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James Rose

Asia-Pacific Editor (former as of Feb' 06), Ethical Corporation

Email: James.Rose@ethicalcorp.com

James Rose reported from Australia on Asian affairs for Ethical Corporation from 2003 to February 2006 as Asia-Pacific Editor. From February 2006 James moved on to persue other interests.

Contributions for James Rose

• Japanese business: The fall of Horiemon

• Ethical ratings - Playing the numbers game

• Japanese construction industry - Shaken to the foundations

• Pollution in China - Cleaning up more than the chemicals

• Burma lawsuits - A Total settlement?

• Indian terrorism - Multinationals threatened by left-wing groups

• AWB and Iraqi bribes - Who knew what, when?

• Australia’s industrial relations - Working hard

• 2006 in Asia: Emerging forces, new tensions

• Thailand - A public privatisation debate

• China’s media - Murky waters

• Indonesian mining - All that glitters

• Japan is in need of a debate on privatisation

• Korean corporate governance - Samsung Blue

• CSR standards - ISO's spicy-sour dish

• Asia's environment: Green schemes

• Hong Kong

• Avian flu - Playing chicken

• Supply chain impacts - Trapping poverty

• NGO governance - Welcome to the real world

• Asbestos claims - No insulation from a dusty business

• Corporate governance - Responsible institutions, please apply

• Supply chain standards - Nice threads

• Shell in Russia’s far east - Courting controversy

• India's labour unrest - Cowboys and Indians

• Academic courses must understand what drives corporate responsibility

• Disney in Asia - Man bites mouse

• Miners aglow in Australia’s north

• The World Health Organisation: in good health?

• A victory for disclosure?

• A code of many colours

• China’s workers: a bleak outlook?

• A victory for disclosure?

• Chaebols hearing Seoul music

• Squeezing Tsutsumi

• Timor-Leste tests revenue transparency

• Korea and Uzbekistan: (un)ethical investment

• A sense of desperation

• Micro-hard on Chinese bloggers

• Philippines targets environmental slow-pokes

• Business must tackle graft through transparency

• Asia’s shame

• Rebuilding Aceh, sustainably

• Consuming passions

• Child labour: Political will required

• Radical change in the Australian workplace

• The ethics of Burma boycotts

• India gets into the Zone

• Japanese stand-off

• Reputations falling into the Sakhalin black hole

• Australian small caps: better corporate governance required

• Crashing symbols

• Chinese state sector wants foreign-trained management

• Are good intentions always enough?

• Paraquat ban debate re-ignites in Malaysian parliament

• Korea thinks local on ethics

• Major new Chinese environmental group launched

• China’s coal blight

• Further legal action for Australian logging company

• CSR watchers, look here

• Smoke on the water

• Thinking local on ethics

• Chaebol investor strategies under scrutiny

• APP under the legal spotlight in China

• Year of the (green) rooster

• Corporate social responsibility in a box, please

• Thai media freedom case gains support

• Glowing reports

• Will Asia kill Kyoto?

• The dawn of privatisation debate?

• Corporate governance high-fliers named, raising talking points

• Asian coal use contaminating northern Pacific

• Green action?

• Toyota targets kids with branded comic book

• WHO tobacco restrictions fired up in Asia

• China bites the coal bullet

• Increased sanctions possible as Burma snubs ILO

• APP decision a “landmark” for China’s environmentalists

• Report into illegal logging attacks JP Morgan

• Gunns shot

• SOE irresponsible

• Cleaning up

• Asian NGO-Corporate network launched

• Yes logo?

• China talks up mine safety, talks down death toll

• Asbestos used in post-tsunami rebuild

• Thai election result puts governance in the spotlight

• Indonesian investors can’t bank on collusion

• Total becomes latest Indonesian bankruptcy target

• China's environmental watchdog sharpens teeth

• Tsunami aid

• Governance confusion

• People power

• Who owns Bhopal?

