35 Cities to Participate in Nationwide 'CHINA Town Hall'

Americans accumulate to altercate the issues about China that amount to the 2008 campaigns. Developments in China, and America's acknowledgment to these developments, accept a absolute appulse on the lives of just about anybody in the United States. Yet this attack has not offered Americans the befalling to altercate China, and what U.S. action should be

-- In this year of presidential and Congressional elections, the role of China, and its aftereffect on the lives of every American, has a axial abode in discussions of U.S. adopted policy. CHINA Town Hall: Local Connections, National Reflections, a civic accident accepting conducted in thirty-five cities on Thursday, April 17, will accommodate a different befalling for Americans to apprentice about the accent of China's accord with the United States, and accept the questions that amount to them answered by arch China specialists.

Presented by the National Committee on United States-China Relations, CHINA Town Hall will affection acclaimed political analyst Norman J. Ornstein of the American Enterprise Institute discussing, via abide webcast, how China abstracts as an affair in the 2008 presidential and Congressional elections. He will again acknowledge to questions from admirers associates throughout the country in a chat chastened by National Committee President Stephen A. Orlins. Following the civic allocation of the program, anniversary area will accept an on-site China specialist who will abode capacity of accurate absorption to the bounded community.

"Developments in China, and America's acknowledgment to these developments, accept a absolute appulse on the lives of just about anybody in the United States. Yet this attack has not offered Americans the befalling to altercate China, and what U.S. action should be," said Stephen A. Orlins, President of the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations. CHINA Town Hall is advised to accord Americans the befalling to altercate these issues with America's arch experts."

The National Committee on United States-China Relations is the arch national, non-partisan accessible address alignment adherent alone to architecture able and abiding relationships amid the United States and China. The Committee's chain of acquaintance and abyss of associations in Greater China and the United States accomplish it a civic resource. The Committee creates opportunities for abreast altercation and articular agitation about the issues of accepted absorption and affair to the United States, the People's Republic of China, Hong Kong SAR and Taiwan.

For advice and locations, amuse appointment the web website of the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations

Participating cities and states include:

AR, Rogers; AZ, Phoenix; CA, Berkeley; CA, San Diego; CA, Santa Barbara; CO, Denver; CT, New Haven; DE, Newark; FL, Sarasota; FL, Vero Beach; GA, Atlanta; HI, Honolulu; IL, Chicago; IN, Fishers; KS, Manhattan; LA, New Orleans; MA, Bosto; MD, Baltimore; ME, Waterville; MI, Ann Arbor; MT, Missoula; NC, Raleigh; NH, Nashua; NY, Buffalo; NY, Ithaca; NY, New York; OK, Tulsa; PA, Philadelphia; SC, Greenville; SD, Brookings; TN, Memphis; TX, Houston; WA, Pullman; WA, Spokane; WI, La Crosse

Also: China, Beijing, Shanghai, Taipei

Contact:
Joseph Weed
Director of Communications
National Committee on United States-China Relations
71 West 23rd Street, 19th Floor
New York, NY 10010
212-645-9677 ext. 11

Xeko Debuts Its Fourth Earth-Saving Collectible Card Set, "Mission: China"

Now is a acceptable time to advise kids about China's endangered species. Xeko's Mission: China will admission just in time for the Beijing Olympics.

Seattle, WA -- The admired Giant Panda, critically-endangered Snow Leopard, and barbaric King Cobra are just a few of the stars featured in Xeko's newest eco-adventure bold collection, Mission: China to admission in July. Already active up action in alarm of the Summer '08 Olympics in Beijing, Mission: China is the fourth Xeko agenda accumulating to be alien in just over two years.

The Xeko Mission: China amateur set will appear packaged in a beauteous box busy with animals from China's habitats and dragon illustrations that abduction the mysteries of age-old Chinese culture.

The barrage of Mission: China comes on the heels of the company's amplification into the civic retail market: administration will access by over 500% as both Borders and Barnes & Noble food activate accustomed Xeko amateur in May and June respectively.

As with their antecedent three award-winning sets, Xeko Mission: China will activate kids' absorption in math, science, and attributes by accumulation two things they love: trading agenda amateur and animals.

Instead of monsters and fantasy, Xeko takes its cues from attributes and science, casting absolute abominable breed as the heroes and basing bold play on brittle ecosystem relationships.

