Following up on Jason’s post last week about China and pollution, here is a video from the fake (but deadpan funny) Onion News Network (nice article about them in the NY Times today, I’ve subscribed to their video podcast from…
By Jason Turgeon: China’s everywhere in the news these days. It seems like you can’t open a newspaper (or a feed reader) without reading an article about the summer Olympics, its booming economy, the situation in Tibet, and growing unease…
I know this sounds like the stuff of urban legend, but I had someone tell me this story today, someone with no real interest in exaggerating, so I would tend to believe it. He was Canadian-born, but recently became a…
Sometimes, I have a collection of news stories or links that I either don’t have time to blog about, assume you don’t have time to read about, or don’t really merit a full blog post. So my “WIP” of “draft”…
Chinese Refrigerator Maker Finds U.S. Chilly – WSJ.com: Here’s another case of where your bosses should NOT take manufacturing management practices from the WSJ. In an article about the Chinese refrigerator maker Haier and its founder, Zhang Ruimin: “He developed…
IndustryWeek : Thought Leaders — Lean On Me (Full Transcript)IndustryWeek : Thought Leaders — Lean On Me (Print Version) Other blogs, including Gemba Panta Rei have already linked to this, but I’ll also post it with a few different highlights.…
by Mike Lopez All these lead paint toy scandals are only the beginning. On July 12, 2007, Businessweek ran a story, “Made in China: Faulty Tires.” This story foreshadowed the bloodbath to come. For every scandal, we can expect several high…
LEAD SINKS SPONGEBOB CHINA GOODS Sung to the TV theme… parody words by Mark Graban “Who’s covered in lead and lives under the sea?Spongebob! Squarepants! Whose China-made goods may endanger your kids?Spongebob! Squarepants! If dangerous journals be something you wishSpongebob!…
From today’s USA Today, on the heels of the recent bad quality from China news, which includes: Baby bibs with lead found at Wal-Mart Tainted seafood “Chemical pajamas” Anyway, click on the cartoon for a larger view. Maybe we need…
China’s Chery Car: Safe At Any Speed For U.S. Market? – CNBC.com I had a number of readers email me this crash test video of a Chinese car sold in the Russia market. One reader asked what Chrysler was thinking…
Mattel is the latest victim in the “poison products from China” series (the “poison train,” as The Consumerist blog calls it). Victim is absolutely the wrong word to use, considering Mattel chose to source from China and admitted their own…
In my morning reading yesterday, I was pleasantly surprised to see the phrase “root cause” in two stories I’ve written about here: Preventable Medical Errors (free, Modesto Bee) Deadly Products from China ($$, WSJ) I have a post I’ve written,…
