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In this episode of Lung Cancer Considered, host Dr. Stephen Liu leads a discussion on the FDA approval of perioperative nivolumab based on the Phase III CheckMate 77T study. Perioperative therapy has improved outcomes in patients with resectable NSCLC and is emerging as best practice but there is nuance to the delivery of this therapy. Guest: Dr. Tina Cascone is a Physician-Scientist and Associate Professor in the Department of Thoracic/Head and Neck Medical Oncology at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, Texas and lead author of the CheckMate 77T manuscript in the New England Journal of Medicine Guest: Dr. Shun Lu is the Chief of Shanghai Lung Cancer Center and Shanghai Chest Hospital and Professor at Shanghai Jiaotong University. He is an executive board member of the Chinese Society of Clinical Oncology and past chair of Chinese Lung Cancer Association

Around the same time as launching Mosaic of China, I also embarked on a period of study at Shanghai Jiaotong University, starting with a course in Mandarin language followed by a Masters in Modern Chinese Studies. In today's special bonus episode, I discuss a little of what I learnt with Jason Smith and Beibei from CGTN's 'The Bridge' podcast. In our chat recorded earlier this year, we talk about Chinese philosophy, as well as some of the similarities and differences between life in China versus Singapore.   A big thanks to Jason and the team at The Bridge for giving me permission to share this edited version on the feed for Mosaic of China. The original full episode can be found at https://radio.cgtn.com/podcast/news/5/Podcast-Meets-Podcast-We-playfully-invite-a-fellow-podcaster-on-as-a-guest/2707087.   Chapters 00:00 - Trailer & Intro 02:04 - Main   Subscribe to the PREMIUM version, see the visuals, and/or follow the full transcript for this episode at: https://mosaicofchina.com/season-03-bonus-the-bridge.   Join the community: Instagram https://instagram.com/oscology LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/company/mosaicofchina Facebook https://facebook.com/mosaicofchina WeChat https://mosaicofchina.com/wechat

Around the same time as launching Mosaic of China, I also embarked on a period of study at Shanghai Jiaotong University, starting with a course in Mandarin language followed by a Masters in Modern Chinese Studies. In today's special bonus episode, I discuss a little of what I learnt with Jason Smith and Beibei from CGTN's 'The Bridge' podcast. In our chat recorded earlier this year, we talk about Chinese philosophy, as well as some of the similarities and differences between life in China versus Singapore.A big thanks to Jason and the team at The Bridge for giving me permission to share this edited version on the feed for Mosaic of China.

A note from Talking Taiwan host Felicia Lin:   In this episode of Talking Taiwan, my guests are Richard Pearson, the Executive Director of the Western Pacific Fellowship Project and Professor Shelley Rigger. We will be talking about the Taiwan Fellowship Act, a bill which has been decades in the making, and was inspired by the Mansfield Fellowship. This bill which has gotten bipartisan support in both the U.S. and Taiwan. It has been added to the COMPETES Act, and has also passed through both the U.S. House of Representatives and Senate in slightly different versions. Now the House and Senate are in conference committee to resolve differences in order to come up with a final version of the bill.   Learn more about what the Taiwan Fellowship Act is, how it serves to strengthen U.S.-Taiwan ties, why you should care about it, and how you can support passage of this bill in to law.   About Richard Pearson:   Richard Pearson is Executive Director of the Western Pacific Fellowship Project and Managing Director, Taiwan Fellowship. He has roughly two decades of experience in U.S.-Asia economic relations and the political-economy of the Asia-Pacific largely in the public service sector.   Mr. Pearson's professional experience includes time as a business reporter based in Taipei and in public service focusing on the Indo-Pacific. From 2010-2014 Mr. Pearson was an Associate Director at the Maureen and Mike Mansfield Foundation during which time he originally conceived and explored the Taiwan Fellowship concept. Along with Ryan Shaffer and former AIT Director and Chairman Ambassador Raymond Burghardt, Mr. Pearson founded the Western Pacific Fellowship Project in late-2019 to operationalize the Taiwan Fellowship.   Mr. Pearson received his undergraduate degree from St. Olaf College and his graduate degree from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy. Immediately after college, he held a Fulbright scholarship to Taiwan. His essays on U.S.-Asia relations have been published in various outlets in the U.S. and East Asia including the Taipei Times and The Diplomat.   About Shelley Rigger: Shelley Rigger is the Brown Professor of East Asian Politics at Davidson College. She has a PhD in Government from Harvard University and a BA in Public and International Affairs from Princeton University. She has been a Fulbright scholar at National Taiwan University (2019), a visiting researcher at National Chengchi University in Taiwan (2005) and a visiting professor at Fudan University (2006) and Shanghai Jiaotong University (2013 & 2015). She is a non-resident fellow of the China Policy Institute at Nottingham University and a senior fellow of the Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI). She is also a director of The Taiwan Fund, a closed-end investment fund specializing in Taiwan-listed companies. Rigger is the author of two books on Taiwan's domestic politics, Politics in Taiwan: Voting for Democracy (Routledge 1999) and From Opposition to Power: Taiwan's Democratic Progressive Party (Lynne Rienner Publishers 2001). She has published two books for general readers, Why Taiwan Matters: Small Island, Global Powerhouse (2011) and The Tiger Leading the Dragon: How Taiwan Propelled China's Economic Rise (2021). She has published articles on Taiwan's domestic politics, the national identity issue in Taiwan-China relations and related topics. In 2019-20 she was a Fulbright Senior Scholar based in Taipei, where she worked on a study of Taiwan's contributions to the PRC's economic take-off and a study of Taiwanese youth.   Here's a little preview of what we talked about in this podcast episode:   The COMPETES Act and the Taiwan Fellowship Act, what they are and the background The Western Pacific Fellowship Project How the China Bill in the COMPETES Act aims to strengthen the U.S. response and monitoring of China's economic activity, and political and security moves globally How the COMPETES Act aims to strengthen the U.S. semiconductor industry How the COMPETES Act contains a bill to change the name TECRO (Taipei Economic and Cultural Representative Office) change to Taiwan Representative Office is a part of the Competes How the Taiwan Fellowship Act fits into the larger question of the U.S.'s response to China What the Taiwan Fellowship Act is The Mike Mansfield Fellowship Why Americans should care about getting the Taiwan Fellowship Act passed Why Taiwan matters on its own, apart from China What is the procedure for an Act to get passed and what stage the Taiwan Fellowship Act is currently at The many Taiwanese American civic groups that support the Taiwan Fellowship Act For those who'd like to support the Taiwan Fellowship Act and see it get passed in to law, now is a crucial period; they should contact their members of congress to express their support for getting it passed You can write an email to your member of congress through an automated form on FAPA's (Formosan Association of Public Affairs) website How the Mansfield Fellowship came from congress vs. the Taiwan Fellowship which has been a more grassroots effort U.S. sentiment toward Japan in the mid-1990s How Richard worked at the Mansfield Foundation and learned the value of the Mansfield Fellowship in strengthening the U.S.-Japan relationship How Richard spent time in Taiwan in 2000 and realized that there could be value in creating a fellowship program similar to the Mansfield Fellowship with Taiwan How Richard has been working on the Taiwan Fellowship Act since 2010 How now seems to be the one chance to get the Taiwan Fellowship Act passed If passed the Taiwan Fellowship could endure for decades like the Mansfield Fellowship What will happen if the Taiwan Fellowship Act doesn't get passed Reaction and support for the Taiwan Fellowship Act in Taiwan How the Taiwan Fellowship Act had gotten bipartisan support in both Taiwan (pan-Green and pan-Blue) and in the U.S. (Democrats and Republicans) How the Western Pacific Fellowship Project is a volunteer-led organization and its funding needs How there are a lot of the leading figures in US-Taiwan relations among the Western Pacific Fellowship Project's directors and advisors Shelley's support of the Taiwan Fellowship Act Why there has been such broad support for the Taiwan Fellowship Act   Related Links: https://talkingtaiwan.com/why-you-should-care-about-the-taiwan-fellowship-act-a-discussion-with-richard-pearson-and-shelley-rigger-ep-189/

