A newly released independent report on AIDS in Asia has been critical of many of the current approaches to the disease and AIDS education. The report, prepared by a nine-member commission and chaired by Chakravarthi Rangarajan, urges the jettisoning of general and poorly defined AIDS awareness programs and, instead, concludes that efforts should be refocussed on those groups that are most ... (More)
Disney attracted an enormous amount of criticism last week, with many commentators accusing the company of hypocrisy; on the one hand slamming Vanity Fair for the now infamous cover shot of Miley Cyrus (aka popular Disney Channel actor and singer Hannah Montana) but on the other hand running this ad (above) in China. Slate's Daniel Brook snapped the ad in Beijing a few months ... (More)
MBA students from the Chinese University of Hong Kong held the programme’s annual Corporate Social Responsibility Conference at the Hong Kong Convention & Exhibition Centre on Friday, 2 May 2008. In its second year, the conference provided an opportunity for leaders from the business and academic worlds to come together to discuss several topics related to Corporate Social ... (More)
Buildings and their link to climate change have come under a lot of discussion recently in Hong Kong. Aside from a seminar held earlier in the year focused on the government’s proposed mandatory building energy codes (BECs), two recent events in the city have seen buildings being brought to the centre of the climate change discussion. The first was a workshop organised by public policy ... (More)
Labour day protests: Food, higher wages and labour contracting policies: It was labour day on 1 May and across South East Asia there were protests demanding higher wages, against rising food prices and also job security. In Thailand more than 3,000 workers demanded a minimum wage of 233 baht (US$7.35 dollars) a day and a curb on rising commodity prices. In the Philippines there were protests across the country ... (More)
Protests against development in Chengdu: The Beijing News (5 May) reported that almost 200 people protested on Sunday (4 May) in Pengzhou, Chengdu against the construction of a petrochemical plant and refinery they say will pollute the city. Protesters marched for around two hours and were peaceful and well behaved. The plants will produce 800,000 tons of ethylene and 10 million tons of crude oil per year. A ... (More)
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