Carrefour Cozies Up to the Party
It started with organic farms. Now Chinese Communist Party officials in Beijing can enjoy their...
Read MorePosted by Anne Henochowicz | Jul 1, 2012
It started with organic farms. Now Chinese Communist Party officials in Beijing can enjoy their...
Read MorePosted by Scott Greene | Mar 16, 2012
McDonald’s and Carrefour issued apologies after Chinese state television marked World Consumer Right Day on Thursday by airing an investigative report accusing both of improper food safety practices. From The Washington...
Read MorePosted by Liu Yong | May 1, 2008
From AP: Protests erupted Thursday outside Carrefour stores in Beijing and three other Chinese cities, with hundreds of people waving banners and shouting slogans amid anger at foreigners over Tibet and the Olympic torch relay....
Read MorePosted by Liu Yong | Apr 29, 2008
From Google Blogoscoped: Many Chinese are currently reportedly angered at France for an attack against a wheelchair-bound Olympic torch bearer that took place in France, as well as Paris awarding honorary citizenship to the...
Read MorePosted by Kate Zhao | Apr 25, 2008
Posted by Linjun Fan | Apr 22, 2008
While hundreds of thousands of Chinese rushed to boycott Carrefour, a French supermarket chain which was accused of funding the Dalai Lama, Han Han, an influential writer among China’s younger generation and a race car...
Read MorePosted by Sophie Beach | Apr 19, 2008
Despite government efforts to rein in virulent nationalist sentiment, demonstrations against foreign media, French supermarkets, and others viewed as being “anti-China” took place across the globe today. In China,...
Read MorePosted by Sophie Beach | Apr 18, 2008
Calls for a boycott of French retailer Carrefour are heating up. Time China blog posted the text of an SMS making the rounds: We hope you are able to boycott Carrefour at least on 1 May, to deliver, by the empty Carrefour that...
Read MorePosted by Josie Liu | Apr 16, 2008
A boycott against French retail giant Carrefour in China was recently waged on the Internet in the wake of the troubled Olympic Torch Relay. A message has been widely circulated on the web calling on the Chinese public to stay...
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