Tag Archives: Hong Kong
$20 billion Hong Kong firm the sweatshop locator for the West
“If globalization is a race to the bottom, where lowest wages win,” said Cathy Feingold, director of international affairs for the A.F.L.-C.I.O., “Li & Fung is the sherpa showing companies the fastest route down that slope.” Li & Fung has long been on the cutting edge of globalization, chasing cheap labor to garment factories first […]
Hong Kong protesters rally around Snowden
Chanting slogans like “Shame, U.S. government,” demonstrators marched from a downtown park to the United States Consulate nearby to urge that Edward J. Snowden, a former National Security Agency contractor accused of leaking documents about United States surveillance programs, be allowed to remain in Hong Kong and protected from American law enforcement officials. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/16/world/asia/demonstrators-march-for-snowden-in-hong-kong.html?hp Saturday’s […]
Dirty Babylon 