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According to Yunan Provincial Education Department, Yunnan has established cooperation with more than 200 universities from over 50 countries across the world to promote international educational cooperation and exchange and improve its international education level.
In 2007, Yunnan recruited more than 2000 foreign and it sent up to 1000 students to study abroad. There were 500 [...]
Commit, a Chinese TD-SCDMA chip manufacturer which may face bankruptcy because of a loss of capital, has announced plans to stop business operations and pay off the defaulted salaries and travel expenses to its employees.
The board of directors of Commit is said to have held a meeting on May 5 on which they passed the [...]
As yet another citizen protest takes place in a major city [in Chengdu, about a PetroChina project], it is necessary to reflect, not just on this new activism we are seeing and how it is organised electronically, nor even how this kind of activism could be either seen (by most commentators) as either a safe [...]
Painting a school is one of my favorite activities. We have painted 6 so far, and have another 4 planned for this summer… and this Youtube does a great job of showing why
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J8JDMDmcl7M
By Edward Wong Via IHT.COMMonday, May 5, 2008
Protesters
wear masks as a symbolic gesture against the construction of a
polyethylene chemical factory in Chengdu, in southwestern China's
Sichuan province, on Sunday. (The Associated Press)
Hundreds of people marched in a western provincial capital over
the weekend to protest environmental risks they say are associated
Aluminum Corporation of China Limited, a joint stock limited company in China, has published its Corporate Social Responsibility Report 2007, which is the third annual CSR report published by the company.
CHALCO's 2007 report outlines the company's citizenship responsibilities, economic responsibilities, quality responsibilities, environmental responsibilities, innovation responsibilities, safety responsibilities, internal responsibilities and public welfare responsibilities. The [...]
The National Bureau of Statistics of China says a nationwide sampling survey on 68000 rural households in 31 provinces of China indicated that per capita cash income of farmers reached RMB1,494 in the first quarter, a year-on-year increase of 18.5%.
This was also a real growth of 9.1% after deducting price factors, down by 3% over [...]
Unions in Canada are upset that the olympians part of Team Canada are wearing clothing manufactured in China.
The apparel was unveiled last Wednesday. HBC, which was granted the production and distribution contract, has announced that 80% of all manufacturing activities have been exported to China.
"It's totally unacceptable," said President of Teamsters Canada Robert Bouvier in [...]
I have often said that China is a “crisis-rich environment” in which to do business. Recent events have certainly borne that out: From the situation on the roof of the world; to demonstrations outside French retail chain Carrefour and calls to boycott French products; to the outbreak of a deadly strain of Hand, Foot and Mouth Disease, termed “Baby SARS” by the local media (China Suffers HFMD Outbreak, WSJ, 29 April 2008). Clearly not much has changed in the market despite applaudable stride