Farand Anugerah is the cofounder of Segari, an Indonesia-based fresh produce grocery commerce upstart that he founded during the onset of COVID outbreak. Started with a simple mission to help his mom - who suffers acute asthma - to buy groceries, Segari later got seed funded and has been growing at a high double digit growth rate month to month since then. Segari is well positioned to enable thousands of households to get their daily quality fresh produce needs in the most affordable and convenient fashion. In his own tiny way, he aspires to be able to disrupt the legacy food supply chain, which is tainted with multiple layers of middlemen. Prior to founding Segari, he headed various departments at Grab Indonesia and the Philippines. Farand received his Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from Shanghai Jiaotong University and is currently taking gap years from Harvard Business School. Show notes at: https://www.jeremyau.com/blog/farand-anugerah You can find the community discussion for this episode at: https://club.jeremyau.com/c/podcasts/farand-anugerah

Chris Marquis is the Samuel C. Johnson Professor in Sustainable Global Enterprise and Professor of Management at the Cornell University Johnson College of Business. Prior to joining Cornell, he worked for 10 years at Harvard Business School and has held visiting positions at Harvard Kennedy School, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Peking University, Fudan University, and Shanghai Jiaotong University. Chris received a PhD in sociology and business administration from the University of Michigan. These research projects build on Chris' earlier research on how business can have a positive impact on society and in particular how historical and geographical processes have shaped firms' and entrepreneurs' social and environmental strategies and activities. He is one of the foremost authorities today on the intersection of corporate social responsibility and strategy. His latest book, Better Business: How the B Corp Movement Is Remaking Capitalism, focuses on the potential for stakeholder governance models to reform capitalism. Chris believes that businesses have a big role to play in a capitalist society. In this podcast he shares: Why corporations need to pursue both positive social impact and profit—and why we no longer get to choose A fascinating concept called “Universal Ownership Theory,” that could explain why suddenly (seemingly) corporations are awakening to this need A practical first step you can help to help your company start embracing multi-stakeholder approach __________________________________________________________________________________________"This is where I think the strategist is so important because something like a 'net zero commitment' is easy to say, but actually how to get there is a lot harder. And I think that's where strategy can play a really big role is actually in ways of transforming the company to meet a bold and important objective, like being net zero."-Chris Marquis__________________________________________________________________________________________Episode Timeline:00:00—Introducing Chris Marquis + The topic of today's episode2:10—If you really know me, you know that...2:40—What is your definition of strategy?3:08—What got you interested in strategy?3:44—What are you most well-known for?4:29—Can you describe a B corp for us?5:13—Why is it valuable for a company or strategy to be looking at this type of strategic rationale?6:08—Why do you think the ESG and B Corp movement is happening now?7:38—Can you help shatter the myth that B Corps must be socially-driven, small entrepreneurial entities?10:22—What have you changed your mind about with regard to B Corps?11:13—Is there a set of tools, leverage points or framework a strategist can look at to align the company behind multi-stakeholder benefit?12:51—Where do you see the future relationship of corporations and stakeholders in society? 14:13—What do you think should be the first steps and agenda for a strategist looking to implement these ideas into their company?15:43—Of all the strategic advice you've ever gotten, what has been most impactful for you?16:35—Could you tell us about "Universal Ownership Theory"?17:36—What are you working on now and how can people connect with you?__________________________________________________________________________________________Additional Resources:Personal website: https://www.chrismarquis.com/better_businessLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chris-marquis-3884834/

Chris Marquis is the Samuel C. Johnson Professor in Sustainable Global Enterprise and Professor of Management at the Cornell University Johnson College of Business. Prior to joining Cornell, he worked for 10 years at Harvard Business School and has held visiting positions at Harvard Kennedy School, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Peking University, Fudan University, and Shanghai Jiaotong University. Chris received a PhD in sociology and business administration from the University of Michigan. These research projects build on Chris' earlier research on how business can have a positive impact on society and in particular how historical and geographical processes have shaped firms' and entrepreneurs' social and environmental strategies and activities. He is one of the foremost authorities today on the intersection of corporate social responsibility and strategy. His latest book, Better Business: How the B Corp Movement Is Remaking Capitalism, focuses on the potential for stakeholder governance models to reform capitalism. Chris believes that businesses have a big role to play in a capitalist society. In this podcast he shares: Why corporations need to pursue both positive social impact and profit—and why we no longer get to choose A fascinating concept called “Universal Ownership Theory,” that could explain why suddenly (seemingly) corporations are awakening to this need A practical first step you can help to help your company start embracing multi-stakeholder approach __________________________________________________________________________________________"This is where I think the strategist is so important because something like a 'net zero commitment' is easy to say, but actually how to get there is a lot harder. And I think that's where strategy can play a really big role is actually in ways of transforming the company to meet a bold and important objective, like being net zero."-Chris Marquis__________________________________________________________________________________________Episode Timeline:00:00—Introducing Chris Marquis + The topic of today's episode2:10—If you really know me, you know that...2:40—What is your definition of strategy?3:08—What got you interested in strategy?3:44—What are you most well-known for?4:29—Can you describe a B corp for us?5:13—Why is it valuable for a company or strategy to be looking at this type of strategic rationale?6:08—Why do you think the ESG and B Corp movement is happening now?7:38—Can you help shatter the myth that B Corps must be socially-driven, small entrepreneurial entities?10:22—What have you changed your mind about with regard to B Corps?11:13—Is there a set of tools, leverage points or framework a strategist can look at to align the company behind multi-stakeholder benefit?12:51—Where do you see the future relationship of corporations and stakeholders in society? 14:13—What do you think should be the first steps and agenda for a strategist looking to implement these ideas into their company?15:43—Of all the strategic advice you've ever gotten, what has been most impactful for you?16:35—Could you tell us about "Universal Ownership Theory"?17:36—What are you working on now and how can people connect with you?__________________________________________________________________________________________Additional Resources:Personal website: https://www.chrismarquis.com/better_businessLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chris-marquis-3884834/

