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Paul French, China Editor

China Editor, Ethical Corporation

Email: paul@accessasia.co.uk
Website: www.accessasia.co.uk

Paul French is a Partner in the China and UK based research publisher Access Asia. He is based in Shanghai. Paul writes a regular column on Asian issues for Ethical Corporation.. Paul's latest book: "Carl Crow - A Tough Old China Hand: The Life, Times and Adventures of an American in Shanghai" is available at amazon.com. His previous book is "North Korea: The Paranoid Peninsula, A Modern History".

Contributions for Paul French, China Editor

• China column – Breaking the resource curse in Mongolia

• China column – Is China ready to go green?

• Some Christmas 2009 reading about China

• China column – Bye-bye backhanders

• China column – Burma listens to China and India

• Tesco and Carrefour: At least two companies make an effort in pressure free China

• China column: Chinese companies – Held back by the governance gap

• Chinese earthquake donations: Straight to government coffers

• China column – Chinese charity back in closet

• China column – Shopping begins at home

• The last word: Chinese employment – Unsackable but exploitable

• Paper recycling – China’s rubbish economy

• China column: Unemployment – Extended leave

• China column: Green goals at low prices

• China’s eco-towns: Green communities – To go eco, think small

• China's milk scandal: a bad response is followed by something more sensible

• Special report: Shipping – Emissions reductions all at sea

• Business ethics: Five books on China that might prove useful

• Philanthropy – China starts to give

• Podcast series on shipping, sustainability, piracy and globalisation

• The last word: Green retail – In China, every little helps

• Olympic legacy – China’s post party clean up

• The last word: Disaster relief – Helping others to help yourself

• China visas, ethics and Christmas: If you can't get in, you can't audit and order

• Asia column: organised crime – The darker side of China’s rise

• Last word: Beijing 2008 - For now, business and sport as usual

• Asia column: Cheap in China – Low-cost sourcing’s high price

• Dongtan – The line changes on the greenwash eco city in China

• Tony Parsons, China and CSR

• Asia column: China’s labour law – Turbo-charged growth, but standards stay lax

• China: Cutting down on plastic

• Asia column: Bangladesh – Rejuvenating an age-old problem

• Dodgy Dongtan to get a dodgy neighbour?

• Arup and Dongtan, worthy winner of Greenwasher of the year

• Drugs, doctors, Big Pharma, China’s health and dodgy practices

• Carrefour in China: A quick note on stampedes…and so called links to inflation

• Kyoto misses Kyoto - lessons for China's cities

• Burma – China holds the key to Rangoon

• China: Time for Western brands to give a lead in eco-tailing

• The last word: Consumer concerns – Product recalls and all the pork in China

• Vietnam – The latest tiger has teeth

• North Korea: A roadmap towards more business investment has begun

• China's environment: Rejigging the bonus system…at last

• China’s extreme weather - it’s official, and it’s global warming

• Chinese pollution - Internal displacement is the new game in town

• China's labour laws - an update on the lobbying shenanigans

• Climate change in China: Live Earth Shanghai – a total greenwash

• Biofuels in China: Before we all get carried away

• Sovereign wealth – China’s new political currency

• Global warming in Asia: Six degrees and China

• Dongtan update - the paranoia sets in while the carbon footprint expands

• Paved over paradise? Everest gets an autobahn

• Labour allocation in China…some consequences

• Asia column – War games link Beijing 2008 with Darfur

• What‘s the carbon footprint of a prawn?

• China and dodgy politicians: The road to a lucrative directorship?

• Asia column – China’s disease of workplace discrimination

• 'Worn Again' brand trainers find political endorsement tricky

• Asia column – Health warning: North Korea

• Consumerism – China’s iPod revolution

• Chinese corporate governance – Getting better, but still at the bottom

• China’s mobile workforce – Goodbye migrant workers, hello new urban citizens

• North Korea and the accidental investors

• What will corporate governance look like in China?

• Mongolia: A future flash point for big companies in Asia?

• The Asia column – The grey grey skies of home

• The Asia Column – Beijing 2008 – China's Olympic reputation risk

• North Korea - Memo from Pyongyang

• Pollution in China - Big foreign knuckles rapped

• North Korea’s bomb - Fuse that finally blew

• The Asia Column - In China, ‘tis the season of bad cheer and squeezed margins

• The Asia column: Elephants in Beijing

• Accentuate the positive … or else

• Letter from Shanghai

• The Asia column - China’s corruption crackdown

• Governance - the dawn of an unholy alliance in China

• New China Podcast now online - China's unions, environment, the 2008 Olympics, labour standards, media freedom, and more

• China's media - The Xinhua Gambit

• Investing in the north

• The Asia column - When is a union not a union?

• The Asia column – Korea and investing in the North

• The Asia column - Capitalism and China: Banking on foreign investors

• Cleaning up China’s banking system: Mission impossible?

• Self censorship in China - The downside of the one billion dream

• Outer Mongolia

• What happens in China when disaster strikes

• North Korea

• China

• BAT's North Korean secret

• Prosecutors, anti-corruption and the boardroom

• The litigious society, Chinese style

• Some slogans are better than others

• A bunch of dodgy bankers

• Hep-B getting lost in the Chinese HIV/Aids debate

• How bad health and safety practice changed China, twice

• Tied by trade, split by students

• China’s coal crisis – a lack of power kills

• Some good reading on China

• This year we’ve outsourced Christmas to China

• The Chinese entrepreneur’s view of corporate responsibility

• China and the local capos

• China is different - companies need to do their homework

• Intellectual property – A fatal flaw in China

• Cisco claims victory in China intellectual property settlement

• China roads boss sacked for taking bribes

• China’s Huawei accused of spying on Fujitsu

• China still a problem for Gap

• Google and Yahoo criticised over censorship in China

• Rumour, gossip and alarmism in China

• Tax in China – if it moves, tax it

• The law in China – a moveable feast

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