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The China Business Network: URBN Hotel & Resorts
Christine Lu of The China Business Network brings us another great podcast about URBN Hotels & Resorts, an eco-friendly boutique hotel and resort company based in Shanghai. The company’s first luxury hotel, a 28-room property catered to design-focused “urban world travelers,” bills itself as being China’s first carbon neutral hotel.
URBN Hotels’ vision is to expand [...]
Social entrepreneurship in Sichuan: Interview with Meg Young of Ecologia, a sustainable development program
This post is part of an occasional series of interviews with those working on development and sustainability issues in China, particularly southwestern Sichuan province.
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Contributing blogger Mark Hiew brings you an interview with Meg Young from Ecologia, an example of social entrepreneurship through rabbit farming in Sichuan. Here, Young explains some of her successes and development [...]
Tofani’s “American Imports, Chinese Deaths”
(Photo via Salt Lake Tribune)
The World Security Institute’s Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting recently funded a news series about China factory conditions, titled, “American Imports, Chinese Deaths,” for the Salt Lake Tribune.
Veteran reporter Loretta Tofani’s most recent investigative project took her to China, where over a 12-month period she visited more than 25 factories and [...]
AmCham honors responsible businesses in China
Companies Honored For Sustainability In China At Annual CSR Awards
ChinaCSR.com
October 30, 2007
General Electric has been honored in Shanghai for their commitment to corporate social responsibility in China.
The American Chamber of Commerce in Shanghai held its Third Annual Corporate Social Responsibility Conference and Awards at the Portman Ritz-Carlton Hotel, where GE and other companies were recognized [...]
Mattel: Sorry, China
Last week, Mattel Chairman and CEO Robert Eckert formally apologized for his company’s product safety lapses and tried to explain how millions of toys were recalled. (Read his full testimony to the U.S. Senate Committee on Appropriations here.)
“As I said at the outset of my testimony, these recent recalls have been a personal disappointment to [...]
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