SAN ENG is the President of Skytian Capital, which deployed  over $500 million in capital •He is the  Wall Street Journal & USA Today best-selling author of the book titled: Ten Commandments of Investing, Guiding Principles from the World's Greatest Investment Wizards Previously, he ran a $100m funds voted “Top 30 in China”As an entrepreneur, led 8 ventures raised $150m+ capital include one throughthe IPO processWas also the Asst Professor  at prestigious Shanghai Jiaotong University where he taught credit course on investmentsHe is also the Father to 3 amazing teenage girls; speak 3 languages and has  lived in over 12 countries and visited 60 countries

Lixiang Baumann is the Country Head for China Mobile International (CMI) South Africa and Southern Africa area. Lixiang is responsible for CMI South Africa and Southern Africa overall strategy, business development, operation as well as local partner management. Her strategic focus areas cover carrier business, enterprises business, mobile and platform business across the region. CMI offers a full range of international telecommunication services to global carrier partners and enterprises customers, including data connectivity, voice, IPX, A2P, IoT and various custom-made enterprise solutions. Lixiang has over 19 years of experience in the telecommunication industry, majority of the 16 years spent in South Africa and Africa telecommunication market. Starting her career as a transmission engineer in Huawei in 2001, Lixiang later on held various senior management positions in ZTE Africa. Lixiang has been living in South Africa for the last 16 years with her family. She holds a Bachelor of Mechanical Engineering from Shanghai Jiaotong University and a MBA from Wits Business School in Johannesburg.

Topics Discussed and Key Points:●      Commercial and residential real estate trends in China from 2008 to 2011●      How real estate investors tend to operate in the China market●      Where the real estate industry is going in the next ten years●      Why China's economic future may mirror that of Japan's●      China in the new normal●      Property Passbook's mission●      Running a global business based in Shanghai●      How COVID-19 has changed real estate planning in China Episode Summary:Today on The Negotiation, we speak with Colin Bogar, CEO and Head of Product Development at Property Passbook. His 12-year journey in China also saw him as Chairman on the Board of Advisors for The Canadian Chamber of Commerce in Shanghai, an Associate Professor at Shanghai Jiaotong University, the Managing Director of MGI Pacific, and Head of Research at Colliers International.Colin discusses his observations on both the commercial and residential real estate markets in China over his decade-long career. With regards to urbanization today, he touches on how bigger cities tend to have a much greater influx of new residents looking for opportunity as opposed to the country. Anecdotally, the first-tier cities of Shanghai, Beijing, and Shenzhen have seen the most growth during Colin's time. Second Tier cities and below are not expected to see growth anywhere near the same pace as populations and wages stagnate.Listen in as Colin goes on to share how COVID-19 affected the real estate market both financially and around health and sanitation, projected reductions in investments toward office spaces in a post-COVID world, the aim of his startup Property Passbook, the advantages of doing business as an expat in the melting pot that is Shanghai, and whether or not megacities are soon going to be a thing of the past. Key Quotes:“Real estate developers in China today are less concerned with green as much as they are with health.” “People in Western countries tend to want to be green and do the right things to fight global warming, but sometimes their solutions are not the most practical.” “By doing business in Shanghai, you have a pulse on the direction in which the world is going.” “COVID-19 and tensions with the U.S. aside, it's hard not to be extremely optimistic about China's economic future.” “Soon, travel to China is going to bounce back in a bigger way than most people would imagine.”

Alexander Petersen is the Co-founder and CEO of LAIBA Beverages, Asia's leading bottled cocktail brand. The company has humble beginnings, starting in a small apartment – now, a short three years later, employing over 30 members of staff across 5 countries, with offices in Shanghai, Bangkok and London. Having secured millions of dollars in funding, LAIBA Beverages has gone on to partner with multiple hotels, airlines and cruise line companies worldwide, with their e-commerce platforms selling cocktails all across Asia, with Europe launching soon. Website: http://laibabeverages.com/ Alex has lived in China for over 7 years and was previously the Managing Director for a Danish IT company. Alex was also the President for the Danish Young Professionals in China and was named the Danish Chamber of Commerce Entrepreneur of the Year 2020. Recently, together with Peddlers Gin Company, LAIBA won the Visionary Award at the DRiNK Awards, the industry's most prestigious award ceremony, for their Bar in a Bottle project which was released in February when Covid was hitting the bar industry in China the hardest. Earlier this year Alex also graduated from the local MBA, taught in Chinese, at Shanghai Jiaotong University. EO Shanghai: https://www.eonetwork.org/shanghai

Sunny Lu is the Co-Founder and CEO of VeChain. Launched in 2015, VeChain connects blockchain technology to the real world by providing a comprehensive governance structure, a robust economic model, and IoT integration. VeChain is the pioneer of real-world applications using public blockchain technology, with international operations in Singapore, Luxembourg, Tokyo, Shanghai, Paris, Hong Kong, and San Francisco. Together with their strategic partners PwC and DNV GL, VeChain has established cooperative relations with many leading enterprises in different industries, including Walmart China, BMW, BYD Auto, Haier, H&M, LVMH, D.I.G, ENN, Shanghai Gas, AWS, PICC, ASI etc. Website: www.vechain.com ; www.vechain.org Sunny has over 17 years of management experience with a solid technical background. He created and implemented large scale IT and information security projects. His most recent role prior to co-founding VeChain, was the CIO for Louis Vuitton China (part of LVMH Group). Sunny was educated at Shanghai JiaoTong University and studied Electronics and Communication Engineering. Follow Sunny on Twitter: https://twitter.com/sunshinelu24

