LONDON (Reuters) - Britain has leapfrogged Australia to become the world's second most desirable location for professionals looking to live and work abroad, trailing only the United States, a survey found on Wednesday. Worries about Britain'... [Full Article]
BERLIN (AP) - A union representing workers at Amazon in Germany says members are striking in a push for higher wages from the online retailer. (Source: Associated Press)... [Full Article]
BEIJING (AP) - Police in China frequently beat, torture and arbitrarily detain suspected sex workers, often with little or no evidence that they engaged in prostitution, Human Rights Watch said in a report Tuesday calling on the government to discipl... [Full Article]
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) - Bangladesh has agreed to allow garment workers to form trade unions in their factories without prior permission of the owners. (Source: Associated Press)... [Full Article]
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) - Bangladesh's government plans to raise the minimum wage for garment workers after the deaths of more than 1,100 people in the collapse of a factory building focused attention on the textile industry's dismal pay and... [Full Article]
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) - Bangladesh's government plans to raise the minimum wage for garment workers, a Cabinet minister said Sunday, after the deaths of more than 1,100 people in the collapse of a factory building focused international attentio... [Full Article]
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) - A woman buried in the wreckage of a collapsed garment factory building for 17 days was rescued Friday, a miraculous moment set against a scene of unimaginable horror where the death toll is more than 1,000 and still rising. (... [Full Article]
Workers really don't want to be friends with their bosses … at least on Facebook. New research has found that workers say they have suspended their accounts or left Facebook altogether to avoid being friended by a boss on the social network. (Sourc... [Full Article]
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - Seoul said Friday that it has decided to withdraw the roughly 175 South Koreans still at a jointly run factory complex in North Korea, raising a major question about the survival of the last symbol of inter-Korean cooperatio... [Full Article]
By Laura Noonan and Sinead Cruise LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's financial regulator has blocked just 30 out of a possible 227,000 applications to the sector's most risk-sensitive jobs in the six years since the banking crisis erupted. New fi... [Full Article]