The Trump administration announced an import ban on all cotton and tomato products from western China's Xinjiang region on Wednesday over allegations that they are made with forced labor from detained Uighur Muslims.
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NEW YORK, Jan 14 (Reuters) - Tech firms SAP and IBM said on Thursday they had redrawn their human resources policies after last year’s Black Lives Matter protests, improving recruitment and acting to address issues of race more openly in the workplace.
Executives from the two companies told the Reuters Next conference the social upheaval sparked by the killing of George Floyd by a U.S. policeman had spilled into the workplace, challenging prevailing ideas about workplace discrimination.
“We learned that we talked about diversity and inclusion in a broad sense, but we didn’t really talk enough and directly about race,” said Obed Louissaint, senior vice president, transformation and culture, at IBM.
ASML CEO Peter Wennink expects further antagonism between the United States and China over semiconductor technology, even as a new administration is set to take over in Washington, he told the Reuters Next conference on Thursday.
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WASHINGTON, Jan 13 (Reuters) - The United States is imposing a region-wide ban on all cotton and tomato products from China’s western Xinjiang region over allegations that they are made with forced labor from detained Uighur Muslims, U.S. Customs and Border Protection said on Wednesday.
The move, another step by the Trump Administration in its final days to impose stiff economic penalties on China, applies to raw fibers, apparel and textiles made from Xinjiang-grown cotton, as well as tomato-based food products and seeds from the region. The ban, knows as a withhold release order, also applies to products processed or manufactured in third countries, CBP officials told a news briefing. (Reporting by David Lawder, Editing by Franklin Paul)
By Nellie Peyton, Thomson Reuters Foundation
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Jan 11 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Adesola Akerele had just landed an internship at a television production company in London when the coronavirus hit and her dream job was gone.
But as the pandemic halted studies and wiped out employment opportunities for millions of young people around the world, the 23-year-old graduate found a silver lining - using the lockdown to launch her career as an independent screenwriter.
Akerele had always wanted to write about the experience of being Black in Britain, and as global anti-racism protests spread last year, she found people wanted to listen.