• Australian miners seek health and safety liability changes

• Concerns raised over Tibetan mining investments by multi-nationals

• China Construction Bank cancels NYSE offering over SOX

• Apex drags Chinese governance to lower point

• Monsanto bribery case highlights tsumani aid concerns

• NGOs blocking corporate Tsunami aid

• Falling Down, Down Under

• A Cola-nisation fightback

• Korea’s chaebols: reform or removal?

• China’s ‘red wash’

• Newmont spat continues despite settlement

• Corporate donations spotlighted in tsunami aid funding

• Australian wool industry warned to take campaigning NGO seriously

• China Aviation Oil scandal puts governance in the spotlight

• James Hardie highlights the need for moral liability

• BP’s Indonesia gas project criticised by international coalition

• Cambodia holds on to buyers as garment quota system winds down

• Shareholder rebellion puts China’s ‘non-bank banks’ in focus

• Russian governance tested as Yukos break-up goes ahead

• Newmont executives to be charged over alleged Indonesia pollution

• Hong Kong retailers implored to charge for plastic bags

• Grumpy workers unite!

• Monopolising anti-monopolies law in China

• Malaysia pitches to be regional corporate responsibility capital

• Digging up trouble

• Leaked Indonesian probe finds pollution at Newmont site

• Indonesian president vows to tackle illegal loggers

• Lucent to face corruption probe in China

• Japan’s big industrial groups start carbon-trading fund

• Cola companies in more strife in India

• Pollution crisis forces Chinese companies to move home

• Logging company uses violence to get land

• Australia’s regional governments take action against James Hardie

• SK rejects demand for shareholder meeting

• CBA says employee issues are not shareholders’ concern

• Indian economy 'built on child labour'

• Japan says more holidays would be good for business

• Protest indicates growing worker unrest in China

• APP hits right note with WWF

• Chinese firms urged to adopt corporate social responsibility

• Culture sores

• Shell distances itself from Russian oil spill

• Sovereign ramps up governance campaign at SK Corp

• Timber wars rumble on

• Phone company tests Chinese monopoly law

• Australian organisations want more government action on corporate responsibility

• NGOs dispute latest ‘all clear’ on Newmont mine

• Barclays getting sticky at the equator

• Small shareholders’ voices breaking in Asia

• Anti-Australian wool campaign snares US retailer

• Confusion over News Corp governance reforms

• Newmont fires back at Indonesian NGOs

• Will labour reform bring corporate responsibility to China?