Episode Title: The Startup Life-How To B The Change Featuring Christopher Marquis(Award-Winning Professor at Cornell University) In this episode, we talk to Christopher Marquis(Award-Winning Professor at Cornell University)as we discuss his new book, advice on doing business in China, and how one student's question changed everything.  Purchase his book here Chris Marquis is the Samuel C. Johnson Professor in Sustainable Global Enterprise and Professor of Management at the Cornell University Johnson College of Business. Prior to joining Cornell, he worked for 10 years at Harvard Business School and has held visiting positions at Harvard Kennedy School, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Peking University, Fudan University, and Shanghai Jiaotong University. Marquis received a PhD in sociology and business administration from the University of Michigan. Marquis' current teaching and research is broadly focused on the two areas of social innovation and change and doing business in China. Under these themes he has examined entrepreneurship in China, the triple-bottom line and building sustainable businesses globally, and business competition in emerging markets. These research projects build on Marquis' earlier research on how business can have a positive impact on society and in particular how historical and geographical processes have shaped firms' and entrepreneurs' social and environmental strategies and activities. His latest book, Better Business: How the B Corp Movement Is Remaking Capitalism, focuses on the potential for stakeholder governance models to reform capitalism. Marquis's research has won a number of national and international awards, including the 2006 William H. Newman Award for best dissertation across the entire the Academy of Management, the 2006 Louis R. Pondy award for best dissertation in organizational theory from the Academy of Management, the 2003 James D. Thompson Award for best graduate student paper from the American Sociological Association, and the 2005 State Farm Doctoral Dissertation Award. He was a finalist for the 2010 and 2013 Aspen Institute Faculty Pioneer Award, a runner-up in the Academy of Management's Best Published Paper in Organization and Management Theory in 2009, and a finalist in the 2004 INFORMS/Organization Science Dissertation Proposal Competition. In 2018 he was given the International Educator Award, from China's State Administration of Foreign Expert Affairs. Marquis has published in Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Administrative Science Quarterly, American Sociological Review, Harvard Business Review, Organization Science, Stanford Social Innovation Review, and Strategic Management Journal, as well as a number of edited collections. From 2014-2020 he was an Associate Editor at Administrative Science Quarterly and he has served as an elected member of the Executive Committee of the Organization and Management Theory Division of the Academy of Management and of the International Association of Chinese Management Research (IACMR). Before his academic career, Marquis worked for six years in the financial services industry, most recently as vice president and technology manager for a business unit of J.P. Morgan Chase. Written by: Dominic Lawson Avani Garde Executive Producers: Dominic Lawson and Kenda Lawson Music Credits: **Show Theme**  Behind Closed Doors - Otis McDonald  **Break Theme** Cielo - Huma-Huma  Build a new website:  www.funkymedia.agency/register 

In this episode, we talk to Christopher Marquis(Award-Winning Professor at Cornell University)as we discuss his new book, advice on doing business in China, and how one student's question changed everything.  Purchase his book here Chris Marquis is the Samuel C. Johnson Professor in Sustainable Global Enterprise and Professor of Management at the Cornell University Johnson College of Business. Prior to joining Cornell, he worked for 10 years at Harvard Business School and has held visiting positions at Harvard Kennedy School, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Peking University, Fudan University, and Shanghai Jiaotong University. Marquis received a PhD in sociology and business administration from the University of Michigan. Marquis' current teaching and research is broadly focused on the two areas of social innovation and change and doing business in China. Under these themes he has examined entrepreneurship in China, the triple-bottom line and building sustainable businesses globally, and business competition in emerging markets. These research projects build on Marquis' earlier research on how business can have a positive impact on society and in particular how historical and geographical processes have shaped firms' and entrepreneurs' social and environmental strategies and activities. His latest book, Better Business: How the B Corp Movement Is Remaking Capitalism, focuses on the potential for stakeholder governance models to reform capitalism. Marquis's research has won a number of national and international awards, including the 2006 William H. Newman Award for best dissertation across the entire the Academy of Management, the 2006 Louis R. Pondy award for best dissertation in organizational theory from the Academy of Management, the 2003 James D. Thompson Award for best graduate student paper from the American Sociological Association, and the 2005 State Farm Doctoral Dissertation Award. He was a finalist for the 2010 and 2013 Aspen Institute Faculty Pioneer Award, a runner-up in the Academy of Management's Best Published Paper in Organization and Management Theory in 2009, and a finalist in the 2004 INFORMS/Organization Science Dissertation Proposal Competition. In 2018 he was given the International Educator Award, from China's State Administration of Foreign Expert Affairs. Marquis has published in Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Administrative Science Quarterly, American Sociological Review, Harvard Business Review, Organization Science, Stanford Social Innovation Review, and Strategic Management Journal, as well as a number of edited collections. From 2014-2020 he was an Associate Editor at Administrative Science Quarterly and he has served as an elected member of the Executive Committee of the Organization and Management Theory Division of the Academy of Management and of the International Association of Chinese Management Research (IACMR). Before his academic career, Marquis worked for six years in the financial services industry, most recently as vice president and technology manager for a business unit of J.P. Morgan Chase. Visit our website TheStartupLifePodcast.com Follow The Startup Life Podcast Facebook Page Want gear from The Startup Life? Check out our gear! Check out other great podcasts from The Binge Podcast Network. Written by: Dominic Lawson Avani Garde Executive Producers: Dominic Lawson and Kenda Lawson Music Credits: **Show Theme**  Behind Closed Doors - Otis McDonald  **Break Theme** Cielo - Huma-Huma 

