At BAE factory, Ukraine war fuels munitions output
At a munitions factory in northeast England run by BAE Systems, production is running at full speed thanks to the war in Ukraine and an increasingly dark outlook for geopolitics.…
Can factory chicken really help save the climate?
Stephane Dahirel doesn’t exactly say eat chicken and save the planet, but that is what he’s hinting at as he opens a shed door on his intensive farm in Brittany,…
Gas rationing risk means French yoghurt factory faces sour future
Tanker trucks filled with milk collected from across northern France waited in line to unload their precious cargo at one of the country’s biggest yoghurt factories on a recent morning,…
Factory on fire
AT 9:30am, on Aug 27, 2021, a fire erupted in the BM Luggage (bag) Industry (BLI) in Korangi, Karachi. Eighteen workers were burnt to death, with many injured. This is not…
Ordinance factory
OF late, there has been an uptick in the hearing of constitutional cases concerning the ordinance-making power of the president. Every now and then, ordinances enacted by the president are…
Resetting factory settings?
Last week, a versatile group of businessmen met with army chief in a five-and-a-half-hour long meeting. The GHQ’s message was clear – the present government will complete its tenure so…
Trump-Cook ‘bromance’ culminates with visit to Apple factory
President Donald Trump’s visit to Apple’s Texas manufacturing plant represents a truce in the White House war on Silicon Valley and an unlikely “bromance” with chief executive Tim Cook. The…
Manufacturing migration: Trade spat shifts business from ‘Factory of the World’
From socks and sneakers to washing machines and watches, Asian countries are hoping the US-China trade war will permanently boost manufacturing as brands dodge the row by choosing cheaper locations…
The holy-cow factory
Somewhere in this land of ours, there must be a prodigious factory dedicated to manufacturing holy cows. How else do you explain the endless supply of this product throughout our…
CoAS, not factory manager
In 1975, PM Zulfikar Ali Bhutto renamed the Commander-in-Chief (C-in-C), the Army's Head, as Chief of Army Staff (CoAS), subordinate to the mainly created Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee…
