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Globalisation has brought us all many benefits and not a few curses. Which will the biggest mining-commodities merger in history bring us?
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Walmart will not join a group of European retailers in a pledge for higher safety standards and puts forward its own safety plan. But Channel 4 News hears Walmart is merely “accepting the status quo”.
Residents are warned to stay indoors and not to touch any debris amid a feared asbestos risk after an explosion at a derelict factory in Belper.
A woman buried in the wreckage of the collapsed garment factory building in Bangladesh for 17 days, says she thought she would never see daylight again.
At least eight people die at a fire in a garment factory in the Bangladeshi capital, Dhaka, as officials confirm that last month’s factory collapse has killed 912 people.
Rescuers battling to free survivors from the rubble in Dhaka are forced to stop as smoke pours from the shattered concrete.
Two factory bosses and two engineers are arrested in Bangladesh after the collapse of a low-cost garment factory killed 352 earlier this week, with around 900 people still missing.
Bosses at the Primark clothing chain say they are “shocked and saddened” as 96 people are killed and hundreds injured in an eight-storey building in Bangladesh containing garment suppliers.
Horsemeat has been found in a range of ready-meals – from “beef” burger to bolognese. But where did it come from, and how did it get there? Channel 4 News untangles the frozen-food chain.
As austerity measures are extended, Jon Snow reports on a Manchester factory which is bucking the downturn, transferring manufacturing back from China and now employing 40 local people.
Fire sweeps through a garment factory on the outskirts of Bangladesh’s capital killing more than 100 people, in the country’s worst-ever factory blaze.
Globalisation has brought us all many benefits and not a few curses. Which will the biggest mining-commodities merger in history bring us?
Devastating factory fires in two of Pakistan’s biggest cities have killed 314 people. Many lost their lives because they could not escape the blazes in buildings without basic safety features.
BMW is investing a further £250m in its three Mini factories in the UK, safeguarding thousands of jobs, the firm announces.
As independent inspectors begin assessing workers’ rights at Apple’s Chinese factories, one analyst tells Channel 4 News that consumers are “not willing to pay the price” for ethically made goods.
As the new chief inspector of schools outlines plans to shake up how schools are inspected, Channel 4 News asks whether the changes will make it any easier for parents choosing schools.