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Sep 2010 - Local health authorities Tuesday admitted waiting for five months before announcing that secret recalls had been ordered for camellia oil by Jinhao, a well-known edible oil maker based in Central China's Hunan province, after the oil had been found to hav Sep 2010 - Thirty tons of melamine-tainted milk powder that were hidden during the 2008 scandal has resurfaced in a village in Shanxi Province, the Legal Weekly reported Wednesday. Sep 2010 - Villages living near China's biggest gold mine, Zijin Mountain in southeast China's Fujian Province - which shocked the country with a massive pollution incident this July - say they are experiencing grave damage to their health. Sep 2010 - The mainland's top environmental agency has announced an investigation into the state of the nation's rivers and waterways - the biggest water-pollution survey in years. Aug 2010 - China wants to have up to 20 million clean and fuel-efficient new energy vehicles on the road by 2020, according to a recently published report in the local media. Aug 2010 - Synutra International, Inc, a leading infant formula company in China and a producer, marketer and seller of nutritional products for infants, children and adults, today announced that China's Ministry of Health has found no link between Synutra's infant Aug 2010 - International environmental group Greenpeace released their latest report on water pollution, "Swimming in Poison: An Analysis of Hazardous Chemicals in Yangtze River Fish". After taking samples of two commonly eaten fish from the Yangtze River, toxic and Aug 2010 - Recently, the NRDC has identified 8 cities as the pilot cities for the national low-carbon development. On August 20, the first low-Carbon headquarters base was announced to be established in Shenzhen. Aug 2010 - Sealed with a handshake: Jacob Zuma, South Africa's president, met his Chinese counterpart Hu Jintao in Beijing on Tuesday as the two sides announced a raft of commercial deals that will strengthen ties between the countries. Aug 2010 - According to today's official Shanghai Daily, some swimsuits and sportswear on display at two of the poshest malls on the city's swanky Nanjing West shopping street have failed a government quality check, because they could cause skin infections or "damag Aug 2010 - In the aftermath of the Lehman shock, China chose growth over the climate. Now the panic is over, there are tentative signs that it is planning another push to improve the efficiency of its smokestack economy. That is to be welcomed, so far as it goes. Aug 2010 - According to Thursday's South China Morning Post, officials in southern China's Guangdong province are concerned about undocumented workers from neighboring countries. Aug 2010 - Police have arrested six suspects and detained another 41 for allegedly participating in the production and distribution of melamine-tainted milk powder, food safety authorities said over the weekend.
Aug 2010 - YICHUN, Heilongjiang - The death toll from Monday's fireworks factory explosion in northeast China's Heilongjiang Province had climbed to 19, with five missing and 153 others injured, local authorities said Tuesday. Aug 2010 - China's General Administration, Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine (AQSIQ) recently released a list of unqualified imported foods and cosmetics. The 86 batches of unqualified foreign commodities, including Procter and Gamble Pringl Aug 2010 - Panasonic Corp's China unit will recall 365,574 refrigerators on the mainland due to faulty temperature control components, the General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine said Wednesday. Aug 2010 - The department of health of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region government recently urged local residents not to buy or use two hair care products by mainland herbal shampoo maker Beijing Zhangguang 101 Science and Technology Development Company a Aug 2010 - Hong Kong-listed Chinese electronics retailer Gome Electrical Appliances said it filed a writ of summons against former chairman Huang Guangyu at HK's High Court on Thursday for Huang's alleged breach of fiduciary duties in early 2008 as a former board di Aug 2010 - The Executive Director of BaWang International Group Holding Ltd. apologized on Thursday to a Shanghai newspaper for an incident a week earlier when four of the shampoo manufacturer's employees resorted to violence at the newspaper's offices, in reaction Jul 2010 - Seventeen people have been killed in a coal mine blast in northern China, the government said Saturday, in the second major industrial accident to hit the country this week. Jul 2010 - Another Japanese manufacturer has been hit by labour strife in Guangdong province as a wave of Chinese strikes that began in May refuses to subside. Jul 2010 - July 26, Chinese petroleum giants PetroChina Co. Ltd. and China Petroleum & Chemical Corp. (Sinopec) have shut 230 oil wells after the Liaohe River in Jiangsu province, eastern China, flooded, China Business News reported Monday. Jul 2010 - International gas companies are set to lose billions of dollars of sales over the next decade, as China, their most voracious customer, aggressively develops its own huge gas reserves and drastically cuts its imported gas requirements, a new study shows. Jul 2010 - Aluminum Corp of China (Chalco), the nation's biggest producer of