Gap says probed child labor allegation at India facility
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GAP Inc said on Sunday it launched an investigation after it was told earlier this week about an allegation of child labor at a factory in India that was working on one product for GapKids.
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Low-cost British clothing retailer Asda, owned by US giant Wal-Mart, has launched an investigation into allegations that its production facilities in Bangladesh were abusing the rights of their workers, The Guardian reported on Monday.
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A Chinese company making products for the Beijing Olympics admits using child workers, despite initial denials.
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China has arrested two labor bureau officials for their alleged links to slave labor in brick kilns, amid reports Friday that kiln bosses were hiding child laborers and charging ransoms for their release.
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(InfoWorld) - Indiaâs National Association of Software and Service Companies (Nasscom) has asked U.K. broadcaster Channel Four Television to provide information from a news documentary that it plans to air Thursday evening about alleged data theft in India. Channel 4's "Dispatches" program will feature the results of a sting operation in which an undercover reporter was offered credit card information for customers of U.K. banks that have outsourced processing work to India. The men offering the information claim to have got it from staff at Indian call centers and business process outsourcing (BPO) operations, according to newspaper reports. Acting through a law firm, Nasscom has asked Channel 4 to provide it with details of the allegations it plans to air, together with evidence and any other supporting documentation, Nasscom said. It asked the broadcaster to cooperate "immediately, fully and wholeheartedlyâ with Indian authorities, to help them prosecute the alleged data thieves in India. As of late Monday in India, Channel 4 had refused to provide the information, according to Nasscom. Several sting operations by newspapers and TV channels have attempted to expose faults in the Indian call center and business process outsourcing (BPO) industries. Last year the U.K. tabloidÂ The Sun reportedÂ that its undercover reporter was sold secret information on 1,000 bank accounts by an employee of a call center in Delhi. Indian police said theyÂ could not make an arrestÂ unless a formal complaint was made by the cell centers companies involved, the banks or their customers. Some of the banks named in the report said their data had not been compromised. Nasscom's president, Kiran Karnik, accused such sting operations of goading people into committing crimes that otherwise might not have been committed. Sting operations like the one by Channel 4 sometimes go beyond uncovering wrongdoing and actually induce crimes that are then recorded and aired, he said in a statement Monday. In this case, one of the alleged criminals has said that the data he offered for sale was fake, according to Karnik. India has had its share of data theft cases, however. Earlier this year, an Indian back-office and customer support operation of the British bank HSBC Bank PLC complained that an employee had stolen confidential data, and used it to defraud 20 of the bank's customers in London to the tune of Â£233,000 ($425,000). The employee has been prosecuted by Indian police. HSBC described the incident as a one-off. Sunil Mehta, vice president of Nasscom, argued that the incidence of data theft and data privacy breaches is lower in India than in the U.K. and the U.S.
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The United Nations is investigating  allegations that Indian peacekeepers in Congo traded food and  even military intelligence with Rwandan Hutu rebels in return  for gold, U.N. officials said on Friday.
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Tesco and Asda say they are looking into allegations of employee abuse at suppliers' factories in Bangladesh.
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Chiron Corp. is being investigated by the US Justice Department over the suspension of its flu vaccine factory in the UK because of contamination, the company said in a regulatory filing.
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Child labor is a daily fact of life in China, experts say, and one that the government, preoccupied with economic growth, has traditionally turned a blind eye to.
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China, rocked by a brick kiln child slavery scandal, plans to set up a national panel to stop human trafficking, aimed at protecting women and children from forced labor and prostitution, state media reported on Tuesday.
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DaimlerChrysler AG said Thursday it had been notified that it was under investigation by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission over alleged violations of a federal anti-bribery statute after a fired employee complained to labor officials.
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The Indian government is investigating reports that blood samples that could be contaminated with the human form of mad cow disease had entered the country from Britain, a top official said on Tuesday.
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US clothing retailer Gap on Sunday withdrew from sale garments that were allegedly produced by Indian child labour, a British newspaper reported after conducting an undercover expose.
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Human Rights Watch on the frontlines of the child labor battle.
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A depot allegedly linked with "contaminated" fuel launches an investigation into whether it is to blame.
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MALEGAON, India  - Indian police said on Sunday   they were questioning several people in connection with blasts   that killed 32 people in a western town and were investigating   possible links with train bombings in Mumbai in July.
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India will survey the shuttered Union Carbide plant in Bhopal where the world&#39;s worst industrial accident occurred 20 years ago Friday, the BBC reported.