• Lack of interest in Australian responsibility index

• WWF gives conditional thumbs-up to APP

• China brings in car fuel-efficiency rules

• Australian corruption report singles out construction industry

• Most Malay companies break the law by not filing annual reports

• Pepsi ad banned in India after ‘child labour’ complaints

• Latest Mitsubishi trial underway

• Europe’s odour-measuring system may usurp Asia’s

• Korean steel maker to fund employee charity work

• Malaysian whistleblower scheme targets illegal software

• China crackdown on governance in state-owned sector

• News Corp bows to shareholders

• Malaysian prime minister urges good governance

• Raid on Japanese steel makers amid tender-collusion allegations

• Citibank faces strike and regulator probe in Korea

• New environmental labelling for Chinese products

• McDonald’s faces legal action over staff search

• Korea promotes hybrid cars

• Local government in China puts mining industry on watch

• China anti-trust office set up to encourage open market economy

• Newmont executives detained by Indonesian police

• Tourism killing popular Thai reef

• Indian campaign to kick cola companies out

• Air pollution hits new levels in Hong Kong

• China Union body backs sacked official

• Malaysia tops governance survey

• Worrying trend in Hong Kong work-life balance

• Toyota plans Prius hybrid cars for China

• James Hardie execs may face criminal charges

• Indonesian lawmakers fail to fix bankruptcy laws

• Mitsui Sumitomo factors CSR risk

• Report links corporate governance and market value

• Tibetans call for sustainable investment in the country

• Australia planned coal station cancelled over greenhouse concerns

• Metro ends APP relationship over responsibility performance

• Big business blocking labour reform says China’s union body

• Cantor Fitzgerald Japan under investigation over securities regulations

• Australian businesses attack government’s climate change policy

• Barclays’ controversial gas project going ahead

• Concerns over Coca-Cola’s funding of Australian health report

• BHP Billiton talks up sustainability

• China launches sustainable investment strategy

• Corporate responsibility: it’s all about control … and how to give it up

• Indonesian police to question Newmont executive in mercury case

• Australian former bank director breaks silence

• Gates foundation to invest in China

• Shell dodges reserves issue at corporate responsibility forum

• Starbucks CSR rep ‘culturally insensitive’ at Asian ethics event

• China to boost government investment accountability

• Indonesian government urges buyers to stick with APP

• Coke falls victim to claims of addictive additives rumour in China

• New micro-finance model launched in India

• Polluting Chinese companies to be denied stock market access

• Australian corporate responsibility index says ‘more work needed’

• New fund for family-friendly workplaces in Singapore

• McDonald’s protects Big Mac trademark in Philippines

• Music majors investigated for collusion in Japan

• Russian Shell subsidiary considers impact on whales

• Korean power company signals sustainable strategy

• Australian banana fuel on the menu

• Company bosses are Korea's biggest earners

• Korean bank boss takes the rap for accounting infringement

• “Creating a buzz” - An interview with Stephen Loke

• Japan Tobacco hit by Canadian smuggling verdict

• Corruption reporters in China face violence

• Newmont pulls out of controversial Indonesian mine

• Survey finds NZ businesses 'socially engaged'

• Australian researchers develop biodegradable plastic bags

• Chinese government gets heavy on river polluters

• Korea expects wave of shareholder class actions

• Chinese regulators empower shareholders

• Call for co-operation to stop illegal logging in South-east Asia

• Polluting Chinese companies will be denied stock market access

• Thai companies get solar funding

• HP in New Zealand to take unwanted computers

• Taiwan fund may be a political front

• Forests become more sustainable in Asia-Pacific

• Chinese whistleblower case becomes power struggle

• Confusion over Newmont allegations in Indonesia

• Fatal nuclear accident in Japan highlights safety loopholes

• Hong Kong property developers ‘unsustainable’

• Cambodian Arbitration Council rules against Raffles in worker dispute

• Fast-food giants caught out in Korean labour report

• US trade adviser says US drug makers acting as ‘bullies’ over Australia trade pact

• Taiwan’s multinationals told to improve corporate responsibility

• Thailand seeks to become centre for eco-car production

• Korea gives renewable-energy tax incentives

• UK draws fire for farming out defence manufacture to China

• Australia’s investment managers fail on disclosure

• Sanyo in venture with company embroiled in Chinese workers scandal

• Investigation traces Indo-Malaysian illegal timber ring

• Japanese bank shareholders sue management

• Drug companies’ global ploy revealed, say critics

• Conference report: a new phase of corporate social responsibility in Asia

• A new phase of corporate responsibility in Asia

• Company plans to save elephants via dung products

• Japan to start carbon-trading market

• Corporate responsibility and cultural change in Asian mining

• Indonesia directors face axe over ‘back door’ asset sales

• Adidas-Salomon drops Korean supplier amid worker campaign

• Environment companies are cleaning up in China

• Environment groups seeks to close Newcrest mine in Indonesia

• UFJ admits forgery and obstruction

• India's Global Trust Bank halts withdrawals

• Environmentalists pursue Newmont in Indonesia

• Sustainability reporting on the rise in Australia

• Government to support recycling industry

• LG-Caltex strike highlights Korea's labour unrest

• Calpers looks to invest in India

• Report spotlights China's steel-sector corruption

• WWF asks APP’s customers to buy their paper elsewhere

• Panic over rumoured need for SA8000 accreditation

• Thailand launches renewable energy drive

• Corporate responsibility in Japan: evolving and unpredictable

• BAT makes surprise China announcement

• Ok Tedi mine fails BHP’s ethics test

• Procomp becomes ‘Taiwan’s Enron’