Christopher Marquis is the Samuel C. Johnson Professor in Global Sustainable Enterprise and Professor of Management at Cornell University. His current teaching and research focus on the two areas of social innovation and change and doing business in China. Prior to joining Cornell, Chris worked for 10 years at Harvard Business School and has held visiting positions at Harvard’s Kennedy School, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Peking University, Fudan University, and Shanghai Jiaotong University. He received a PhD in sociology and business administration from the University of Michigan.In this episode, Stew and Chris discuss his new book, Better Business: How the B Corp Movement Is Remaking Capitalism. Chris reviews the meaning and intent of a B Corp, how this differs from corporate social responsibility initiatives, and why the essential features of B Corps are good for all businesses and their people. They get into why and how the U.S. differs from other industrialized nations in resisting stakeholder (as opposed to shareholder) models. Chris reviews common forms of resistance to taking on social issues -- including the environment, racial and economic justice -- and how to overcome these obstacles to positive change. They discuss generational trends in corporate social responsibility and how the pandemic, the resultant economic crisis, and increased awareness of systemic racism may reshape corporate America.Here then is an invitation, a challenge, for you, once you’ve listened to the conversation. What might you be able to try, in your work environment, that is consistent with the B Corp movement’s principles, that you believe would increase its value as a business? Write to Stew to let him know, at friedman@wharton.upenn.edu, or connect with him on LinkedIn. While you’re at it, share your thoughts with him on this episode and your ideas for people you’d like to hear on future shows. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week's podcast was recorded at the Caixin "Talking China's Economy: 2019 Forecasts and Strategies" conference in Chengdu in April. Kaiser spoke with Professor Hé Fān 何帆 of the Antai College of Economics and Management at Shanghai Jiaotong University, and Michael Anti, CEO of Caixin Globus, which tracks Chinese global investment. They chat about how "globalization," which once meant "Americanization" to many Chinese, has taken on a much broader meaning as SAFE concerns over capital flight have reeled in the "gray rhinos" after an investment spree, and as a stricter CFIUS regime has made U.S. investments more difficult. What to listen for on this week’s Sinica Podcast: 7:04: Professor He Fan explains the nature of the bilateral investment relationship between the United States and China in the 21st century: “Recently, the number [of Chinese investment in the United States] in 2017 is above six billion US dollars and accounts for four percent of China’s outbound foreign direct investment. And I haven’t seen — even when talking about [China’s investment in] other parts of the world, the Belt and Road, other countries — but I haven’t seen a dramatic decline of China’s investment in the United States. And if you look at the numbers, I think we tend to overestimate the importance of bilateral investment.” 14:13: How much scrutiny is being placed on Chinese investment in the United States, and what does the outbound investment landscape from China look like at the current moment? Michael: “Actually Chinese companies have two challenges to put the investment out: first, is the government ... But, in terms of the many Chinese internet companies — they have US dollar funds. Because they have US dollars in Hong Kong. Not all in Silicon Valley, not necessarily in Beijing. So that kind of money isn’t really controlled by the Chinese government. Then, they meet the second challenge. The American government, [or] CFIUS. CFIUS is now blocking, I would say 90 percent of Chinese tech investment in the United States.” 19:10: Are immigration and Chinese investment linked? Michael sees a link, and points out investment in southern Europe and Japan as examples - however Professor He Fan pushes back: “I think we can find this link between immigration and investment, but then, it would be very difficult to use this as a proxy to predict where Chinese money will go, because Chinese people are everywhere. I’ve traveled to more than fifty countries and there is only one country where I cannot find many Chinese people. It’s Cuba. Because it’s a planned economy and Chinese people are not allowed to do business there.” He Fan continues, “People are talking about decoupling of China and the United States. For me, it’s very difficult to imagine the decoupling of the two largest economies in the world … to be frank, I think people in Washington D.C. and Beijing tend to overestimate their influence. And people in Chengdu are much better.” 28:13: Who is doing the overseas investment in areas outside of the United States, state-owned enterprises or privately owned enterprises? Professor He Fan introduces the Wenzhou index: “In other foreign markets, in Africa and Southeast Asia for example, my understanding is private companies discovered those new markets first and then [were] followed by some of the state-owned enterprises. So, private companies, like businessmen in Wenzhou and Yiwu, they always move faster than state-owned enterprises.” 42:14: He Fan give a prognosis for China’s relationship with its regional neighbors, Japan and Korea. Besides a notable warming of relations — could the downturn in U.S.-China relations rekindle the bilateral relationship in these countries? He Fan doesn’t think so, whose compass points southward: “I think this improvement of the bilateral relationship between China and Japan is a strategy …  there’s no place where China can close the gap, if there’s really decoupling between China and the United States. But, maybe a new market in China will increase their investment and trade in the near future — my guess is Southeast Asia.” Recommendations: Michael: Two TV shows: Billions and The Good Fight. He Fan: His new book, 变量 biàn liàng by Hé Fān 何帆, and a French book, Le piège américain (“The American Trap” in English). Kaiser: A Woman First: First Woman by Selina Meyer and Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood by Trevor Noah.

Dr Shane Geha is a truly fascinating character. He has built multiple businesses, is a highly disciplined academic and is still constantly studying, learning and stretching himself to the limits of his potential and beyond. As he approaches 50, he is as enthusiastic about property as he was in his 20’s. He treats his staff like family, he still runs in the elite section of the City to Surf and managed to negotiate his way out of a terrorist kidnapping whilst in the Middle East. He fits a lot into his day and he shares life and business philosophies that are inspirational.Shane is the founding Managing Director of EG Property & Urban Planning and is one of the leading re-zoning experts in New South Wales. His focus is working closely with clients on property uplift strategy and its implementation.Shane completed his PhD in Planning on “Quantifying the Rezoning Effect” at the University of NSW, 2013. Shane now lectures part-time at the University of Sydney in a number of engineering courses as Adjunct Assistant Professor. Shane was also recently appointed Adjunct Professor at the School of Civil Engineering at UNSW. He has also guest lectured at Harvard School of Design, Shanghai Jiaotong University and the School of Architecture and Engineering at both Notre Dame University and ALBA, University of Balamand in Lebanon.Dr Shane Geha co-founded EG in 1999 together with Dr Michael Easson (AM). EG was the first private company in NSW to work exclusively in the rezoning sphere, rezoning land for external clients.By the year 2000, Shane and his brother, Adam, with Michael Easson, founded EG Funds Management. Since then, EG Group has earned a high reputation in both property and land rezoning and funds management. EG property has rezoned $19 billion of land in the past 20 years and has constructed $280 million in projects to date. EG Funds currently manages over $3 billion of funds in Australia and the USA.Shane is also a Founder and Partner of Ridley & Co, a leader in Building Information Modelling (BIM), with over 270 employees.Shane is a frequent contributing writer to Australia Financial Review, “Your Investment Property” and the Sydney Morning Herald, and he has published and sold over 100, 000 educational books worldwide. 

