
Global report - August 23, 2017
Merck CEO quits Trump’s manufacturing council
The CEO of global pharma giant Merck, Kenneth Frazier, is resigning from President Donald Trump’s manufacturing council. The resignation came after a weekend of violence at a white-nationalist and neo-Nazi protest in Charlottesville, Virginia. The president did not explicitly condemn white supremacists. In a statement Frazier said: “America’s leaders must honor our fundamental values by […]