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• China transferred detained Uighurs to factories used by global brands – report

  01-03-2020 19:51
  
  At least 80,000 Uighurs working under ‘conditions that strongly suggest forced labour’, says Australian Strategic Policy InstituteAt least 80,000 Uighurs have been transferred from China’s Xinjiang province, some of them directly from detention centres, to factories across China that make goods for dozens of global brands, according to a report from the Canberra-based Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI).Using open-source public documents, satellite imagery, and media r
  
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• Waitrose staff to get lowest bonus in 67 years as profits fall

  01-03-2020 18:55
  
  John Lewis Partnership expected to pay 2% of salary after third year of difficulty
  John Lewis and Waitrose staff are to receive their lowest bonus in 67 years – if they get one at all – as the company is expected to reveal its third consecutive drop in annual profits.The independent retail analyst Nick Bubb predicted the John Lewis Partnership will on Thursday announce a bonus worth 2% of annual salary, which would be the lowest since the group skipped the payment in 1953.Continue re
  
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• Tractor Supply/hobby farms: field of dreams

  01-03-2020 06:00
  The Tennessee-based retailer has done well in harvesting dollars from the countryside
  
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