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Corporate Social Responsibility – A China approach
Karin Buhmann
Read moreIntroduction: Human Rights and related issues in China 2008: Between tradition and external influence
Karin Buhmann
Read moreNordic strategies for China and Asia – energy, environment, climate change and R&D
Jørgen Delman PhD, Director, NIAS.
Read moreThe Return of the Asian Food Crisis – What is happening and why?
Magnus Jirström
Associate Professor, Department of Social and Economic Geography, Lund University.
THE POLITICAL PARANOIA OF THE BURMESE GENERALS
By Mikael Gravers
Why is it so difficult to get international aid into Burma and to help the survivors of the cyclone? And why is the regime afraid of foreign humanitarian assistance?
Read moreThe Wenzhou Earthquake experienced from Yinchuan.
By Jesper Schlæger, Ningxia, Yinchuan I am in Yinchuan, the capital of Ningxia, some 800 kilometers north of the earthquake epicenter in Sichuan. In Yinchuan the quake was also felt quite strongly (above 4 on the Richter scale) as a kind of waves more than shocks. The quake lasted for about 4 minutes. It took […]
Read moreOn Freedom of Speech and Compulsions of Silence
Stig Toft Madsen
April 14, 2008
Scene 1:
In the silent zone compartment of the IC19 Copenhagen-Århus train the rules are simple. All electronic equipment must be switched to silent mode, and conversations must be conducted in other parts of the train. The freedom of speech severely constrained, passengers enjoy a quiet working atmosphere or the chance to sleep as if in their own bed.
Scene 2:
Read moreLean in Japan by Lau Blaxekjær
In Denmark as well as the US and many other European countries Lean has developed from being a production system in the private sector to becoming a public administration management tool. Critics call it a panacea, but Lean is without any doubt a buzz word in public administration circles and applied many places. However, there […]
Read moreThe Jewel in the Riots
The Fourteenth Dalai Lama and Tibetan Freedom Fight
Trine Brox
Ph.D. Fellow, Tibetan Studies
Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies
University of Copenhagen
Human rights in China: the 2008 Olympics and beyond
Cecilie Figenschou Bakke
Director, China Programme
Norwegian Centre for Human Rights, University of Oslo
Mounting criticism of China
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