In episode 25 of TechBuzz China, co-hosts Ying-Ying Lu and Rui Ma talk about Alibaba’s recent moves to firm up its strategy around local services, putting pressure on Meituan-Dianping to defend itself. This war of “O2O,” or online-to-offline, is shaping up to be intense, with the latest battle round seeing the merger between food delivery rival ele.me (which Alibaba acquired for $9.5 billion in April) and Alibaba’s new retail subsidiary, Koubei.  This episode of TechBuzz is the first in a series of deep dives into the local services space in China. Rui and Ying-Ying begin with some background on Meituan’s “unstoppable roll” on its way to becoming the “Amazon of services” for China: the gargantuan super app is currently dominating several verticals including food delivery, movie ticket sales, bike sharing, and travel. However, its dominance is being challenged by Alibaba, and in the food delivery space this shows up in the form of the ecommerce giant’s support for and acquisition of ele.me. Rui and Ying-Ying tell the origin story of ele.me. The startup’s founder, former CEO, and now-Chairman Zhang Xuhao was a first year graduate student at Shanghai Jiaotong University when he started the company with five friends in 2008, back when entrepreneurship was considered rebellious and unconventional. The venture was self-funded for a few years before landing angel investment from GSR’s Allen Zhu, one of the best investors in China. Though ele.me grew quickly, it was still fairly small when it got its first big break — Dianping’s investment of $80 million, which allowed the startup to embark on an accelerated expansion plan. It went from 300 employees at the end of 2013 to 5000 at the end of 2014. By August 2015, with traffic from shareholder Dianping and additional investment from Tencent, ele.me was feeling like it was on top of the world. The story, however, doesn’t end there. Listen to the newest episode of TechBuzz China and join our co-hosts in exploring the rise of ele.me, its sale to Alibaba, and what’s happened since. What is in store for the company — and more importantly, for the future of local services in China? What is new retail, and why is it bleeding into local services? How do they reinforce each other, or do they? Why is there always a war on the Chinese internet, and who is going to win this one? As always, you can find these stories and more at pandaily.com. Let us know what you think of the show by leaving us an iTunes review, liking our Facebook page, and tweeting at us at @techbuzzchina to win some swag! Finally, a huge shoutout to our new listeners over at dealstreetasia.com.

Welcome to the 46th installment of the Caixin-Sinica Business Brief, a weekly podcast that brings you the most important business stories of the week from China's top source for business and financial news. Produced by Kaiser Kuo of our Sinica Podcast, it features a business news roundup, plus conversations with Caixin reporters and editors. This week: We note that a North Korean nuclear test site near the border with China has collapsed, leaving it vulnerable to radiation leaks. We analyze President Donald Trump's new remarks on U.S.-China relationships, which indicated that the two countries would have a “very good chance at making a deal” on trade. We learn that leading Chinese travel platform Ctrip has invested in a U.S. supersonic airplane startup, Boom Technology, as high-speed technology soars back toward commercial use. We explore new data about China's smartphone market, which performed worse than any other major global region in the first quarter of this year, with demand down by 6 percent as the market suffered from saturation. We discuss the news that Manbang Group, operator of a market-leading mobile app that matches truck drivers with shippers, closed a funding round of $2 billion from a group of investors led by China Reform Fund and Japan's SoftBank. We hear that several competitors in the Chinese ride-share market are revving their engines, as Didi Chuxing currently has 90 percent of the market. We find that the global #MeToo movement claimed a small victory in China after a prominent academic at the prestigious Shanghai Jiaotong University was removed from his post over alleged sexual harassment. In addition, we talk with Doug Young, managing editor of Caixin Global, about sexism in China's high-tech world, and Chinese telecom giant Huawei, which is now under investigation by the U.S. Department of Justice over alleged violations of U.S. sanctions related to Iran. We'd love to hear your feedback on this product. Please send any comments and suggestions to sinica@supchina.com.

Only 35 years ago a predominantly peasant economy, China has become the largest trading nation in the world. It is also remarkable that China has relinquished its status as environmental pariah to become a critic of the US president’s rejection of the Paris climate accords. Only recently a communist outsider, China is now a capitalist powerbroker, most notably in dealing with the challenge of North Korea. Can there be a peaceful adjustment of the West’s global domination to accommodate the rise of the new Eastern superpower? Is the demise of the West exaggerated? Is there a serious risk of military conflict? JONATHAN FENBYauthor, Will China Dominate the 21st Century? managing partner, TS Lombard ALAN HUDSONvisiting professor, Shanghai Jiaotong University; director, programmes in leadership and public policy, University of Oxford DR CHUN-YI LEEassistant professor, The School of Politics and International Relations; director, Taiwan Studies Programme DR LINDA YUEHeconomist, broadcaster and author; adjunct professor of economics, London Business School

Xinhua Zhou is currently Senior Vice President of Operations at Terminus Technologies, a smart city and internet of things startup backed by China Everbright Group and IDG Capital, amongst others. Prior to Terminus, Xinhua was a General Partner at Everbright-Focus Media New Industry Fund, where she closed investments in portfolio companies such as Yixia Technology which produced popular livestream apps Yizhibo and Miaopai, fintech 米么金服 mi-me.com focused on female consumers, and 寿全斋 Shou Quan Zhai a 250 year old Chinese health products brand. Before entering venture capital industry, Xinhua was at Dianping, China’s top groupbuying company and closed strategic investments in companies such as food delivery platform ele.me and O2O karaoke startup一起唱 Yi Qi Chang. Xinhua completed her MBA at The Wharton Business School and Bachelor degree in Engineering from Shanghai Jiaotong University   Key points covered: Journey to from a startup to a VC and then to a startup What do LPs look for when GPs approach them to raise a fund? What type of due diligence does the LP do on the GP? Investment logic behind some of Xinhua’s portfolio companies: Why did she invest in a ~250 year old brand? Transitioning from fund to startup: What are the learnings? Tips for foreign startups looking to enter China market Items mentioned: Xinhua’s previous startup: Dianping (now Meituan Dianping) Case study investment: Shou Quan Zhai Twitter: (at)hutongv, (at)haymarkethq Hutong (Ad)Ventures is a podcast on how to succeed in China featuring top venture capital investors, founders and operators with real China experiences. Hutong (Ad)Ventures is part of Haymarket HQ. Hosted by Jemma Xu.