• Environmental authority targets big polluters

• ‘Unethical accountants’ subject of new bill

• Asia-Pacific corporate social responsibility network is launched

• Mitsubishi names independent ethics committee members

• James Hardie to raise funds for asbestos claims

• Singapore companies must expense stock options

• Aids in Asia is killing economies

• Hong Kong companies warned of human rights risks

• Miners operating in Chile may face new tax

• Korean unions and bosses signal a warming of relations

• Tough new regulations for chinese vehicle emissions

• Rio Tinto under 'conflict of interest' scrutiny

• Social reporting in Japan a growing trend

• Top brokers sacked amid bankruptcy scare

• HIV/Aids guide launched for companies in Thailand

• James Hardie may have misled over asbestos liabilities

• Dispute over blame for Shell oil spill

• KFC will stay out of Tibet

• Poor corporate governance a barrier to China-EU trade

• Malaysian government backs greater corporate responsibility

• ‘Green GDP’ will take account of environmental impact

• Australian cigarette warnings to be toughened

• Dalai Lama wants KFC out of Tibet

• Halliburton acts on bribery investigation

• WWF and the APP partnership – a lesson learnt

• Multinational charity pioneers sought

• Unions target Raffles following legal ruling

• Chinese companies a risk to environment and themselves, report says

• Insurer seeks reimbursement from Mitsubishi

• McDonald’s bites back at critical documentary

• Watchdog attacks Cambodian logging monitors

• Market regulator bolsters international links

• Child-labour activist Satyarthi attacked during circus raid

• Lessons in doing business in Indonesia

• Australian wine industry to develop environment plan

• Japan regulator probes tyre makers' military contract bids

• UFJ Bank cuts executive pay by half after poor results

• Major stockbroker fraud case gets underway

• HHG asked to explain after shareholder meeting debacle

• Corruption is slowing steel-industry growth

• Asia-Pacific governments commit to sustainable tourism

• Indocement announces cement industry's first greenhouse plan

• Australian regulator reports financial-sector perks

• Another former Mitsubishi boss arrested

• China stock-market fraudster gets ‘soft’ three years

• Food industry mistreats young employees

• Prudential appeal win may lead to Indonesian law reform

• PetroVietnam executive arrested on corruption charges

• Korean unions launch major strikes

• Credit Suisse in Japanese laundering investigation

• Oceanic challenges Timor PM on bribery charges

• China makes major renewable energy commitment

• Wal-Mart gets an ‘F’ for human rights

• Shareholder activism arrives in Japan as Mitsubishi scandal widens

• Asian CR improving says report

• Singapore wants more non-profit groups

• Japanese former bank executives sentenced for accounts cover-up

• Chinese government to take on miners

• Japan report says profile of corporate responsibility is growing

• Union battle looms at Qantas

• Former Rite Aid boss gets eight years

• Infosys: poverty reduction needs honest companies

• Industry urged to fix ballast water problem

• Vietnamese telecom companies in corruption crisis

• Shell faces shareholder pressure on governance

• Cambodian garment industry under threat

• Mitsubishi plans ethics-led recovery

• Spitzer seeks $100m from Grasso, saying pay package was 'illegal'

• Iraq contractor says Halliburton has not paid up

• Global union weighs in to Colombian dispute

• Safeway’s Burd survives shareholder vote

• Oil-for-food programme spotlights moral dilemma

• China Life case may reveal governance shortcomings

• SBC Communications faces four-day strike

• Union cries foul over Raffles 'settlement'

