Business -- mercurynews.com
HANOI, Vietnam (AP) - More than 10,000 workers walked off the job at a South Korean plant that makes shoes for Nike, demanding higher pay to keep pace with rising prices in Vietnam, officials said Thursday.
Full print edition -- economist.com
A profound sense of disconnection is the key to understanding South Africa's enigmatic and controversial president, as a long-awaited biography makes clear AS THE African National Congress (ANC) prepares later this month to elect the man who will lead it for the next five years, there is more interest than ever in Thabo Mbeki. Barred from running in 2009 for a third term as South Africa's president, Mr Mbeki, who is also the current head of the ANC, is one of the front-runners for re-election to the top party job. However, after 13 years in power--first as Nelson Mandela's deputy before succeeding him in 1999--the president has come to be respected or loathed, but hardly ever loved. Even among his closest followers, Mr Mbeki remains an enigma. Some consider him to be a cool-headed and visionary moderniser, others a scheming centraliser who will not tolerate dissent. ...