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Made in Korea: Rare look at jointly run factories

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on April 6th

By JEAN H. LEEAssociated Press There is a North Korean factory with no portraits of the country's late leaders on the walls, no North Korean flags, no hand-painted posters screaming party slogans. Everything from the tissues to the toilets comes from South Korea. Bent over bolts of wool and

The factory fire: Global commerce, local tragedy

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on December 1st

By By ADAM GELLERAP National Writer In the charred bones of the Tazreen Fashions Ltd. factory, the labels and logos - sewn and printed in scarlet and royal blue - beckon from the ashes. Even in ruins, there's no missing that these T-shirts and jeans were intended for U.S. stores and

Bangladeshis mourn garment-fire dead, plan protest

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on November 26th

By FARID HOSSAIN and JULHAS ALAMAssociated Press DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) - Bangladesh held a day of mourning Tuesday for the 112 people killed in a weekend fire at a garment factory, and labor groups planned more protests to demand better worker safety in an industry notorious for operating in

Bangladeshis mourn garment-fire dead, plan protest

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on November 26th

112-year-old US apparel maker in Pa. to close

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on November 5th

By MICHAEL RUBINKAMAssociated Press ORWIGSBURG, Pa. (AP) - One of the last U.S. apparel manufacturers of its kind is losing its shirt. FesslerUSA had survived war and depression, free trade and foreign imports, producing millions of knitted garments from its base in eastern Pennsylvania. Five

112-year-old US apparel maker in Pa. to close

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on November 4th

112-year-old US apparel maker in Pa. to close

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on November 4th

Pussy Riot members face tough life in penal colony

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on October 14th

By MAX SEDDONAssociated Press MOSCOW (AP) - It's a far cry from Stalin's gulag, but the guiding principle of the Russian penal colony -- the destination of two members of punk band Pussy Riot -- remains the same: isolate inmates and wear them down through "corrective labor." Maria

Secondhand clothes from West flood Nigeria markets

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on September 19th

By LEKAN OYEKANMIAssociated Press LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) - At Nigeria's Katangua Market, that castaway from the West means big money. Shipping container after shipping container arrive in the market in Lagos, filled to the brim with plastic-wrapped bales of secondhand clothes from the U.S. and

Indian businessman is weapons maker for Hollywood

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on June 14th

By NIRMALA GEORGEAssociated Press SAHIBABAD, India (AP) - On the outskirts of New Delhi, in a cramped concrete workshop where the air shimmers with the light of welding torches, an Indian businessman has become a master craftsman of Napoleonic swords. And medieval chain mail