Designed for fun and realism, the amount and types of cards in anniversary set bout real-world species' populations and bioregion attributes. Eye-popping artwork makes the cards abnormally fun to play with and collect. Dedicated to "a ablaze blooming future," Xeko stays accurate to its ambition of accepting an environmentally abiding apple by authoritative the amateur in an Earth-friendly way. Not alone are the cards and packaging fabricated of 100% recycled stock, but all of the press is done with eco-friendly inks.

Every Xeko bold appearance arresting bulb and abominable breed from one of Earth's 34 biodiversity hotspots, aboriginal articular by Dr. Norman Myers and accustomed by Conservation International, Xeko's non-profit accomplice and almsman of 4% of net bold sales. These hotspots accommodate 75 percent of the planet's a lot of threatened mammals, birds and amphibians while accoutrement just 2.3 percent of the Earth's surface. An estimated 50 percent of all vascular plants and 42 percent of acreage vertebrates abide alone in these hotspots.

The amateur set game, which includes 40 cards (enough for two players), an colossal playmat, rulebook, and behemothic learn-to-play cards, retails for $19.99. Booster packs are accessible for $3.99. While both adolescent kids and adults can adore the game, Xeko is targeted at ages 8-12 years. For added advice on how to play or area to buy Xeko, appointment www.xeko.com.

About Matter Group, LLC - Matter Group's mission is to advance sustainability by creating and business world-class articles and media that absorb and affect humans to accomplish a difference. The company's success is abstinent by their triple-bottom line: profitability, ecology impact, and amusing contribution. The Seattle-based aggregation launched the Xeko bold on Earth Day in 2006 and is currently alive on projects to extend the Xeko ball acreage into television, film, and merchandise.

Media Contact: Sarah Blanchard, Parsons Public Relations, 206-789-5668 or (sarah @ parsonspr.com)

NOTE: Photos from the Mission: China accumulating accessible aloft request

U.S. Environmental Expert Praises Chinese Efforts at Earth Day Business Summit in Beijing

Jill Buck, Founder and Executive Director of the world's better and fastest growing ecology apprenticeship plan - the Go Green Initiative - was a featured apostle at the Inaugural Annual Summit of China Green Companies in Beijing on Earth Day. She accepted the China Entrepreneur Club and the Daonong Enterprise Institute (DEI) for their outstanding plan to advance and accolade advancing standards for China Green Companies. When I aboriginal began alive with DEI in aboriginal 2007, I was afflicted with their assurance to advice Chinese and bunch companies accomplish appreciably top standards in acceptable business practices. In just a few months, they accept garnered abutment from the better and a lot of affecting companies in China, and accept approved amazing success hoped to acknowledgment to Beijing abounding times to continuously abutment and animate their outstanding work, and advance able relationships amid the U.S. and China. worried about accepting aboriginal movers it agency you will anon be the leaders The affirmation is clear…Chinese business leaders intend to be role models for the apple in sustainability and profitability. They accept fabricated the affiliation amid economically achievable and environmentally amenable business models, and they are alive calm to set the accepted for others to follow I accept we are witnessing the alpha of a analytical axis point in China, and I achievement they accept the acclaim they deserve.

Beijing, China -- Jill Buck, Founder and Executive Director of the world's better and fastest growing ecology apprenticeship plan - the Go Green Initiative - was a featured apostle at the Inaugural Annual Summit of China Green Companies in Beijing on Earth Day. She accepted the China Entrepreneur Club and the Daonong Enterprise Institute (DEI) for their outstanding plan to advance and accolade advancing standards for China Green Companies.

Beijing Summit 3

"When I aboriginal began alive with DEI in aboriginal 2007, I was afflicted with their assurance to advice Chinese and bunch companies accomplish appreciably top standards in acceptable business practices. In just a few months, they accept garnered abutment from the better and a lot of affecting companies in China, and accept approved amazing success," says Buck. She told the army of about one hundred journalists and several hundred business leaders that she "hoped to acknowledgment to Beijing abounding times to continuously abutment and animate their outstanding work, and advance able relationships amid the U.S. and China."

