Conflicts at a COVID-19 test kit factory in China’s southwest metropolis Chongqing thousands of workers clashed with the police. Footage online shows workers throwing various objects at officers and the police force running away from angry protesters. The conflict comes as 8,000 workers were laid off by a local drug manufacturer. During the pandemic, the […]
Medical services in China are being overwhelmed with COVID-19 cases, with one doctor saying the corridors of his Beijing hospital are full of sick people while more people are lining up outside seeking treatment. “There are so many COVID-infected people now that the hospital corridors are full of patients,” Yang Yun (pseudonym), a doctor at the […]
BEIJING—Access to an industrial zone in the central Chinese city of Zhengzhou was suspended Wednesday after the city reported 64 coronavirus cases and workers who assemble Apple Inc. iPhones left their factory in the zone following outbreaks. The announcement did not say whether the isolation of the Zhengzhou Airport Economic Zone was related to cases […]
Japan’s factory activity growth slowed further to a 21-month low in October as relentless cost pressures torment manufacturers; but service-sector firms received a boost as the country reopened to foreign tourists visa-free. The au Jibun Bank Flash Japan Manufacturing Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI) eased to a seasonally adjusted 50.7 in October, down from the prior […]
BEIJING—China’s factory activity extended declines in August as new COVID-19 infections, heat waves, and an embattled property sector weighed on production, suggesting the economy will struggle to sustain momentum. The official manufacturing purchasing managers’ index (PMI) rose to 49.4 in August from 49.0 in July, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) said on Wednesday. While […]
Two people were rescued after they fell into a tank full of chocolate at a Mars M&M factory in Pennsylvania on Thursday. The two people, who are employees at the plant, were unable to get out on their own after they fell in the tank around 1:50 p.m., according to multiple local reports. The facility is […]
LUCKNOW, India—At least eight workers were killed and over a dozen others injured after a fire erupted in a chemical factory in northern India, police said Saturday. The fire broke out after a boiler exploded in the factory in the Hapur area of Uttar Pradesh state, said senior police officer Pravin Kumar. The injured have […]
HYDERABAD, India—Fire raged through a pharmaceutical factory after an explosion in southern India, killing at least six workers on night shift and burning 13 others, police said Thursday. The fire broke out due to a chemical reactor leaking monomethyl nitric acid—used for manufacturing several types of polymers—which caused an explosion on Wednesday night, Police Officer […]
Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear announced on Tuesday that an investigation will be carried out into the deaths of eight people who were killed at a candle factory when a tornado struck over the weekend. At least eight people were killed after the tornado struck the Mayfield Consumer Products factory, the company said on Sunday. The […]
Everyone’s hopes for a lower death toll in Kentucky came true on Sunday night as the candle factory—where 110 workers were working an overnight shift on Friday as a deadly twister hit—announced that it has been able to reach 90 survivors. The company’s HR staff worked through the night Saturday into Sunday to call the […]
