At the Master Lock plant in Milwaukee, Pres. Obama reminisces about high school and contemplates his daughters' future.
The company that owns Victoria's Secret vowed a full investigation Thursday after a report said cotton used in some of its products is grown using child labor.
Sierra Leone hopes to once again bear fruit - with the help of juice.
Chid Liberty's family business high-rise was corrupted into a site of conflict, mass graves and executions during Liberia's fourteen-year civil war.
Liberia suffers from an 80% jobless rate. CNN?s Christian Purefoy reports on how women use other skills for employment.
"Oh, yes!" cries Bethlehem Alemu, the dynamic founder and owner of SoleRebels, a game-changing shoe company in the heart of Addis Ababa, the ancient capital of Ethiopia.
Ethiopian designer Bethlehem Alemu founded SoleRebels, handmade footwear that creates jobs for people from her village.
After a year with the Peace Corps in Kenya, husband and wife team Kevin Ward and Renice Jones returned to the U.S. with a business idea: import Kenyan crafts and provide artisans with an affluent new market for their wares.
Catherine Conway mixes business with passion. Her business is a small grocery shop in central London, and through it, she's working to change the way people behave when they shop.
CNN's Phil Black finds out if consumers in London are prepared to pay more for green goods and services.
In yesterday's settlement of AMD's worldwide antitrust claims against Intel, Intel agreed to pay $1.25 billion to AMD. In addition, the two companies renewed a longstanding patent cross-licensing deal, but with Intel agreeing to delete language from it that -- as Intel interpreted it -- was restricting AMD's ability to outsource fabrication of its semiconductors to nonsubsidiaries.
While America reels from the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression, it is time that we take a deeper look at the root causes of our current predicament.
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South Korea has long enjoyed some of the fastest and most widely available broadband Internet access on the planet. Top online gamers are bona-fide TV celebrities, and long before MySpace, there was South Korea's Cyworld, a social networking site launched back in 1999.
Antitrust investigators in South Korea have wrapped up a two-year probe into Intel Corp.'s activities in the country, the company said Tuesday.
Last week's abrupt 180-degree turn in U.S.-China trade policy is stirring up plenty of concern - and confusion - on either side of the globe.
Fair trade is a hit with coffee drinkers. By guaranteeing a living wage to their Third World growers, sellers of fair-trade-certified java are growing revenue by an average 70 percent a year, not t...
To produce a pound of organic sun-dried coffee, farmers in the southern Ethiopian village of Fero spread six pounds of ripe, red coffee cherries onto pallets near their fields. They sun the fruit f...
Fair trade is a hit with coffee drinkers. By guaranteeing a living wage to their Third World growers, sellers of fair-trade-certified java are growing revenue by an average 70% a year, not to menti...
The World Trade Organization (WTO) flipped its stance in the longstanding lumber dispute between the United States and Canada and ruled that the U.S. violated international free trade laws by imposing "anti-dumping" duties on Canadian lumber imports.
The Bush administration is trying to push the Central American Free Trade Agreement through Congress quickly and quietly.
The Southern Democrat landed yesterday in New York, where he'll spend part of every day this weekend. He arrived there armed with a Super Tuesday game plan, some fair-trade talking points and a joke about Alex Rodriguez, designed to endear him to die-hard Yankees fans.
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In October 1996, with the presidential election days away, President Clinton won a small victory: He got Mexico to raise the price it charges Americans for tomatoes. In November 1997, Clinton suffe...
The auto executives, politicians, and consumers working themselves into an anti-Japan frenzy ought to put down the sword and pick up the mirror. No question, Japan's import barriers to goods such a...
AFTER DECADES of we're-indisputably-above-it-all behavior, Citicorp was forced to concede last month that it isn't. The company joined the ranks of other backpedaling financial services organizatio...
IF A MAN'S DEMEANOR were enough to determine his world, Thomas Labrecque's universe would be an orderly, disciplined place. Snug in his office in a Wall Street skyscraper, the president of Chase Ma...
-- CARS: Braking. The great consumer pullback has already made itself felt in Detroit. Though light truck sales edged up to five million units in 1987, passenger cars were down 12% from a record 11...
Is it a trick or a treat for shareholders? Bank of New York, now trying to take over Irving Bank Corp., has proposed a bit of accounting artistry that should reassure anyone who fears bankers lack ...
The Reagan Administration's apparent new willingness to force down the dollar and vigorously enforce U.S. laws against unfair trade has given congressional moderates a much needed counter to propos...
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