Global Voices Online

Jae Young Lee from Ohmynews reports on E-Land, a company specializing in the fashion business and distribution industry, and its recent conflict with temporary workers.

Fang Jun from Mindmeter started the chain blogging on “the most ‘er' (literally means 'second', extended meaning: ‘inferior' and ‘er') internet company” in China. His choice are: Sina (stops photo sharing), Focusmedia (too much ads), Google (failure in pinyin typing entry), Myspace China and Baidu Japan (zh).

Wang Xiaofeng's choice are: Sina, Sohu, Yahoo (cn), 3721 and blogcn (zh).

Asia Sentinel has an article reporting about Asia’s richest tycoons Li Ka-Shing's business strategy in Hong Kong and China: His flagship companies Hutchison Whampoa and Cheung Kong are big, top-tier and world famous, owned by investors around the globe… Less well-known is that the Hutch empire is also one of the cheapest outfits you’d ever want to do business with – but the secret is becoming increasingly less “best kept”.

In the weekend, some lawyers-bloggers got together for a joint letter to sina.com complaining about their editorial policy which has violated bloggers' freedom of speech. ESWN has translated the letter into English.

Chong translated a citizen report by Lung at interlocals.net on the closure of Disney's factory which is found having environmental and labour problems. However, about 800 workers were left unemployed and the factory failed to pay workers various compensations, a total of 4-5 million Yuan.

Karel McIntosh reports that a chamber of commerce in Trinidad has become the first indigenous signatory to United Nations Global Compact, the world’s largest voluntary corporate responsibility initiative.

Hong Kong civil society is having its first social forum this week, a series of pre-conference citizen reports about grassroots workers conditions, migrant domestic workers (zh), gay and lesbian movement (zh), corprate social responsibility issues (zh), etc can be found online at inmediahk.net (zh).

Further Ramblings of a N.Irish Magyar writes about Tesco-Global Stores' “skeletons in the closet.”