Industrial relations

EU, China to hold ‘urgent’ talks on rare earth curbs

EU trade chief Maros Sefcovic has called China's export controls on rare earths "unjustified and harmful".

Trump offered to let detained Korean workers stay in US but most heading home

South Korean workers will leave the detention centre early on Sept 11 by bus.

Air Canada remains grounded as union defies order to get back to work amid cabin crew strike

FILE PHOTO: Demonstrators display placards while riding an escalator as Air Canada flight attendants said they will remain on strike and challenge a return-to-work order they called unconstitutional, defying a government decision to force them back to their duties, at Vancouver International Airport in Richmond, British Columbia, Canada, August 17, 2025. REUTERS/Chris Helgren/File Photo

Singapore, Vietnam break ground on joint industrial park, ink five pacts to deepen cooperation

PM Lawrence Wong (second from left) and his Vietnamese counterpart, Mr Phan Minh Chinh, at the groundbreaking ceremony for the Vietnam-Singapore Industrial Park in Thai Binh province. Also present is Foreign Minister Vivian Balakrishnan (left).

China Oct industrial profits narrow decline, but headwinds loom

Employees work on a shirt production line at a clothing factory in Suqian, in eastern China's Jiangsu province on November 22, 2024. (Photo by AFP) / China OUT

Canada rail workers union to challenge government decision to refer dispute to labour board

CN workers picket at the CPKC Toronto yard, after Canadian National Railway (CN) and Canadian Pacific Kansas City (CPKC) locked out workers following unsuccessful negotiation attempts with the Teamsters union, in Toronto, Ontario, Canada August 22, 2024. REUTERS/Carlos Osorio/File Photo

Canada moves to end rail shutdown quickly; CN, CPKC prepare to resume services

CN workers picket at the CPKC Toronto yard, after Canadian National Railway (CN) and Canadian Pacific Kansas City (CPKC) locked out workers following unsuccessful negotiation attempts with the Teamsters union, in Toronto, Ontario, Canada August 22, 2024. REUTERS/Carlos Osorio

Canada's WestJet cancels more flights after failing to reach agreement with union

People walk with their luggage as striking aircraft maintenance engineers and technical staff represented by the Aircraft Mechanics Fraternal Association union stand in a picket line against Westjet Airlines at Vancouver International Airport in Richmond, British Columbia, Canada June 29, 2024. REUTERS/Chris Helgren

Canada moves to push back start date for possible rail strike

FILE PHOTO: A Canadian National Railway (CN Rail) freight train remains halted while First Nations members of the Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory continue to block train tracks 2 km away as part of a protest against British Columbia's Coastal GasLink pipeline, in Tyendinaga, Ontario, Canada February 14, 2020. REUTERS/Chris Helgren/File Photo

Jostling for foreign investments: The era of easy money is over

That era of easy dealing appears to be fading, giving way to a new epoch marked by zero-sum nationalistic considerations.

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