the metal, signed in Beijing a binding agreement Thursday with Rio Tinto Group to establish a joint venture and operate an iron ore mine at Simandou in southeast Guinea. Jul 2010 - Li Hua, manager of China Mobile's Sichuan branch for over ten years, has been detained for alleged wrongdoing. Jul 2010 - China's food and drug watchdog Friday passed shampoos made by domestic firm Bawang International as safe to use, saying the levels of a potentially carcinogenic ingredient were within standards. Jul 2010 - Over 500 fishing boats Monday joined a massive oil spill clean-up operation underway off the coast of northeastern China's Dalian City, three days after pipelines exploded near the city's oil reserve base, one of China's largest. Jul 2010 - Zijin Mining Group Co., China's biggest gold producer, said Monday it suspended operations at one of its copper plants in eastern China after acidic waste water leaked from the plant following continuous heavy rainfall and killed tons of fish in the nearb Jul 2010 - McDonald's Corp on Wednesday declined to release the exact amount of two food additives contained in its Chicken McNuggets sold in China - chemicals that, if taken in excess, may cause nausea or vomiting. Jul 2010 - Chinese government officials pledged Tuesday to improve regulations on food, particularly dairy products, following last week's seizure of 64 tons of milk powder containing 500 times the acceptable level of toxic melamine. Jul 2010 - Hilton has been severely embarrassed in China after one of its flagship hotels was closed down by the police over an alleged brothel operating in the basement. Jul 2010 - Song Shanmu, the boss of the Sunmoon Education Group, has been accused of rape by Luo Yun, one of his female employees, and stories of him sexually harassing other workers are coming out. Jun 2010 - Inquiry into deaths at Foxconn will be released to public says official Jun 2010 - 47 killed in latest mine blast Jun 2010 - Strikes in China signal end to era of low-cost labour and cheap exports Jun 2010 - Shanghai GM Publishes Five Year Green Strategy Jun 2010 - KFC latest company to increase salaries Jun 2010 - China releases plan on drinking water source protection Jun 2010 - China develops it's first CO2 capture and storage project Jun 2010 - Hong Kong: small leakage at Chinese nuclear plant Jun 2010 - Environment watchdog sinks teeth into local governments to curb river pollution Jun 2010 - Breaking the Ice on Open Environmental Information: 2008 Pollution Information Transparency Index (PITI) Jun 2010 - China Development Bank releases its 3rd responsibility report
Jun 2010 - China to strengthen supervision of listed firms' pollution Jun 2010 - Training in CSR Solutions (SynTao & CSR Asia): Certified Training on GRI Reporting & Community Investment, June 9th Beijing |
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Smoking Dragon Figures from China's first national pollution survey have been jointly released by the Ministry of Environmental Protection (MEP), the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) and the Ministry of Agriculture (MOA) – the first results of the two-year long undertaking to be made public. The information released on this occasion was an overview of national macro data and the changes seen in some major emission indices have consequences for China's overall pollution-reduction efforts.
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Doubts Return Over 'Made In China' China wishes to climb the value chain and produce more sophisticated goods. But the domestic industrial psyche remains caught in a drive for profitability, not sustainability. Chinese firms looking to expand their operations both at home and overseas run the risk of being undermined by questions over quality. As long as companies can cut corners for quick returns, knowing that their chances of being held to account are slim, nothing is likely to change. Read more
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Business Events April Managing the Ethical Risks of Doing Business in Asia, Innovation & Industrialization in the Coexistence Era of Alternative & Conventional Vehicles, China EPower, May 9th Annual Responsible Business Summit, IFAT CHINA + EPTEE + CWS, 16th Annual International Sustainable Development Research Conference, June Clean Energy Expo China, Sept CSR Asia Summit
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CSR self-assessment and e-Learning CSRchina has launched an innovative self-assessment and e-learning programme. Benchmark your operations online, confidentially, against international standards. Access tools and good practice from international sources. Build and monitor an improvement programme online.
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CSR China is monitoring Asian investments for Norwegian Government Pension Fund CSR China is working with SourceAsia to provide ethical monitoring of Asian companies in the Norwegian Government Global Pension Fund. We use intelligent web search software to identify news reports from hundreds of key web sites and blogs in English, Chinese and Japanese. These reports are assessed for significance by topic experts and verified by our local research networks. Read more
Since December 2008 CSR China has been working with GTZ to help fifteen factories in Hebei province to develop and implement a CSR strategy.
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