lays and touch screens. A Wintek spokesman said the company is still committed to expanding its existing facilities in the southern Chinese city of Dongguan and the province of Jiangsu, two traditional hubs for Chinese manufacturing. "To mitigate the impact from rising labor and rental costs, we are prod

First because of cheap labor which has become an international commodity and secondly do to automation. Case in point, is a mobile phone factory in Dongguan, China, that has replaced most of its workers with robots, it witnessed a spectacular rise in productivity. The factory used to be run by 650 employ

real crackdown on ivory poaching. Just last year, the Chinese government destroyed an estimated 6 tons of confiscated elephant ivory in the city of Dongguan near Guangzhou. The act represented the largest government embargo on the ivory market to date. The embargo came on the tails of WildAid Inc.'s cons