完整文稿看周六微信第三条，你懂得This is NEWS Plus Special English. I'm Mark Griffiths in Beijing. Here is the news.A total of 9.4 million Chinese high school students have sat for the Gaokao, the annual national college entrance exam which fell on June the 7th to 9th this year as always.The test is often called a battle to determine a student's future, as the results can decide whether a student goes to college, back to school for another year, or starts a career.Because the stakes are high, cheating is a recurring problem.During the first day, two hours after the test began, media reports alleged a surrogate exam-taker in Nanchang, the capital of Jiangxi Province in east China, have been detected.The provincial education department immediately investigated and apprehended the suspect in a high school exam room with the police in attendance, less than half an hour before the first test ended.The suspect admitted to being a stand in, and further investigations are under way.The Ministry of Education, meanwhile, says it has asked the public security ministry to oversee the investigation. Cheating in the Gaokao can amount to a punishable crime in serious cases.Though the scams will never disappear, the Gaokao has become a fairer game since last year with new rules being enforced. It was the biggest change since the exam was reintroduced in 1977.This is NEWS Plus Special English.As the rainy season arrives, local authorities in China have been urged to give more attention to protection and safety efforts.A government statement has called on local governments to carry out thorough safety inspections on reservoirs, building sites, roads, railways and tourist attractions. The joint notice has been issued by the State Flood Control and Drought Relief Headquarters and the State Administration of Work Safety.Priority should be given to formulating emergency plans, rescue and relief work, and the preparation of relief supplies.China's National Meteorological Center has issued a yellow alert for storms in southern China. China has a four-tier color-coded weather warning system, with red representing the most severe weather, followed by orange, yellow and blue. This is NEWS Plus Special English.The National Health and Family Planning Commission has issued a manual on Middle East Respiratory Syndrome, or MERS, for health departments and hospitals.It contains a detailed introduction to the history of the disease, its symptoms, laboratory testing, preventative measures, treatment and care.Control measures at hospitals will be heightened and patients complaining of fever will be screened.The organization has promised to keep the public well informed and give timely warnings.China reported its first MERS patient a week ago in Guangdong Province, southern China. It is a traveler from South Korea.MERS is a respiratory illness caused by a coronavirus, similar to Sever Acute Respiratory Syndrome, or SARS. The first human case emerged in Saudi Arabia in 2012. It has a fatality rate of 40 percent.There is no effective treatment for MERS and medical care just focuses on alleviating the symptoms.According to the manual, person-to-person transmission of MERS is limited.You're listening to NEWS Plus Special English. I'm Mark Griffiths in Beijing. You can access the program by logging onto NEWSPlusRadio.cn. You can also find us on our Apple Podcast. If you have any comments or suggestions, please let us know by e-mailing us at mansuyingyu@cri.com.cn. That's mansuyingyu@cri.com.cn. Now the news continues.Chinese scientists and the European Space Agency have decided that their joint space satellite program will focus on an X-ray imaging satellite to study the Earth's magnetosphere.The project, known as SMILE, was selected from 13 proposals and is due to launch in 2021. It will study the effects of the Sun on the Earth's environment. The study aims at creating images of the interactions between solar winds and the Earth's magnetosphere with innovative X-ray and ultraviolet technology.Previously, the European Space Agency contributed to China's Double Star, similar satellite mission launched in 2003 to focus on the impact of the Sun on the Earth's environment.SMILE will be the first comprehensive collaboration between China and the European Space Agency with joint efforts in definition, implementation and data utilization. The next step will be a project feasibility study.This is NEWS Plus Special English.China and the United Nations Food and Agricultural Organization have signed a 50-million-US-dollar agreement to support developing countries in building sustainable food systems in the fight against extreme hunger and poverty.The effort is a new contribution to the FAO-China South-South Cooperation Trust Fund. It will support the exchanges of Chinese agricultural experts with countries in the southern globe, particularly in low-income food-deficient areas, over a period of five years.Chinese officials said that since 1990, China has successfully lifted 138 million of its people out of chronic hunger.China is the leading agricultural producer among the developing countries. It is ready to enhance cooperation with the FAO. The effort will not only benefit agricultural development, but also the poor and hungry people of the world.You're listening to NEWS Plus Special English. I'm Mark Griffiths in Beijing. A student in Shanghai Jiaotong University has made a cockroach move using the human mind.Li Guang-ye, a postgraduate student of the university, implanted live cockroaches with microelectrodes that stimulate certain nerves in the insects' antennae, allowing him to control the insect using a remote control.To achieve this, the controller needs to wear a portable wireless brain wave collecting device to ensure the controller's directional intention is recognized by a computer.Then the computer transfers the directional intention into controlling signal and sends it to the electronic backpack receiver on the back of the cockroach; then according to the commanding signal of the controller, the electronic backpack sends specific pulse to the nerve of the cockroach's antennae which has been implanted with a microelectrode.By virtue of the Bluetooth communication technology, the controller can form a wireless communication link between the computer and the electronic backpack through intrusive electrical nerve stimulation techniques. This enables the control of the cockroach by human beings.The invention won a second prize in a nationwide students' video contest earlier this year and will be displayed in one of the top-level technology conferences in China later in 2015.This is NEWS Plus Special English.Two grocery stores with unmanned checkouts have completed a one-day trial in Beijing and the eastern city of Hangzhou, with the intention of testing the integrity of customers.A QR code and guidance were placed in a cashier-free outlet belonging to the Vanguard supermarket chain in downtown Hangzhou.Customers assume the job of the cashier by scanning bar codes themselves. They have been able to pay via mobile phone or put cash in an honesty box.The grocery store sold products worth 16,700 yuan, roughly 2,700 U.S. dollars, but only received payment to the amount of 13,700 yuan from customers. In the Beijing outlet under AMPM, a convenience store chain, staff said some customers stole products or paid less. A Vanguard executive said cashier-free supermarkets reduce queuing time and are developing fast abroad. With an improved credit system, the Vanguard executive expects more cashier-free grocery stores to open in China.There are cashier-free stores in other parts of China including the northeastern province of Jilin and eastern province of Shandong.The trial was jointly run by the two store chains and Sesame Credit, a credit scoring service introduced by a financial affiliate of e-commerce giant Alibaba. This is NEWS Plus Special English.Twenty-six Chinese students studying in the United States have received an annual Chinese government award.The award-winning ceremony has been held at the Chinese Consulate General in Houston. Consul General Li Qiang-min handed out the National Scholarship for Outstanding Self-Financed Chinese Students Abroad.The recipients came from more than 10 colleges in the southern United States, and their majors covered physics, chemistry, biology, medicine and electronic engineering.The scholarship award was set up in 2003 by the China Scholarship Council to honor overseas Chinese students with outstanding academic accomplishments. It aims to encourage research excellence and to recognize the achievements among Chinese students abroad. The award consists a 6,000 U.S. dollar prize and a certificate.More than 4,000 overseas Chinese students have received the award. A total of 500 students received the award this year.You're listening to NEWS Plus Special English. I'm Mark Griffiths in Beijing. You can access the program by logging onto NEWSPlusRadio.cn. You can also find us on our Apple Podcast. If you have any comments or suggestions, please let us know by e-mailing us at mansuyingyu@cri.com.cn. That's mansuyingyu@cri.com.cn. Now the news continues.The State Forestry Administration of China has published guidelines on protecting the country's desertified land.The guideline advised more than 1.2 million square kilometers of desertified land in China be closed off as a protection zone so as to control drifting sand and improve the environment.The guidelines will be effective from July this year to the end of 2020. The guidelines ban activities including cutting down trees, cultivating land, animal grazing, and misuse of water in the protected zones. Construction of railways and highways is forbidden. No immigrants should be settled in the zones.According to the guidelines, the protected areas should be important locations that have an impact on regional and national ecology and have suffered from frequent human activity.Desertified land, which is land that has become barren due to constant water shortages and excessive exploitation, makes up more than half of the total desert area in China.China had a desert area of around 2.6 million square kilometers, accounting for 27 percent of its total land mass.This is NEWS Plus Special English.China will launch a five-month campaign to regulate the online market and protect the rights and interests of online consumers and operators.The campaign will be effective from July to November, and will target fake and inferior commodities that have been widely complained about by consumers and dealers, as well as dishonest shopping websites.The State Administration for Industry and Commerce said the items being checked include electronic products, car accessories, clothing, electrical materials and other important commodities.The market regulator will strictly supervise the rules and standards of E-commerce platforms, make sure sales promotion rules are transparent to consumers, and market rules are well implemented.A real-name registration system will be established for online stores in an effort to combat illegal trade activity and fake shopping sites.China's online sales volume surged 50 percent year on year to reach almost 2.8 trillion yuan, roughly 450 billion U.S. dollars, last year, accounting for almost 10 percent of the country's total retail sales.This is NEWS Plus Special English.