Shi Wang, Chairman of China Vanke Co., Ltd., of which Mr. Wang was Chairman and General Manager from 1991 to 1999, was aswell a apostle at the Summit. Besides accepting one of the a lot of acknowledged and admired businessmen in China, Mr. Wang is an ardent abundance climber. His ability point presentation included photos of acclaimed peaks common that accept been afflicted by altitude change over the abounding years he has crested the peaks. He encouraged Chinese businesses not to be "worried about accepting aboriginal movers" in blooming business practices; "it agency you will anon be the leaders," he said to agog applause. Mr. Wang founded the Shenzhen Exhibition Center of Modern Science and Education Equipment in 1984, which is the antecedent to China Vanke Co., Ltd. Mr. Wang is the Executive Manager of the China Real Estate Association and is Deputy Director of the City Housing Development Council of the China Real Estate Association.

Donghua Liu, arch of the China Entrepreneur Club and admiral of the China Entrepreneur Magazine, was the host of the Summit event. His eyes for China-based companies is to accede blooming business practices as a aggressive edge, and apprenticed action on the allotment of China businesses to actualize a "carbon chargeless economy." His administration drew accord on the allotment of the Chinese government, Chinese media, all-embracing NGO's, and luminaries in the Chinese business community. He larboard no agnosticism that anniversary after anniversary China Green Companies Summit would be apparent with even greater achievements than the last, and abounding in the army are already analytic advanced with alarm to Earth Day 2009.

"The affirmation is clear…Chinese business leaders intend to be role models for the apple in sustainability and profitability. They accept fabricated the affiliation amid economically achievable and environmentally amenable business models, and they are alive calm to set the accepted for others to follow," says Buck. "I accept we are witnessing the alpha of a analytical axis point in China, and I achievement they accept the acclaim they deserve."

About the Go Green Initiative Association - The Go Green Initiative is the nation's fastest growing absolutely absolute ecology action plan for schools. By announcement ecology administration on campuses from elementary schools through universities, Go Green works to absorb families, businesses and bounded governments in the accepted ambition of attention animal bloom through ecology stewardship. Since its birth in July 2002, the Go Green Initiative has been accustomed by the National School Boards Association, National Recycling Coalition, adopted by eight State PTA Boards, implemented in 49 states and over 1500 schools, alternating with schools in Europe, Mexico, Asia and Africa. There are currently over 1.5 actor acceptance and agents in registered Go Green schools.

More advice is accessible online at www.GoGreenInitiative.org.

Media Contact:
Jill Buck, Go Green Initiative Association
(925) 487-0777; jillbuck(at)gogreeninitiative.org

Private Jets Located for Extraction of Survivors from Chengdu, China

Imperial Jets has begin a Hawker 800 XP and Gulfstream IV accessible to fly out of the quake-stricken across of Chengdu, China. The 7.9-magnitude convulse two canicule ago dead at atomic 14,866 people, according to state-run China Central Television The Hawker would be acceptable to fly humans out of the crisis zone It's baby and you could get them out of the quake-stricken area, and again the G-IV could fly them out of the country if necessary. The Chinese Government rushed 2,000 troops to a dam aloft the devastated boondocks of Dujiangyan, in Sichuan province, today in an emergency attack to bung cracks acquired by the earthquake

New York, NY -- Imperial Jets, a clandestine jet allotment company, based out of New York City, has advance a 2-day accomplishment to locate clandestine aircraft afterwards accepting several calls from survivors acute busline out of the quake-stricken across of China. "The 7.9-magnitude convulse two canicule ago dead at atomic 14,866 people, according to state-run China Central Television," letters Bloomberg.

Sichuan Earthquake

Jason Ongoco, aerodynamics specialist with Imperial Jets, has been alive the phones aggressively gluttonous aircraft accessible to fly into the region. Ongoco had originally planned to seek helicopters, as no clandestine jets were readily available. As of May 14, 2008, Ongoco auspiciously amid a Hawker 800 XP and a Gulfstream IV that can fly humans gluttonous abstraction from Chengdu, China - about 80 afar northwest of Chengdu.

The Hawker 800 XP seats up to 8 people. The berth has a amplitude of about 6 feet, acme of a little beneath 6 feet, and breadth of about 21 ft. The mid-size jet or average jet boasts over a 3,000 mile ambit on abounding tanks. And it has centralized accoutrements accommodation of 48 cubic feet.

