hardware, software and technical services except those publicly available via open source licensing.

Environment

Inside the long war to protect plastic

The Center for Public Integrity

May 16, 2019

Single-use plastic is clogging oceans and landfills. The industry that makes it has waged a decades-long campaign to keep it on the market.

Technology

US blacklists China's Huawei as trade dispute clouds global outlook

Reuters

May 16, 2019

The Trump administration announced plans to hit Chinese telecom giant Huawei with severe sanctions on Wednesday, adding another incendiary element to the US-China trade dispute.

Global Politics

Rebels hope to kill off May’s Brexit deal in ‘last-chance’ vote

Reuters

May 15, 2019

Brexit-supporting rebels in British Prime Minister Theresa May's Conservative Party said on Wednesday they would vote down her European Union divorce deal when she brings it back to parliament next month. Defeat in the vote would likely spell the end of May's divorce deal and probably her premiership.

South Korea's latest big export: Jobless college graduates

Reuters

May 13, 2019

Facing an unprecedented job crunch, many young South Koreans are signing up for government-sponsored programs designed to find overseas positions for a growing number of jobless college graduates in Asia's fourth largest economy. But the jobs are not always as advertised.

China to impose tariffs on US goods despite Trump warning

Reuters

May 13, 2019

China said on Monday it would impose higher tariffs on a range of US goods, striking back in its trade war with Washington shortly after US President Donald Trump warned it not to retaliate.

Trump says trade wars are 'easy to win.' (They're not.)

PRI's The World

May 10, 2019

It looked like Washington and Beijing were close to a deal. But discussions fell apart and US President Donald Trump is increasing the rate for tariffs on Chinese imports.

Food

Raicilla used to be illegal. Now it's catching on with craft-cocktail drinkers.

PRI's The World

May 10, 2019

A type of regional mezcal from Jalisco, Mexico, is making its way north of the border. But new regulations meant to protect rural producers may wind up threatening their very existence.

Business, Economics and Jobs

Your ‘recycled’ laptop may be incinerated in an illegal Asian scrapyard

'Hi, I want a job in Antarctica': Meet the first female researchers to blaze the path

Google suspends some business with Huawei after Trump blacklist

Inside the long war to protect plastic

US blacklists China's Huawei as trade dispute clouds global outlook

Rebels hope to kill off May’s Brexit deal in ‘last-chance’ vote

South Korea's latest big export: Jobless college graduates

China to impose tariffs on US goods despite Trump warning

Trump says trade wars are 'easy to win.' (They're not.)

Raicilla used to be illegal. Now it's catching on with craft-cocktail drinkers.

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