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GE Chairman and CEO Jeff Immelt announced that the company is donating more than CNY10 million in additional water and medical equipment to hospitals and communities in earthquake impacted areas in Chengdu, Gansu and Sichuan provinces.
The equipment, which is on its way to affected areas, will join water purification, emergency lighting, X-ray, anesthesia, ultrasound, monitoring [...]
Microsoft says it will increase its investments in China next month by donating two fully equipped InfoWagons, open a Partners in Learning school, launch a Family Education PC program for rural communities in Miyun county outside Beijing, and provide digital literacy content and training in libraries and iCafes across Xinjiang.
These initiatives extend those announced when [...]
The China Audio and Video Copyright Collective Management Association, which has been brewing for about ten years, has been formally set up in Beijing to implement China's "Copyright Collective Management Rule".
Zhang Zhenhua, former president of China Radio International, has been elected as the president, and Wang Huapeng as vice president, secretary-general and legally responsible person [...]
During a review of kids' apparel, toys and stationery before the International Children's Day, Guangzhou Municipal Quality Inspection Bureau found that about 30% of children's apparel sold in the Guangzhou market is unqualified.
GMQIB checked 29 batches of children's clothes and they found that about 70% of the clothes were qualified. The main problem of these [...]
Csland Resort & Spa Suzhou held a charitable event with Shining Playground Organization. Nearly 200 families and about 450 guests attended to this event and raised CNY51300 for support to people in need in Suzhou.
A few days after the earthquake, it became clear that NGOs in the affected region were given a greater role than ever before. IT was amazing to see members of Heart to Heart being interviewed by Premier Wen Jia Bao, and many of us in the NGO community were discussing the potential impact.
When asked, [...]
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By Flora Zhang
Sino-European textile groups pen CSR pact Posted by admin on June 3, 2008 under China and Globalization The first Sino-European cooperation agreement on corporate social responsibility (CSR) was signed on Friday in a move to strengthen strategic ties between Chinese textile suppliers and European retailers. China National……
Large electronic brands such as HP, Dell, Apple etc... still don't care much about the working conditions of the Chinese factories they use - This is the sad conclusion of an off-site survey called "Hi Tech - No Rights", led by Swiss associations among factory workers in China. The situation is all the more regrettable as producing a "fair computer", enabling the doubling of workers' wages and significantly improving their working conditions, would cost no more than US$ 50 per unit. Read the w
