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...number of flights could increase based on demand, according to a report by Xinhua, China's state-run news service. The Straits Exchange Foundation and the Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Straits also agreed to conduct regular meetings and set up offices in Taipei and Beijing...
...event of a conflict, considers the Taiwan Strait to be one of the most dangerous flashpoints in Asia. Easing tensions will require more than a deal on tourism, Yang says, but he notes that Friday's agreement could help reduce provocative military maneuvers. "Both China and Taiwan conduct training exercises in the Taiwan Strait. To avoid miscalculation, to avoid accidents, those exercises have to be constrained," he says. "Whether Beijing or Taiwan have a willingness to eliminate exercises and training, that remains to be seen. But that would be conducive to assurance of safety corridors [for]normal charter flights." When...
...conduct one of her experiments, Song compared the responses of subjects exposed to menu descriptions typed in a simple Arial font with responses from those exposed to identical dish descriptions in a harder-to-read Mistral font. Subjects in the latter group were more likely to conclude that the dish was hard to prepare and required great skill...
...Conduct Becoming Three years ago Nike, now among the most progressive companies on labor practices, took steps to curb what it saw as counterproductive auditing. In a daring move, it revealed its manufacturing sites - long seen as proprietary information - and suggested that companies manufacturing products in these same places collaborate on factory monitoring. Six months later Levi Strauss followed, and today is working with 15 other firms in 130 factories. Resources that once went to monitoring are now used on training overseas management, says Kobori, helping to create an environment in which factories have a bigger stake in how they...
...Codes of conduct hammered out in corporate offices in the West can lose in translation when applied overseas. Mukhtarul Amin, managing director of Superhouse Ltd., an Indian clothes manufacturer that counts Esprit and Diesel among its clients, candidly admits that he can meet only 95% of his social responsibility commitments. Some, he says, are just too difficult, or aren't relevant to Indian society. French retailer Decathlon requires suppliers to have official documentation of workers' ages. "They don't know that a large number of Indians in rural areas have no such documents," says V. Srinivasan, a Superhouse manager...