Maggie Fox just wanted a pair of scissors that cut – properly – without tearing, jamming and pinching. Fed up with cheap, ugly, mass-market scissors that sever nothing but nerves, the Toronto ...

Workers in the Indian city of Meerut toil away in dangerous workshops to make a simple household item: scissors. But the centuries-old industry is struggling to survive, because cheaper scissors from ...

All businesses face their ups and downs along the way to success. But the Hangzhou Zhang Xiaoquan Company can claim a history longer and more tumultuous than most. Imperial dynasties have come and ...