Tyson Foods Inc will close two U.S. chicken plants with almost 1,700 employees on May 12, the company said on Tuesday. The closures show the biggest U.S. meat company by sales is still trying to figure out how to improve its chicken business that has struggled for years. Tyson will …
Read More »Analysis: Airbus faces steep climb in ‘make or break’ delivery year
Airbus and U.S. rival Boeing were locked in a dead heat for deliveries for the first two months of the year, but the European planemaker has a tougher task to meet annual forecasts amid ongoing supply woes. Both groups delivered a total of 66 jets in January and February. But …
Read More »Thanh Hoa city set for 1st walking-only street
Thanh Hoa, the capital city of the province of the same name in central Vietnam, is considering designating a street walking-only to serve a nighttime public plaza. The People’s Committee said Monday the city Party Committee has agreed in principle with making Phan Chu Trinh a pedestrians-only street and Lam …
Read More »Thailand searches for missing radioactive cylinder
Thai authorities are scrambling to find a cylinder containing dangerous radioactive material that went missing from a power station, officials said Tuesday, warning of serious health risks from direct exposure. Staff at the coal-fired plant in Prachinburi Province, east of Bangkok, noticed the steel tube, 30 centimeters (12 inches) long …
Read More »Japan’s big firms set to offer biggest pay rises in decades
Big Japanese firms are set to offer the largest pay rises in a quarter century this year driven by inflation at 41-year high, in a sign that cash-rich firms may be warming to Prime Minister Fumio Kishida’s calls to boost consumption through higher wages. As annual labour talks dubbed “shunto”, …
Read More »Meta to cut 10,000 jobs in second round of layoffs
Facebook-parent Meta Platforms said on Tuesday it would cut 10,000 jobs, the first Big Tech company to announce a second round of mass layoffs as the industry braces for a deep economic downturn. Meta shares jumped 6% on the news. The widely anticipated job cuts are part of a wider …
Read More »Work set to resume in May for southern Vietnam’s longest expressway
Deputy Prime Minister Tran Hong Ha said Monday that all obstacles to the construction of the delayed Ben Luc-Long Thanh Expressway must be dealt with so construction can resume in May. Ha said that the project had fallen behind schedule for three years and nine months, and that since he …
Read More »Philippine police officer jailed for killing teens in rare drug war conviction
A Philippine police officer has been found guilty of killing two teenagers during former president Rodrigo Duterte’s drug war, court documents showed Tuesday, in a rare conviction of one of the crackdown’s enforcers. During his six-year term, which ended in June 2022, Duterte openly ordered police to shoot dead drug …
Read More »Indonesians seeking climate justice take aim at Swiss concrete giant
Sitting near a wall of stacked rocks, fisherman Mustagfirin looks out to sea from the tiny Indonesian island of Pari, wondering whether his home will exist for much longer. His battered wooden boat is anchored just offshore, where trees and statues that were once on the beach now sit partially …
Read More »Hanoi taxi ban on 5 downtown roads continues
Hanoi Taxi Association and the city transport department have agreed to extend a ban on taxis entering five downtown roads to ease congestion. They are banned from entering sections of Phu Doan Street between Trang Thi and Hang Bong and between Cau Giay and Xuan Thuy and a section of …
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