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Workers packing ice-skating shoes at a manufacturing factory in the ice and snow sports equipment industry park in Zhangjiakou, in northwestern China's Hebei province, Thursday, July 15, 2021. 

Empty shelves for the holidays? Chinese suppliers face ambiguous global supply chain amid pandemic restrictions

Business, Economics and Jobs

Every year around this time, factories in China are finishing up orders and sending them across the world to arrive in time for the holiday shopping season. But this year, they may run out of time.

Out of the box housing

Business, Economics and Jobs

Keith Tantlinger, and How Modern Shipping Containers Changed the Economy

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Out of the Box Housing

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Out of the Box, Housing

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Scotch, spray bottles, and a GPS unit

Environment

Equipped with GPS, a humble shipping container reveals the story of the global economy. Jeremy Hillman, the business and economics editor for the BBC, discusses the BBC Box’s contents and travels. He joins John and Adaora from London.

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Out of the box, housing

Environment

The increasing push to reuse materials has given one entrepreneur overnight success he says was 20 years in the making. Living on Earth’s Ingrid Lobet reports on a company that turns steel cargo shipping containers into housing.

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