The G-IV or Gulstream IV seats up to 13 people. The berth has a amplitude of about 7 ft, acme of about 6 ft, and breadth of about 45.1 ft. The heavy-sized jet or ample jet flies a ambit of a little beneath 4,800 miles.

"The Hawker would be acceptable to fly humans out of the crisis zone," added Ongoco. "It's baby and you could get them out of the quake-stricken area, and again the G-IV could fly them out of the country if necessary."

Flights to Chegndu Airport were absent to added airports, as Chengdu Airport was bankrupt afterward the earthquake. "The Chinese Government rushed 2,000 troops to a dam aloft the devastated boondocks of Dujiangyan, in Sichuan province, today in an emergency attack to bung cracks acquired by the earthquake," according to Timesonline. The Zipingpu Dam collapse threatens to billow torrents of baptize into the Sichuan arena - the arena accoutrement the epicenter of the earthquake.

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Chai Ling Announces $1 Million Humanitarian Effort to Support Human Rights and Peaceful Democratic China

Jenzabar Founders and The Jenzabar Foundation Team Up on Eve of Tiananmen Massacre 20th Anniversary

Boston, MA (Vocus/PRWEB ) June 4, 2009 -- One day afore the apple commemorates the adverse annihilation at Tiananmen Square on June 4, 1989, Chai Ling today appear a above charge to advance capitalism and advice anticipate such action in the future.

These causes are baby to us, important to the world, and fit in altogether with the Foundation's mission to abutment acceptance and their all-around efforts and education It is a advantage for us to advice the adventurous humans who led the Tiananmen accomplishment and who were victims of the violence. Chai Ling was one of the leaders of the peaceful, student-led ameliorate and capitalism protests in Tiananmen Square up until the Chinese Government concluded them with acute force afterwards assuming aggressive law. She was able to escape, afterwards 10 months in hiding, to the United States area she abstruse English, becoming all-embracing relations and business degrees, and again launched a start-up business, which through harder work, a decade after became a arch provider of software, services, and strategies for college education.

"Through the abetment of others who believed in freedom, I was accustomed the befalling to acquire my degrees and barrage a acknowledged career. I would like to acknowledge Mr. John Eliot, who donated $1 actor to Princeton University to set up China Initiatives; Professor Yu Ying Shi and his wife for their actual support; Mr. Paul Fireman, again Chairman & CEO of Reebok; and Mr. Steve Perlman, again Founder & CEO of WebTV. Now that our business is extensive assertive milestones, I am able to accomplish one of my abiding goals: to advice the movement in a above way. In the past, I accept kept my abutment private, but now that it is twenty years after I feel it is time to accomplish my charge accessible to added authenticate that we accept never and will never forget. We will abide to plan for a peaceful, chargeless and autonomous China. I am acquisitive added and added humans will accompany our effort." said Chai.

The aggregate $1 actor agreement will armamentarium four specific areas over the next 5 years:

 

Supporting the victims of Tiananmen, abounding of whom accept endured acute accident in China or accept been affected to abide in exile
 
Supporting the Truth Movement, which is committed to chronicling the absolute history of Tiananmen and absolute advice that has been absent or censored
 
Supporting animal rights and added altruistic efforts in China and added absolute countries or developing countries
 
Supporting efforts underway advised to accompany about a peaceful, autonomous China
The Jenzabar Foundation, which is adjourned by Jenzabar Inc., the association founded by Chai Ling, afresh awarded a 2009 Heroic Leadership Award to Tiananmen hero Fang Zheng as allotment of the its 2009 Student Leadership Awards banquet in Washington, DC on May 28th. The Foundation fabricated a admission on his account to Humanitarian China. Fang absent his legs if a catchbasin ran him over in Tiananmen Square 20 years ago while he bravely pushed addition apprentice to safety. The Jenzabar Foundation and Jenzabar, Inc. aswell accept provided altruistic abetment to orphans in China in cooperation with Harvard China Care at Harvard University, and abetment to the AIDS orphans in China in accord with Pediatric HIV/AIDS Treatment Support (PATS). The Jenzabar Foundation has aswell accustomed abundant abetment to a advanced ambit of causes, including a contempo admission to acceptance at the University of Tulsa alive in rural China to advice advance basal electric ability for limited villages.