• Enron executive admits illegal trading

• Concerns over China’s nuclear energy boom

• Multinationals in India fail on CSR

• FTSE4Good chosen by Japanese fund

• Australian carbon lobby creates impasse on Kyoto

• Occidental invites Amnesty to Colombian facility

• China looks to alternative energy

• Holding Asia to ransom - the dead hand of corporate corruption

• Mitsubishi bosses arrested over

• Mitsubishi bosses arrested in fault cover-up investigation

• Korean watchdog bites big business

• NAB board shake-up amid governance row

• Spitzer targets insurance sector

• Cola Wars on HIV/AIDS

• Hong Kong market regulators get tougher

• China Life: governance under spotlight

• Para-militaries alleged to be protecting Occidental pipeline

• Report finds more women succeeding in U.S. business

• India bans tobacco advertising

• No safe way out for Safeway directors despite governance action

• Shareholder activists push energy companies to improve environmental reporting

• Singapore introduces ‘anti-cronyism’ laws

• Companies implicated in Iraqi oil-for-food kickbacks may be subject of UN inquiry

• Report finds Australian companies slow to respond to ethics demands

• Newcrest faces legal action by local opponents to gold mine

• Directors may face courts in Prudential bankruptcy case

• Halliburton announces war-fed upswing

• Labour concerns as Shell announces major job cuts

• China Life’s SEC probe may suggest governance ‘black hole’

• Janus admits two-faced capitalism, agrees to pay compensation

• Trader on trial for shredding records blames CSFB culture

• Computer Associates seeks to dampen fraud investigation

• Prudential Life in moral dilemma as bankruptcy filing bites

• Procter and Gamble chips in to US Government’s safe water initiative

• Gap Inc and Unite shake hands on sweatshops, for now

• Agreement between Rio Tinto subsidiary and traditional owners over uranium mine

• Fujitsu announces world-first eco computer

• Shell game may lead to governance shake up

• KFC looks to Tibet, raising ire of NGOs

• Anita Roddick’s anti-sweatshops campaign under fire

• CalPERS declares proxy war on Big Business boards

• Death penalty for illegal loggers, but NGOs sceptical

• Bank of America signs up to environmental benchmark despite not fitting agenda

• Charges against deputy-chair over Australia’s biggest corporate collapse heard

• McDonald's to work with government on obesity

• Singapore governance tested as hidden shareholdings probe widens

• Battle over Korean conglomerates’ governance reforms heats up

• Board crisis at Telstra

• Lucent takes tough anti-bribery action

• Rio’s uranium contamination scare grows as indigenous group calls for regulatory overhaul

• HP Asia makes play for environmental high ground

• WWF won’t give up on corporate partnerships despite APP set-back

• Crisis widens at National Australia Bank as regulator hits hard

• US Government suppliers caught out on Burmese out-sourcing

• American Union hones business case strategy on China’s human rights

• Philippines wins reprieve from CalPERS amid claims of ‘bias’

• Unethical companies are winning the illegal logging war, government admits

• Indonesian business group proposes ‘green tax incentive’

• Rallies put Australian forestry industry in the firing line

• Philippine companies get behind government’s anti-poverty drive

• NAB board ducks for cover following damning report on governance

• Antam implicated in gold mine fire disaster

• Taiwan’s corporate and political corruption exposed

• Corporate governance on the agenda in Australia

• NGOs spotlight Asian outworkers in lead up to Olympics

• Directors must pass ‘honesty test’ under new governance laws

• ConocoPhillips embroiled in legal battle over East Timor concessions rights

• POSCO enacts governance reform as “Chaebols” come under fire

• Rainforest Action Network targets Weyerhaeuser in global campaign

• SK Telecom directors resign in face of better governance campaign

• Australian workers protest against Telstra outsourcing

• Criminal charges for One.Tel directors unrealistic, claims regulator

• Australian CR Index drops NGO raters

• Bristol-Myers Squibb backs down on Thai Aids patents

• Asia-Pacific corporate responsibility network mooted

• Australian companies suffering without Kyoto

• International union targets Chubb over East Timor conditions

• Cambodian anti-sweatshop campaigner murdered

• Australian government criticised over greenhouse gas benchmarks announcement

• BHP Billiton assesses human rights risk

• Construction firm says no more $$$ for asbestos claims

• Australian greenhouse gas programme falters

• Aussie miner unmoved by protestor fatality

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