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...every corporation's night-mare: a throng of rowdy activists gathers outside company buildings to protest alleged environmental and human-rights abuses. That was the scene in New York City and Chicago last month as dozens of people in white haz-mat suits converged on the offices of JPMorgan Chase to decry what they claimed was the bank's underwriting of illegal logging in Indonesia, and human-rights abuses tied to a Chase-funded mining operation in Peru. Oil companies and industrial giants may be accustomed to such treatment, but not JPMorgan Chase, the second largest bank...
...Amro all say that green issues are increasingly important when they consider funding global projects. In the future, "the Equator Principles will be seen as a catalyst for how banks conduct themselves in other areas of their business," says ABN Amro's Burrett. If that happens, activists in haz-mat suits will have to find another target...
...have such a long way to go,” says Cheng as she crashes to the mat for the third time...
China put out a small welcome mat before she arrived, releasing its most prominent political prisoner, Muslim business executive Rebiya Kadeer, after five years in jail--a move designed to remove the issue of human rights from the bilateral agenda. But Rice's overriding goal was to find a way to restart the six-way talks among North Korea, the U.S., China, Japan, Russia and South Korea, stalled since Pyongyang confirmed in early February that it possessed nuclear weapons. Bush and Rice have long believed that the best way to disarm Kim Jong Il is to persuade China, which...
...Their characters, and [how] they’re driven, will take [them] farther outside of wrestling than on the mat,” Weiss says. “They just don’t know that...