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Tuesday, June 17, 2008
3:00 PM to 5:00 PM
Beijing American Club
The CSR Committee of AmCham-China presents Professor Zhang Xiulan from Beijing Normal University and the Wenchuan Earthquake Taskforce (WET) who will talk about the situation in the earthquake affected areas, the short and long term needs and will discuss government plans as currently developed. She is [...]
Elaine, a “a faithful Crossroads reader”, forwarded me an interesting article on Treehugger that introduces Prince Charles new effort to save the Beijing Hutongs. It is neither a new subject, or one that doesn’t need to be addressed right away. there have been other groups that have made similar proposals, and as the [...]
China Mobile said it had removed a total of CNY260 million in communications fees for about 3.329 million mobile phone users in the earthquake area of Sichuan from May 12 to May 31.
During that period, about 1.05 million people reportedly entered the five regions of Chengdu, Mianyang, Deyang, Guangyuan and Aba Tibetan and Qiang Ethnic [...]
Jiangxi provincial government has signed letters of responsibility with county and town level government and related departments which say that from August 1, 2008 to July 1, 2010, wastewater treatment facilities in all counties and towns should be completed and put into use, and wastewater treatment rate should reach 70%.
In the next two years, there [...]
The Tangshan region near Beijing will soon be home to a new ecological city with one million inhabitants.
The new city in China will consist of 150 square kilometers with an initial stage that will have a scope of 30 square kilometers. A deep-water port and industrial area are also being planned in conjunction with the [...]
The other day, I received a message from the CSR director of a partner of ours. It was a forwarded message of his local manager’s account of a day with us, and I wanted to share it as it is a perfect example of just how powerful a day of volunteering can be.
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As a [...]
At the Crossroads movie showing later this month on the 26th, which is well worth watching, viewers can find out about an interesting idea that was used in the ecosystem restoration program, and i wonder if this idea could have relevance in Sichuan.
The idea is to pay villagers to work on environmental projects, which gives [...]
following the 5.12 Wenchuan earthquake, a lot of sotries about the role of individuals leaping into action, about how NGOs became a critical component of the process and their opportunity to take another step in China, about the role of NGOs in China, and so on.
and while there were questions about how NGOs were going [...]
