Nokia joins other foreign companies that haven’t given as much as they pledged

peijin — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 16:11:01 +0000

To China’s earthquake relief. They promised 39.5 million and have, as of June 17, only given 10.5 million RMB. In other news, if you want to know who has been giving the most , you can head on to Google China, where they have a “re bang” (ie top 25 list) of both individual donors and company donors are shown. Li Kashing is at the top of the former and some China Tobacco Co. at the top of the latter.

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Over 10,000 auditors at work on earthquake relief items/donations?

peijin — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 14:22:18 +0000

That’s what an article from Netease says. People are worried about where their donations go/went, so now there’s a whole army of accountants/auditors to make sure that the whole process is transparent and every fen is accounted for. Well, let’s hope that it works. The article says that this is the first time this kind of process has been done in China (which probably means that before, it was done after the fact) while the donations are still going on. Definitely a piece of news to keep tabs on…Technorati Tags: china, earthquake, relief, donations, charity, floods, rain, disaster, nature, news, guangzhou, guangdong, guangxi

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Nokia joins other foreign companies that haven’t given as much as they pledged

Over 10,000 auditors at work on earthquake relief items/donations?