详细内容请关注周六微信，或登录以下网址： http://english.cri.cn/7146/2014/12/22/2582s857654.htm This is NEWS Plus Special English. I'm Mark Griffiths in Beijing. Here is the news. A man who was executed 18 years ago for raping and murdering a woman in a public toilet in Hohhot in China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, has been found not guilty by the local Higher People's Court. The higher court has apologized for the mistake made in sentencing Hugjiltu in 1996, and gave 30,000 yuan, roughly 4,500 US dollars, in compensation to his family, and pledged further compensation. Hugjiltu, who was 18 at the time, was sentenced to death and executed in 1996. However, an alleged serial rapist and killer, Zhao Zhihong, confessed to the murder after he was arrested in 2005. Miao Li, the lawyer representing Hugjiltu's family, said that she had been sure that the case was wrongly judged and that by reviewing files, she found no evidence supporting the claim that Hugjiltu raped and murdered the woman. The lawyer said that the process will begin to ask for State compensation once his client is announced innocent. She added that the family will also initiate the process of finding out the identity of the policemen, prosecutors and judges who were involved in the case. This is NEWS Plus Special English. China's tourism authorities have urged travel agencies to monitor tour groups and explore the use of personal credit reports to identify possible offenders in advance. The move comes after four Chinese passengers pouring hot water on a Thai flight attendant and triggered public outrage online. The National Tourism Administration released a statement asking all provincial tourism authorities and travel agencies to help regulate tourist behavior. The statement says that the incident disrupted the flight schedule by forcing the plane to return to Bangkok; and the people involved were dealt with according to the law. The administration also asked the provincial tourism authorities to record the incident in the personal credit reports of the four passengers. Tourism experts say that stopping such behavior requires the help of travel agencies as well as tourists themselves. They urged tour guides to alert tourists about their behavior and the consequences of breaking local laws and rules during the trips to other countries. Teachers at Shanghai Jiaotong University have called for an urgent introduction of personal credit reporting systems in the tourism industry; and the reports will to be shared with certain departments, including visa application centers. This is NEWS Plus Special English. The growth of ride-hailing companies such as Uber and Lyft has so far not been hindered by limits from government regulators and campaigns by taxi cab competitors. A bigger threat to the new industry's impressive start could come from customers though, if enough people stop using the services over fears that drivers aren't safe. Not safe as in the drivers might get into an accident, but safe as in they won't attack passengers. Uber operates in more than 250 cities in 50 countries, and was recently valued at 40 billion US dollars based on 1.2 billion dollars that investors poured into the company in its latest funding round. Lyft, meanwhile, operates in 70 markets in the United States, up from 30 at the start of the year. So far, controversies have not seemed to impact the popularity of ride-hailing apps. They boast several advantages over taxis, including no-cash payments and an app that shows how far away a car is and whether the driver received positive reviews from prior riders. Uber ranks in 39th place in the Apple iTunes store among the most popular free apps, ahead of Gmail and the music streaming service Pandora. Lyft, which is much smaller, is not in the top 100. But just last week, California prosecutors sued both, saying they misrepresent and exaggerate the rigor of their background checks. Police in India questioned an Uber executive about the company's background checks after a driver was accused of raping a passenger. And Uber removed a driver in Chicago after a customer reported that she was sexually assaulted during a ride in the city last month. The company said it is cooperating with police in what it called "an appalling and unacceptable incident". You are listening to NEWS Plus Special English. I'm Mark Griffiths in Beijing. Swiss researchers have suspended the testing of one of the leading Ebola vaccine candidates after some volunteers reported unexpected side effects. The researchers at the Hospital of Geneva University say the trial has been suspended "as a precautionary measure". The study involving 59 people began in November. Four cases of mild joint pain in the hands and feet were reported in people who received the shot 10 to 15 days earlier. Officials have stopped giving the vaccine to obtain more data and liaise with others who are testing the vaccine in the United States, Canada, Germany and Gabon. The vaccine was developed by the Canadian government and is licensed to two U.S. companies. The trial is scheduled to resume next month in Geneva.