At least eleven 15-year-old children were discovered to be working last year in three factories which supply Apple.
The company did not name the offending factories, or say where they were based, but the majority of its goods are assembled in China.
Apple also has factories working for it in Taiwan, Singapore, the Philippines, Malaysia, Thailand, the [...]
Maldives is a small country comprising of 1191 tiny islands in the Indian Ocean. The population of Maldives is around 300,000 excluding 100,000 workers who are not Maldivians. The Maldivian people are predominately Sunni Muslims.
US interests in Maldives has brought the country in the limelight. US Ambassador to Maldives, Robert Blake who is presently doing [...]
Taiwan’s Computex conference has been quietly generating some interesting news on the future of netbooks and laptops.
For a peek into the crystal ball of mobile computing, we take a look at what has been announced in Taipei, Taiwan, this week.
Mobile-phone-based netbooks are growing
‘Smartbooks’, as described by companies such as Qualcomm, seem to be this year’s [...]
Sharing a 4000 kilometre-long disputed border with China and having suffered a military attack from China in 1962, India cannot but be highly concerned about the aggressive military development in its immediate environment. China Defence White Paper – 2008 (hereafter referred to as Paper – 08) have some grave messages for its Asian neighbours which [...]
