Affected by the economic crisis, DSM will further lay off 250 employees
Special chemical maker DSM CEO said in the Tuesday, DSM will further lay off 250 employees based on the previously announcement for 1,000 positions, if in the next few months, demand has no improvement, company would carry out further plan to cut down the spending.
Feike Sijbesma said the company originally planned in 2010 to reduce 125 million euros expenditure (162 million U.S. dollars).
The U.S. pig industry suffered the swine flu epidemic
With the increase of the swine flu epidemic, Russia, Ukraine, Kyrgyzstan and many other countries have banned imports from pork, pig-raising industry in Mexico and the United States, so that the U.S. pig industry has been caused a certain influence. To this end, the U.S. Trade Representative Tom Kirk and Minister of Agriculture issued a joint statement on the 28th that the United States food supply is safe, and called on trading partners, not to set trade barriers on U.S. products because of an outbreak of swine flu.
Swine flu in Mexico is more epidemic, suspected cases were found on four continents
Cordoba Minister of Health of Mexico on the 27th through the evening on national television announced, Mexico has newly added three cases of suspected cases of swine flu death, which has confirmed suspected swine flu death toll rose to 152 people.
At the same time, the press conference held in Cordoba, Mexico enountered 5.6 grade earthquake, obviously felt in the capital, Mexico City. This makes the people under the epidemic swine flu into a greater panic.
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