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Published by EU Observer | By Andrew Rettman | Tuesday, October 3, 2006

European firms such as AugustaWestland and Eurocopter are supplying components for Chinese combat helicopters via networks of global subsidiaries and re-exporters despite the EU's 17-year old China arms embargo, NGOs have warned.

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Published by The Guardian (UK) | By David Pallister | Monday, October 2, 2006

A damning report on Mittal Steel's acquisition of an impoverished African country's iron ore reserves is published today, accusing the world's largest steelmaker of offering an inequitable "raw deal" that has created an unaccountable "state within a state".

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Published by The New York Times | By Steven Greenhouse and Michael Barbaro | Monday, October 2, 2006

Wal-Mart, the nation's largest private employer, is pushing to create a cheaper, more flexible work force by capping wages, using more part-time workers and scheduling more workers on nights and weekends.

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Published by Inter Press News Service (IPS) | By Stephen Leahy | Friday, September 29, 2006

Activists want the Canadian government to impose mandatory human rights and environmental standards on Canadian mining and oil companies operating in Latin America and other developing regions.

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Published by Inter Press News Service (IPS) | By Stephen Leahy | Friday, September 29, 2006

Civil society activists want the Canadian government to impose mandatory human rights and environmental standards on Canadian mining and oil companies operating in Latin America and other developing regions.

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Published by The New York Times | By James Glanz | Thursday, September 28, 2006

In a sweeping new assessment of reconstruction failures in Iraq, a federal inspector told Congress on Thursday that 13 of 14 major projects built by the American contractor Parsons that were examined by his agency were substandard, with construction deficiencies and other serious problems.

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Published by Associated Press | By Rebecca Santana | Wednesday, September 27, 2006

A public relations company that participated in a controversial U.S. military program that paid Iraqi newspapers for stories favorable to coalition forces has been awarded another multimillion-dollar media contract with American forces in Iraq.

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Published by The Washington Post | By Ylan Q. Mui and Amy Joyce | Wednesday, September 27, 2006

Wal-Mart Stores Inc. is scaling back the health-care plans available to new employees, sparking fresh criticism over whether the giant retailer is providing adequate coverage to its workers.

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