Apple banishes harmful chemicals from factories – NRC Q

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What happened in ASIA!; while you slept? Our correspondents talk to you.

After a campaign Apple has decided two dangerous chemicals & euml, banishing one of its Chinese factories writes the BBC

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What happened in Asia while you slept? Our correspondents talk to you.

After a campaign, Apple has decided to banish two dangerous chemicals from its Chinese factories writes the BBC.

The chemicals, benzene and n-hexane, to cancer, cause nervous disorders and infertility. Apple was under pressure from activist groups China Labor Watch and Green America, in recent weeks the use of harmful substances were announced.

In response to the campaign, the company’s use of the chemicals in 22 factories prohibited. The factories for iPhones and iPads are mainly in China and employs about 500,000 people.

The action groups warn, however, that there still might be wrong. Upon the hundreds of suppliers Apple lots

Warren Buffet will ensure Asians

The American billionaire and investment guru Warren Buffet has quietly deposited in the Asian insurance market, reports The Wall Street Journal.

Buffet’s investment vehicle Berkshire Hathaway has many executives were bought out by other insurers and prepare according to the American newspaper business a big push for it.

Also another great American investor sees potential in the insurance market in Asia. Maurice Greenberg, the former chairman of the American insurer AIG, Starr and his company last month acquired a Chinese insurer.

According to an analyst at Moody’s is the simple explanation for the interest of the two tyconen that “the Asian insurance market lot of growth potential is.”

Paris syndrome on the rise among Chinese tourists

news agency Bloomberg writes about the rise of the Paris syndrome among Chinese tourists. Hundreds of thousands of Chinese tourists who annually visit the capital of France, experience spot that the city yet is not as romantic as in the movies.

Paris is dirty, sometimes dangerous, and buy an ice cream with a 500 euro note is usually not. The big reveal from Bloomberg is that the waiters moreover not speak English. Or that refuse to do.