May 8, 2022

Chaos at Apple supplier Quanta shows strains of Shanghai COVID lockdown

Published by Reuters SHANGHAI (Reuters) – Quanta Shanghai Manufacturing City would seem like an ideal site to implement China’s “closed-loop” management system to prevent the spread of COVID that requires staff to live and work on-site in a secure bubble. Sprawled over land the size of 20 football fields, the

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What Pushed Apple Factory Workers to Riot?

Published by The Street By Kirk O’Neil Workers at a Shanghai technology factory crashed through barriers erected to keep them from leaving the plant and struggled with guards trying to keep them inside. A resurgence of a Covid-19 outbreak in China in March led to a lockdown in the nation’s

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Taiwan donates multimedia classroom equipment to Saint Lucia

Taiwan’s embassy in Saint Lucia recently donated equipment for two multimedia classrooms, to help strengthen basic education and digital literacy in the Caribbean island nation.At a ceremony Friday, Taiwan Ambassador Peter Chen (???) presented the firs…

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Rallies held in Taiwanese cities to show support for Ukraine

Ukrainian nationals and their supporters held “Toward Victory” rallies in Taipei, Hsinchu, and Taichung on Sunday to show solidarity with Ukraine, as Russia’s invasion of the country enters its third month.At the rally held in front of Liberty Square a…

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