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Glasgow last month killing ten people. Now on BBC News all the | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
latest business news live from Singapore. | :00:00. | :00:20. | |
Apple comes under scrutiny in relation to the labour practices of | :00:21. | :00:27. | |
its suppliers in Asia. The Hobbit hype and its impact on various | :00:28. | :00:40. | |
industries. We begin with US technology giant Apple. It has | :00:41. | :00:44. | |
revealed that it sent medical experts to China last month to | :00:45. | :00:52. | |
investigate deaths at one of its suppliers. The deaths occurred at a | :00:53. | :00:59. | |
facility in Shanghai. There have been four reported deaths | :01:00. | :01:08. | |
amongst packet from staff in recent months. No suggestion that these | :01:09. | :01:13. | |
people died on the production line itself, and of course this is a very | :01:14. | :01:17. | |
large workforce we are talking about, 100,000 people. Apple has | :01:18. | :01:26. | |
sent medical experts to investigate these deaths. The company says they | :01:27. | :01:31. | |
have not found any evidence to link to working conditions there, but | :01:32. | :01:34. | |
they realised that this will be of little comfort to families have lost | :01:35. | :01:38. | |
their loved ones. One of the employees reported to have died this | :01:39. | :01:44. | |
year was 15 years old. That is below the legal working age in China. | :01:45. | :01:51. | |
Pegatron say that he obtains the job by providing fake identification, | :01:52. | :01:56. | |
using the identification of an older relative. He is said to have died of | :01:57. | :02:00. | |
pneumonia, and the company says it is very unlikely to be at related to | :02:01. | :02:05. | |
the conditions at work. This is not the first time that | :02:06. | :02:14. | |
Apple suppliers have come under scrutiny. Is there anything they can | :02:15. | :02:16. | |
do, have they done anything in response? | :02:17. | :02:19. | |
They have done a lot to try and audit working conditions. They've | :02:20. | :02:28. | |
been working to allow for a labour organisations access to its plants | :02:29. | :02:30. | |
and employs compliance officers to make sure that workers work no more | :02:31. | :02:36. | |
than a 60 hour week maximum. The other problem that faces of course | :02:37. | :02:42. | |
is that when we speak to some of those workers they say they would | :02:43. | :02:48. | |
like to work more than 60 hours. Politicians in Australia are | :02:49. | :02:51. | |
scrambling to save what is left of the country 's car industry. Earlier | :02:52. | :02:54. | |
this week old and became another major car manufacturer to announce | :02:55. | :03:02. | |
it will shut down its Australian line, following a similar | :03:03. | :03:04. | |
announcement from Ford earlier this year. That puts the focus squarely | :03:05. | :03:08. | |
on the remaining manufacturer, Toyota. And the workers involved in | :03:09. | :03:15. | |
the car component industry. Just some of the thousands of | :03:16. | :03:18. | |
workers who make cars in Australia and a part of what Holden is calling | :03:19. | :03:23. | |
a perfect storm. High costs, a small domestic market and a strong local | :03:24. | :03:27. | |
currency that makes the end product and expensive exporter. So despite | :03:28. | :03:30. | |
successive Australian governments spending billions of dollars | :03:31. | :03:33. | |
supporting the sector, its future has become increasingly clouded. We | :03:34. | :03:42. | |
saw we had a future beyond 2017, but then, bang. Nearly 3000 workers will | :03:43. | :03:48. | |
lose their jobs when Holden shuts down production in four years time. | :03:49. | :03:54. | |
The government is promising to help. We will not let these people down, | :03:55. | :03:58. | |
but our challenge is to get them from one job to another job and we | :03:59. | :04:04. | |
will not fail. But it's what is left of the car industry that is now in | :04:05. | :04:08. | |
the spotlight. That means to enter as the component businesses that | :04:09. | :04:13. | |
make the 30,000 separate parts that go into every vehicle. The | :04:14. | :04:16. | |
Australian component sector alone employs 33,000 workers and for those | :04:17. | :04:23. | |
suppliers, big and small, volume is key. Many have already spent years | :04:24. | :04:26. | |
trying to diversify with mixed success. They need domestic sales | :04:27. | :04:34. | |
base. Even if stays, will one automaker be enough to keep them | :04:35. | :04:39. | |
employed? There are still a few years before the last Holden and | :04:40. | :04:43. | |
Ford rolled off Australian production lines. Time is now off | :04:44. | :04:55. | |
the essence -- of. The union is consulting workers on ways to rally | :04:56. | :04:59. | |
public support. I spoke to a representative of the Australian | :05:00. | :05:01. | |
Manufacturing workers union and asked about his expectations of | :05:02. | :05:08. | |
public support. We need to talk to our members and ensure they are | :05:09. | :05:11. | |
happy with what we are doing. Those discussions are taking place today. | :05:12. | :05:15. | |
We are also looking to hold public rallies on Monday in Adelaide and | :05:16. | :05:21. | |
Melbourne and obviously also we will be seeking to extend the activity | :05:22. | :05:25. | |
well beyond the Christmas period. You might be familiar with the fact | :05:26. | :05:28. | |
