Human Rights Watch has published a list of Uyghur detainees in Xinjiang’s Aksu prefecture linking their arbitrary imprisonment to the Integrated Joint Operations Platform (IJOP). The IJOP is a “predictive policing” data...
Channel News Asia reports on Beijing’s allegations that the multinational Coca-Cola Company has been performing illegal mapping in China: US soft drinks giant Coca-Cola is “cooperating fully” with Chinese...
A Shanxi Coca-Cola factory has been ordered to cease production by the Provincial Bureau of Quality and Technical Supervision, after a whistleblower reported chlorine contamination from maintenance work in early February. From...
At The Atlantic, Helen Gao examines the Bo Xilai affair’s blurring of the lines between truth and rumour, and the corrosive effects of the government’s own information policies. On the morning of April 11, Chinese...
With the rise in food prices and labor inflation in China, fast food chains, such as KFC, are planning a rise in prices to offset these factors. Despite the rise in prices, the share price of Yum Brands Inc, KFC’s parent...
A ten-year-old boy in north-eastern China died on Tuesday of apparent pesticide poisoning from a tainted bottle of strawberry yoghurt drink, bringing renewed attention to the country’s persistent problems with dairy...
As CDT posted earlier, a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission from the China Investment Corp details $9.63 billion of equity holdings in U.S. listed companies and funds. Reuters reports on the numbers: Among...
The New York Times reports: Coca-Cola Inc. said Tuesday that a second manager who worked in the company’s Shanghai bottling plant has been detained by police on suspicion of accepting bribes or kickbacks. The announcement came...
A new book raises the grim possibility China could ‘turn inwards’ and end up like Japan. From financeasia.com: China’s decision not to allow Coca Cola to buy local soft drinks champion Huiyuan Juice, announced...
Coca Cola’s two-billion dollar takeover bid for Chinese juice company Huiyuan has been rejected. From the Wall Street Journal: The decision by the Commerce Ministry Wednesday to block what would have been the largest-ever...
BusinessWeek reports on the news that Coca-Cola plans to invest $2 billion in China over the next three years: For almost half a year, Coca-Cola executives have been waiting for China to give the OK to Coke’s proposed takeover...
From AFP: A group of Chinese drinks makers are to submit plans to the government they hope will block Coca-Cola’s takeover of China Huiyuan Juice Group, state media reported Monday. A consortium has prepared three plans...
From the Wall Street Journal: Coca-Cola Co.’s $2.4 billion deal to acquire China Huiyuan Juice Group Ltd. offers the first major test of China’s new antitrust law — one that comes amid public concern over the...
The New York Times blog reports on Coca-Cola’s recent purchase of Chinese juice maker Huiyuan: Coca-Cola bought the juice maker for about six times its 2007 earnings, whereas Coca-Cola, arguably one of the world’s premier...
From Xinhua: Coca Cola expects China to be its largest market, said E. Neville Isdell, chairman and chief executive officer of the Coca Cola Company. Although China’s economy has been growing rapidly for more than two decades, Isdell noted that he had confidence in its further growth. “China is currently our fourth largest market, but […]
From Dow Jones: As part of its efforts to boost its sales in China, Coca-Cola Co. (KO) is investing $80 million to build a new China headquarters and research and development center in Shanghai , the company’s new president for China business, Douglas Jackson, said Monday. The R&D center, which is expected to be finished […]
In a sign that water is becoming the “new carbon,” Coca-Cola has agreed to change their bottling practices to conserve water while also contributing to efforts to clean up the Yangtze: Coca-Cola (KO) will revamp bottling practices globally to save water and pay for conservation along the Yangtze River and other major waterways, highlighting a […]
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