China, the world's largest consumer and producer of tobacco, has ratified an international treaty aimed at curbing tobacco-related diseases and deaths. The World Health Organization Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (WHO FCTC) was by the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, Chinese state media reported.
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Yesterday, a male passenger surnamed Yang suddenly fell sick one hour after CA933, a flight enroute to Paris from Beijing, took to the air.
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European clothing retailers were told to 'get real' and quit complaining about recent trade restraints placed on textiles and clothing imports from China. And their current campaign against EU action was described as 'verging on the hysterical and devoid of substance' by Neil Kearney, General Secretary of the Brussels-based International Textile, Garment and Leather Workers' Federation (ITGLWF).
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Associates at Sheraton Suzhou Hotel and Towers are rising to a new challenge in August and September to celebrate the "Right to Play" campaign, in conjunction with UNICEF through the Check Out for Children fundraising initiative.
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Eastman Kodak Company announced actions to consolidate its worldwide manufacturing operations as part of its ongoing program to rapidly adjust to the accelerating decline in demand for consumer film and photographic paper.
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China's legislature yesterday passed amendments to the law on women's rights protection, which "prohibits sexual harassment of women" and empowers women to "lodge complaints" to relevant organizations. The amendments, to take effect from Dec. 1, 2005, also contain a clause that states "granting men and women equal status is a basic state policy of the country. The state will adopt necessary measures to gradually improve various systems to guarantee the rights and interests of women and remove all sorts of discrimination against women."
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On August 17, 2005, the South China Morning Post, Hong-Kong's English-language newspaper, printed an article alleging that mainland China wig manufacturer Henan Rebecca Hair Products employs the forced labor of prisoners in Xuchang. The company's half-year financial statement reveals that Deutsche Bank, HSBC, ING, Merrill Lynch, Morgan Stanley, and UBS are amongst its top ten investors.
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"The normal sex ratio at birth should be in the range of 100:103 (male:female) and 100:107. But it is now 100:119.86 in China," Gu Xiulian, vice chairwoman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress (NPC), said at a news conference held by the Information Office of the State Council this week.
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Wang Lequan, Member of the Political Bureau of CPC Central Committee and Secretary of CPC Xinjiang Committee, yesterday gave a press conference in Beijing on the development of the Xinjiang Autonomous Region.
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HP recently held a China Supplier Social and Environmental Responsibility (SER) Forum at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Shenzhen.
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Economic planners have ruled out the possibility of an oil crisis in China, days after an oil shortage boxed up the booming Guangdong Province. Li Yang, a senior official at the National Development and Reform Commission, said that China's current production, consumption, stockpiles, imports and exports of oil products are well balanced in general, and sufficient supply has been guaranteed.
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The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) has arranged an online discussion with the China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC) to review issues related to IMA (Internationalized eMail Address).
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The Asia Foundation has announced that Gina Despres, a senior vice president at Capital Research and Management Company, and Chien Lee, a Hong Kong-based private investor, have joined its Board of Trustees.
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According to China's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Australian Quarantine Laws forbid mooncakes that have stuffing made from egg and meat to enter Australia.
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An opening ceremony for the China-Sri Lanka Friendship Village was held yesterday in Walahanduwa, about 144 km south of Colombo in Sri Lanka, to house the displaced and the homeless due to last year's tsunami.
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