Electronics Watch is delighted to release the Electronics Watch Contractor Guidance, a detailed and comprehensive due diligence guide for ICT hardware contractors that sell products to public sector buyers. The Guidance is designed to help…
The passage of House Bill 6152 at the House of Representatives is a direct attack on wage and labor standards already set forth in the Labor Code, according to the Ecumenical Institute for Labor Education…
President Donald Trump announced on July 26, 2017 that Foxconn – a Taiwanese electronics giant – will build a $10 billion LCD display factory in Wisconsin. Trump claims the deal will bring manufacturing jobs and…
High-tech industrial park is planned for the border between Hong Kong and Shenzhen. The cooperative project will facilitate greater regional integration on a site which has historically been disputed by both sides. In January 2017,…
South Korean court has sentenced Lee Jae-yong, the acting vice-chairman of Samsung, to five years in prison. If convicted this would represent the longest prison sentence for any South Korean executive. Lee was jailed in February 2017 for crimes including offering…
Last month, over 70 students from the UK and Ireland congregated in Manchester for People & Planet’s annual Summer Training event – Power Shift: Training for Change. Supported by the Good Electronics Network, a day…
Foxconn has been responsible for some of the most reprehensible labor practices of the twenty-first century, but not only in China. Read this interesting article of Richard Maxwell and Toby Miller about this transnational Taiwanese…
Motherboard wrote: “We all know it’s not easy to repair a Samsung Galaxy S8. How is it possible this phone earned a “gold” rating from the nonprofit Green Electronics Council under its Electronic Product Environmental…
Toshiba will build new production lines at its main semiconductor memory plant to address a demand increase. Subsidiary Toshiba Memory foresees this increase in 2018 and will bear the entire cost of this planned 195…
The New York Times reported that Apple pulled down several VPN apps from its Chinese App Store. These apps are programs that allow iPhone users to bypass the Chinese government’s censorship apparatus. Apple’s silence may be tactical;…