that Australia more or less closes down for three weeks around | :05:29. | :05:32. | |
Christmas. This is a campaign that will go on for a long time. How | :05:33. | :05:38. | |
important is the support in saving the auto industry and its workers? | :05:39. | :05:44. | |
The problem we have is that the current Liberal National party | :05:45. | :05:47. | |
government basically has no idea about industry policy. The concerns | :05:48. | :05:52. | |
we have are that Holden had made it very clear that they needed to be | :05:53. | :05:57. | |
making decisions by about this time regarding their future investment | :05:58. | :05:59. | |
strategies and unfortunately this government failed to deliver. On | :06:00. | :06:05. | |
Tuesday Joe Hockey, the Treasurer, ethically Derek Holden to close down | :06:06. | :06:10. | |
and unfortunately his blast has been called. -- bluff. Ford plans to hire | :06:11. | :06:25. | |
a 6000 employees in Asia and around 5000 in the United States. They are | :06:26. | :06:31. | |
looking to open a third facility in Brazil and two new factories in | :06:32. | :06:35. | |
China next year. Ford sales in the mainland have increased by 50% this | :06:36. | :06:39. | |
year. For more on that story and other business headlines from around | :06:40. | :06:47. | |
the world, visit our website. The latest film in the Hobbit trilogy | :06:48. | :06:50. | |
has opened at cinemas across Asia this week. It premiers in India, | :06:51. | :07:01. | |
Indonesia and the US. They expect to rake in millions of dollars in | :07:02. | :07:08. | |
ticket sales. The Hobbit brand is creating immense | :07:09. | :07:11. | |
opportunities for thousands of businesses. The first film made $84 | :07:12. | :07:17. | |
million at the box office on its US debut weekend last year. Now its | :07:18. | :07:22. | |
producers are hoping the second will smash those sales. It's not just the | :07:23. | :07:29. | |
filmmakers who are benefiting. Nearly 3000 New Zealand firms are | :07:30. | :07:36. | |
cashing in. Most of them are in the film industry. This medical scanner | :07:37. | :07:43. | |
was created in Christchurch and is based on the 3-D cameras used to | :07:44. | :07:47. | |
film the Hobbit. It is now being used at St Luke's Hospital in | :07:48. | :07:51. | |
Singapore to help patients like this one. The hospital is the first in | :07:52. | :07:55. | |
Asia to use the cutting-edge technology which takes 3-D | :07:56. | :07:59. | |
photographs to track the healing process. Until now, medical staff | :08:00. | :08:04. | |
used tracing paper and Reuters to measure the depth of loans to | :08:05. | :08:07. | |
predict how long they would take the heel. -- to heal. This is better | :08:08. | :08:24. | |
practice for infection control. Perhaps the most obvious winner is | :08:25. | :08:29. | |
the tourism industry. The government invested $10 million in this | :08:30. | :08:32. | |
advertising campaign, which has helped to inject $450 million into | :08:33. | :08:38. | |
its economy. It is 100% Middle Earth, 100% New Zealand, a slogan | :08:39. | :08:43. | |
aimed at capturing people 's fascination with the film. It's big | :08:44. | :08:50. | |
business for New Zealand. It is not destroying crowd at cinemas across | :08:51. | :08:53. | |
the globe at creating a buzz about New Zealand which has led to a 10% | :08:54. | :08:56. | |
rise in the number of foreign tourists this year. One in 12 said | :08:57. | :09:02. | |
the Hobbit was the reason for their visit. With visitors numbers up, Air | :09:03. | :09:10. | |
New Zealand has painted its plans with characters from the film. On | :09:11. | :09:15. | |
the surface it is movie about the Hobbit is running around, but for a | :09:16. | :09:18. | |
country like New Zealand is so much more. Technology, filming in New | :09:19. | :09:23. | |
Zealand, tourism, it is all about creating awareness and putting New | :09:24. | :09:25. | |
Zealand out there as a credible player in those spaces. That is why | :09:26. | :09:32. | |
Hobbit hype has many companies getting creative to talk and fans | :09:33. | :09:37. | |
from their shires. In related news, Harvey and Bob | :09:38. | :09:43. | |
Weinstein have filed a lawsuit against Warner Brothers, claiming | :09:44. | :09:47. | |
they are owed a share of the profits from the second and third Hobbit | :09:48. | :09:52. | |
films. They are seeking $75 million in damages, saying the sale of the | :09:53. | :10:02. | |
Hobbit in 1998 applies to all sequels. The US House of | :10:03. | :10:09. | |
Representatives has approved a two-year budget initiative designed | :10:10. | :10:18. | |
to prevent another of -- government shutdown. John Boehner has urged | :10:19. | :10:25. | |
sceptical conservatives to back the compromise. With that we end this | :10:26. | :10:31. | |
edition of the Asian business report. Thank you for investing your | :10:32. | :10:38. | |
time with us. The top stories this hour. North | :10:39. | :10:42. | |
Korea says it has executed Jang Sung-taek, the uncle of leader Kim | :10:43. | :10:45. | |
Jong-un, branding him "worse than a dog". The sign-language interpreter | :10:46. | :10:48. | |
at Nelson Mandela's memorial has said he's a schizophrenic with a | :10:49. | :10:51. | |
violent past - South Africa insists there was no security risk. | :10:52. | :11:01. | |
Emergency air cover across the UK is being restored after twenty two | :11:02. | :11:03. | |
helicopters, including air ambulances | :11:04. | :11:04. |