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...mindedly focused on growth and profit, heedless of the impact their activities had on the environment and communities. Things began to change a few years ago, when "social responsibility went from being a topic pushed on China by others to one it took on as its own," says Zhou Weidong, who runs the China branch of the U.K.-based NGO Business for Social Responsibility. Zhou and others largely credit the government for pressuring companies to contribute to a "harmonious society," Beijing's catchphrase for promoting social development along with economic expansion. "Party officials are in all earnestness trying to deal...
...Weidong Xu, 38, a former Harvard Medical School (HMS) instructor and researcher at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, was arrested last Tuesday after allegedly bilking friends, students and colleagues out of more than...
...slam dunk. The fans are there; attendance at Chinese Basketball Association games has been rising steadily and is on pace to break 600,000 this season. Valuable sponsors are eager to plaster their logos on team jerseys and arena signboards. Homegrown superstars are emerging, such as rangy prodigies Hu Weidong, a crowd-pleasing Jiangsu Dragons forward, and Yao Ming, a 2.23-m windmill who regulates the paint for the Shanghai Sharks. Showtime in the CBA has all the trappings of big-time hoops. It's becoming a credible entertainment replete with thunderjams, jiggly cheerleaders and thousands of screaming spectators...
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