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Responsible Bloggers: polluters’ ultimatum, China losing control, rainforests for rubber, new labor laws, media coverage

A round-up of responsible blogging about China, the environment, and CSR:

• “East China Province Gives Ultimatum to Polluters Before Olympics”
  All Roads Lead to China
  April 7, 2008
  “Xinhua has just released an article that I think everyone should pay attention to: East China province gives ultimatum to polluters before Olympics…”

• “China Loses Control of the Games”
  Spiegel Online International, via China Digital Times
  April 8, 2008
  “China had been hoping to show itself as a worldly and tolerant host of the Olympic Games. But the sporting festival has already become a PR disaster for the country. Repression in Tibet and ongoing crackdowns have revealed the extent to which the country remains a police state….”

• “China sacrifices rain forests in Yunnan Province to produce more rubber”
  Reuters, via China Environmental News Digest
  April 8, 2008
  “Rain forests have been reduced to patches of protected zones in Xishuangbanna, one of the top rubber-producing regions in China, as double-digit economic growth has caused increasing encroachment on China’s last remnants of uncultivated land…”

• “China’s New Labor Law Means Tenure For Everybody”
  Danwei, via China Law Blog
  April 7, 2008
  “The [new China labor] law was a government response to increasing public concern that employers were mistreating employees, especially in failing to pay proper wages….The law has several components, but the main effects are the requirement that employees have formal term contracts, and that employees can only be terminated with cause….”

And from a newcomer on my blogroll (thanks to a tip from the guys at the China Law Blog!):

• “China’s Media Coverage of Environmental Issues“
  China Environmental Law
  April 9, 2008
  “While the Chinese media tend to act in a reflexively defensive fashion to any external criticisms of China’s environmental situation (particularly Beijing air quality), its internal coverage of environmental issues is fairly candid…”

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