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September 1st, 2008 by
Adam
The World Bank said improved economic estimates showed there were more poor people around the world than previously thought while also revealing big successes in the fight to overcome extreme poverty.
The new estimates, which reflect improvements in internationally comparable price data, offer a much more accurate picture of the cost of living in developing countries and set a new poverty line of US$1.25 a day. They are based on the results of the 2005 International Comparison Program (ICP), released earlier this year.
The developing world is poorer than we thought but no less successful in the fight against poverty. In China, the number of people living on less than US$1.25 a day in 2005 prices has dropped from 835 million in 1981 to 207 million in 2005. The Bank’s earlier 2004 estimate had 130 million people living in China below US$1 a day based on 1993 PPP. Thus, the new calculations reveal more poor people than assumed earlier, but China’s remarkable success in reducing poverty still stands. source.
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September 1st, 2008 by
Technorati China CSR
Inequities Are Killing People On A “Grand Scale” Reports WHO’s Commission September 1st, 2008 A child born in a Glasgow, Scotland suburb can expect a life 28 years shorter than another living only 13 kilometers away. A girl in Lesotho is likely to live 42 years less than another in Japan. In Sweden, the risk of a woman dying during pregnancy and childbirth is 1 in 17,400; in Afghanistan, the odds are 1 in 8. Biology does not explain any of this. Instead, the differences between — and within
August 31st, 2008 by
Editor
A Chinese engineering company has been granted a patent for an environmental-friendly way of gassifying and incinerating urban household garbage.
Patent No: ZL200610054403X has been granted to China Power Investment Corporation Yuanda Environmental-protection Engineering Co., Ltd., by the Chinese State Intellectual Property Office.
The method and system mentioned is for the gasification and incineration of urban [...]
August 31st, 2008 by
Editor
According to China's General Office of the State Council, from September 13 to 15 will be Mid-autumn Festival holidays.
This is the first Mid-autumn Festival holiday on the Chinese mainland since the Chinese Government has decided it should be a statutory holiday.
Labor departments warned that employment units should pay three times the usual wages for [...]
August 31st, 2008 by
Editor
The China Consumers' Association, China General Chamber of Commerce, China National Light Industry Council, the China Packaging Federation, and the China Health Care Association have jointly proposed that manufacturers and operators should cooperate with consumers to reduce excessive packaging.
According to the proposal product manufacturers should consciously avoid excessive packaging and offer genuine goods at [...]
August 31st, 2008 by
Editor
More than 150 people from Baoji City and Hanzhong City of Shaanxi Province, who were affected by the May 12 earthquake, have began their new jobs in Tianjin Epson Co., Ltd.
In mid July, Epson has started its recruitment work in Baoji and Hanzhong, and has made offers of employment to about 400 people. The [...]
August 31st, 2008 by
Rich
Corinne Hua of CSR solutions, formerly of Loving Heart Association, is in need of a projector and screen for a current project.
As some of you may know, on behalf of Ciba, a Swiss chemicals company based in Shanghai, I hired a teacher to teach science classes at a school for migrants in Minhang, starting last term.
The new teacher we have hired this term would like to prepare his classes in powerpoint, which I am sure will be very attractive to the students. He has a laptop computer but no projector and no screen. Of course the school has no multi-media equipment, and not even a white wall to project onto, and the company doesn’t currently have the budget to buy one.
If anyone knows a company which would be able to donate one, we could use it on this project and on other projects we have in the migrant schools.
Grateful if anyone has any leads!
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August 30th, 2008 by
Technorati China CSR
OIL AND NATURAL GAS CORPORATION LIMITED ANNUAL REPORT 2007-2008 DIRECTORS' REPORT Dear Members, On behalf of the Board of Directors of your Company, it is my privilege to present the 15th Annual Report and Audited Statement of Accounts for the year ended 31st March, 2008, together with the Auditors' Report and Comments on the Accounts by the Comptroller and Auditor General (C&AG) of India. At the outset, I must congratulate you as your Company has been the first and only Indian company to b
