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...corporation with ties to Myanmar in the state’s portfolio, according to Rushing, formerly of the Class of 1964. The bill would require the State Treasurer to investigate and divulge the state’s other investments in Myanmar. “When you have socially responsible investor resolutions, it’s very rare that they win. But the companies react to them if they have a significant number of shares voting,” Rushing said in an interview yesterday. He added that the state’s stake alone was probably not large enough...
...billionaire investor Jeffrey Epstein, charges of illicit sex practices just keep coming. The New York businessman who donated $30 million to Harvard in 2003 for the creation of a mathematical biology and evolutionary dynamics program may face charges of sexually abusing a 16-year-old girl who sought his help in becoming a model, ABC News reported late last week. According to the complaint filed with the New York Supreme Court—and first posted on the Web site of The Smoking Gun, which requests government documents under the Freedom of Information Act and posts them online?...
...Korean conglomerate that manages the two projects and has invested nearly $1 billion in them, is convinced that North Korea is ready to embrace capitalism. "The North Koreans are really studying the market-oriented system," says Jang Whan Bin, Hyundai Asan's senior vice president of international business and investor relations. Such optimism is essential for South Koreans, for whom investment in the North is less an overture for integration than a hedge against their neighbor's collapse. Better, perhaps, to nudge the D.P.R.K. toward prosperity now than to inherit a ruined state later...
...Rose, buyouts by Chinese companies in Europe and North America rose to $6 billion last year. But corporate China's anything-goes reputation can be repellent to potential partners. "There will be times that Indian companies, based in a high-functioning democracy, will win a bid or get an investor, a customer, because they're just seen as more stable," says Melissa Brown, director of the Association for Sustainable and Responsible Investment in Asia...
...highest standards of international conduct. And activists have been able to use the Games as a way of holding China to account. That has been done most obviously in the case of Darfur. Critics say Beijing's support for the government of Sudan--where China is the biggest investor in the growing oil industry as well as its biggest customer, importing about two-thirds of the country's crude production last year--amounts to support for genocide in Darfur. For years, Eric Reeves, a professor of English at Smith College, has been writing articles and giving speeches on Darfur...