Albany Molecular looks to Asia as it chops U.S. staff

Just a day after Charles River Laboratories' CEO was touting the cheaper, better educated workers it could hire in China, Albany Molecular Research cut 80 contract research jobs in the U.S. as it pushed ahead with plans to hire 180 in India and Singapore. "Our customers are asking for this, and this is where the demand is," AMRI spokeswoman Andrea Schulz told the Albany Times-Union. The contract research operation is investing $30 million in Asia as it consolidates labs in the U.S.,...