Les mines du Katanga sont encore loin de se soustraire de l’actualité. Avec le dernier scénario qui met en cause Boss Mining, filiale de la « Central african mining and exploration company (Camec) », la bataille autour des mines de la province du Katanga vient de se transplanter sur la place publique. La « guerre [...]

TOKYO (AFP) — A Japanese government website crashed Wednesday as people raced to take up an offer of a half-price McDonald’s hamburger in exchange for pledging to fight global warming. The Japanese unit of the US burger giant Tuesday offered a Big Mac for 150 yen (1.3 dollars), about half the normal price, to [...]

Two of Britain’s major high street retailers launched inquiries last night into allegations that factory workers who make their clothes in India are being paid as little as 13p per hour for a 48-hour week, wages so low the workers claim they sometimes have to rely on government food parcels. Primark, the UK’s second biggest [...]

The bottled water industry has recently come under attack by critics who say they are concerned about the quantity of water bottles going to our landfills and the energy used transporting them to market. But those who propose bans on bottled water don’t acknowledge that bottled water represents less than 1 percent of the municipal [...]