Portal:Current events/2011 August 1

Armed conflict and attacks

Business and economy
  • The HSBC bank announces plans to cut 5,000 jobs now and 25,000 by 2013. (Reuters)
  • Foxconn Technology, a computer assembler headquartered in Taiwan, plans to add one million robots to its plants over the next three years, according to a Reuters report. (Reuters)
  • BBC journalists stage another 24-hour strike in protest at planned redundancies. (Mail Online) (The Guardian)

Disasters

International relations

Politics