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LatestH&M, C&A, 3M Investigate Claims of Prison Labor
In 2013, Peter Humphrey and his wife Yu Yingzeng, fraud investigators who ran the ChinaWhys firm,...
Several Views on Social Credit in China
At Wired, Mara Hvistendahl explores the history and still unclear future of China’s nascent...
Social Credit for Chinese Companies: Boon or Bane?
Over the last two years, the Chinese government has allowed private companies and city-level...
Baidu, Tencent Featured in Ranking Digital Rights Index
Ranking Digital Rights (RDR) reviews the world’s biggest Internet and telecommunications companies...
Jack Ma Tries to Spark New Era of Charity
Jack Ma, the founder of Alibaba Group, is creating “one of Asia’s largest philanthropic...
Is Change Emerging in China’s Factories?
Keith Bradsher and Charles Duhigg of The New York Times report that electronics companies such as Apple, which came under heavy criticism earlier this year for the working conditions on its Chinese assembly lines, have changed...
Chen Guangcheng: “Speak Out … The Sky Won’t Fall.”
The Atlantic’s James Fallows spoke recently to legal activist Chen Guangcheng, currently living in New York after his dramatic escape from house arrest in April. Chen explained his views on the deterioration of rule of law...
Ma Jun: The Most Creative Person in Business
Fast Company Magazine recently named Chinese environmental activist Ma Jun to the #1 spot on their list of the 100 Most Creative People in Business. Christina Larson profiles him for the magazine: An environmental researcher by...
China’s Fight Against Bribery and Corruption
High-level corruption is in the news with the recent downfall of former Chongqing Party chief Bo Xilai. But bribery on a much smaller scale is sometimes part of the risk of doing business in China. As part of an effort to stamp...
This American Life’s Foxconn Retraction: Reactions
Apple CEO Tim Cook has met with government officials and representatives of the titanic but iPhoneless China Mobile in Beijing, according to The Wall Street Journal: A spokeswoman said Mr. Cook— who is on his first trip to China...
Are Walmart’s Factories as Bad as Apple’s?
Mother Jones has published a lengthy investigative report on Wal-Mart’s controversial and ambitious policies promoting sustainability, which finds that the auditing process in the corporation’s Chinese factories is...
Apple Releases 2012 Supplier Responsibility Report
Apple has released its latest Supplier Responsibility report, which shows an 80% drop in underage labour and signs of a new and long-awaited transparency. The company also published a nearly comprehensive list of suppliers for...
Chinese Oil Giant's Shares Tumble in Spill Controversy
Chinese oil company CNOOC has watched its share price fall following a growing controversy over an oil spill in the Bohai Gulf. From the Los Angeles Times blog: Shares were down 2.1% in midday trading in Hong Kong after falling...
Mixed Signals from Apple on Pollution Report
Apple’s response to a recent report by Chinese environmental NGOs, in which it came under heavy fire for pollution from suppliers, has been characteristically vague and evasive, but the company has also shown some signs of...
"Apple Has Made No Progress at All" on Environment
In January, a group of Chinese environmental NGOs including Friends of Nature and IPE ranked Apple last out of 29 tech companies in terms of environmental transparency. While the company’s own audits have revealed a number...
Disney, Walmart Toy Supplier Faces Sweatshop Accusations
Corporate responsibility organisation Sacom has accused a Shenzhen toy factory, whose customers include Disney, Mattel and Walmart, of labour abuses such as forced, excessive overtime and employment of underage workers. It also...
Apple in China: Red, Delicious and Rotten
Foreign Policy’s Christina Larson suggests that while Apple is enjoying great success in China, its behaviour has been more Chinese Communist Party than Dalai Lama: About three years ago, … Cupertino rolled up its...
