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Asian Businesses Mull Tech Solutions to Fight Modern Slavery

Asia Pacific business leaders are working on recommendations to protect migrant workers from modern day slavery and to ensure companies' supply sources are free from such unethical employment, according to Australia's ambassador for people smuggling and human trafficking.

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For Amazon, Can Two Headquarters Still Equal One Culture?

In planning Amazon.com Inc.'s second headquarters, Chief Executive Jeff Bezos faces a new challenge: how to maintain the online retail giant's carefully cultivated culture when he can’t be in two places at once.

What to Expect From Nafta 2.0

Can the North American Free Trade Agreement be saved?

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College of Lake County Launches New Supply Chain Management Program

Responding to the needs of area residents and employers, the College of Lake County has launched an associate degree and two certificate programs in supply chain management.

Nonprofit Remake Wants to Humanize Fashion Manufacturing

Clothes shopping can be an utterly escapist experience, especially in San Francisco. One can get educated on fair trade wages and ethical fashion exponentially, but once you're surrounded by pristine, stylish interiors and lured by soothing music, all may as well be forgotten.

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Where Corn Pollutes America Most, and Who's Responsible

Companies want to know the environmental impact of their supply chains. Researchers used a crucial commodity to show them.

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U.K. and China to Collaborate on Offshore Wind Development

Researchers from the University of Exeter in the U.K. will collaborate with counterparts in China on the development of offshore renewable energy technologies.

General Motors Is Recalling 2.5M Cars in China Over Faulty Airbags

General Motors and its joint venture in China, Shanghai GM, will recall more than 2.5 million vehicles due to faulty airbag inflators, China's top quality watchdog has said.

U.S. Industrial Output Plunged After Hurricane Hit

Output at U.S. factories plunged in August due to the big hit from Hurricane Harvey that shut down huge parts of the nation's oil refining, the Federal Reserve reported last week.

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A Third of Consumers Trust Food Supply Chains, Report Says

Consumer trust in the U.K. food sector is declining as it emerges fraud is costing the industry £12bn ($16.29bn) a year, according to a report.

This Startup Aims to Make Crops Produce Their Own Nitrogen Fertilizer

German conglomerate Bayer, together with Boston biotech startup Ginkgo Bioworks, announced last week that they're creating a new company that could make it possible for crops like corn, wheat and rice to produce nitrogen fertilizer.

Plants Get Reprieve: EPA Adds Two Years to Reduce Toxic Metals in Wastewater

The EPA has finalized a rule postponing the dates for certain rules that would limit runoff from two waste streams at power plants: bottom ash transport water and flue gas desulfurization. Compliance dates for the rules, which were issued in Nov. 2015, have been pushed back by two years, the EPA says.

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