GLOBAL NOTES #15
by Jerry Harris
.Starbucks in China’s Forbidden City
Starbucks Forbidden City location has been called an “affront to Chinese culture” in a protest by netizens to get the coffee shop relocated. China has 123 million people on-line where the campaign has found a home on blogs. Writes Rui Chenggang, “This is not globalization but abuse of Chinese culture.”
. Tesco to use carbon labels
Tesco is a UK corporation and the world’s fifth largest retail chain. It recently announced it will create an index (more…)
