Posts Tagged ‘Bayer’

No Foreign Business Boom in China

Sunday, November 1, 2009 18:25 By GSerrano

Foreign business investors are finding it still difficult to ever do business in China, in spite of the hope that it is China that will pull the world out of the recession.
Foreign business isn’t exactly booming in China. “China accounts for less than 2% of the global sales of drugs giants such as Pfizer, AstraZeneca [...]

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Brazil: booming sugarcane ethanol sector means rise in slave labor

Saturday, May 2, 2009 23:38 By GSerrano

The international economic crisis could harm relations between Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and the country’s social movements that expect him to carry out land reform. Organizations like the Movement of Landless Rural Workers (MST) and the Pastoral Land Commission (CPT), linked to the Catholic Church, allege that much of the resources in [...]

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