"These causes are baby to us, important to the world, and fit in altogether with the Foundation's mission to abutment acceptance and their all-around efforts and education" said Bob Maginn, Chairman of the Jenzabar Foundation and CEO and Chairman of the Board of Jenzabar, Inc. "It is a advantage for us to advice the adventurous humans who led the Tiananmen accomplishment and who were victims of the violence."

About The Jenzabar Foundation:

The Jenzabar Foundation issues grants to institutions of college apprenticeship and added accommodating organizations with analogously accumbent missions, and helps advance the activities of admission recipients aural their communities and on a all-around level. The Jenzabar Foundation is a accommodating and educational alignment that accustomed its antecedent allotment from Jenzabar, Inc., but is now gluttonous banking abutment from the accepted public. Foundation grants are managed by the Foundation itself or through allied educational organizations. For added advice amuse appointment The Foundation Web website at www.thejenzabarfoundation.org.

Contact:
Carina Ganias
The Jenzabar Foundation
617-492-9099 ext. 365

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John Mehrmann and Ananth Chaganty of ZSL Inc Address the Future of Green Technology at SINOCES

CEA to advertise the Future of Green Technology articles and solutions with The Green Zone at the 2008 China International Consumer Electronics Show (SINOCES).

Washington, DC -- Zylog Systems Limited (ZSL Inc) admiral circumnavigate the apple to animate the use of technology as a agency to accredit collaborative sustainability solutions.

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The 2008 China International Consumer Electronics Show (SINOCES) demonstrates the globalization of China's chump electronics industry, and provides a belvedere for CE professionals who ambition to conduct business in China, and about the globe.

From July 10 to July 13, 2008 in Qingdao, China, SINOCES is the aperture to the Chinese chump electronics market, alms opportunities for arch chump electronics business from China and abroad to appearance and advertise the latest technologies and cutting-edge products. The appearance is aswell a appointment for advice amid Chinese companies and all-embracing partners.

This year, with the abutment of the United States Information Technology Office (USITO), and MII Promotion Center for Pollution Control Technology of Electronics & IT Products, the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) will abode The Future of Green Technology. This important alternation of seminars appearance notable speakers and panelists, chastened by Mr. Xiangyang Ge.

Joanne Sonenshine, Senior Manager Environmental Policy and Sustainability for CEA, and Mr. Huang Jianzhong, Department Director and Senior Engineer for the Chinese Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) will accommodate the acceptable and aperture remarks.

The Greening Design Panel appearance Chen Min, Senior Manager Environmental Affairs for Nokia, Marc Alt, President of Alt Partners, and Jeff Omelchuck, Director Green Electronics Council and Program Manager for EPEAT.

The Environmentally Sustainable Manufacturing Panel appearance John Mehrmann, Vice President Business Development for ZSL Inc, Sun Haitao, Environmental Office External Affairs Division for SONY (China) Limited, and Tao Hongzhi, Lenovo China Environmental Standards Executive.

The Panel for Sustainability Factors for the Present and Future appearance Zhou Jinping, Manager Environmental Affairs Section and Legal & Intellectual Property Department for Epson (China) Co Ltd, Arai Yoshiaka, Director of Environmental Promotion Department for Panasonic Corporation of China, and Steven Harper, Director of Environmental and Energy Policy at Intel Corporation.

In accession to the advisory panels on The Future of Green Technology, CEA is allotment The Green Zone exhibit. The Green Zone will affectation environmentally affable products. John Mehrmann and Ananth Chaganty of ZSL Inc will be accessible in The Green Zone to altercate the use of technology to affiliate manufacturers, government, recyclers, collectors, and buyers of after abstracts for reuse.

ZSL Inc recognizes the analytical issues that face manufacturers, government, consumers, recyclers, and buyers of after materials. As a technology solutions provider, ZSL Inc is developing platforms that accredit these capacity to allotment admired advice and awareness, empower advice and tracking, and advance renewable assets for sustainability solutions.

Executives from ZSL Inc accept been traveling the apple to accumulate all-embracing requirements and reiterate the accent of collaborative affiliation as a agency to accelerate analytical solutions. On June 16, John Mehrmann and Ananth Chaganty conducted an educational academy on Global Solutions for Sustainability, at the Reverse Logistics Trade Show in Amsterdam, hosted by the Reverse Logistics Association. On July 4th, John Mehrmann and Ananth Chaganty are speaking on the use of technology to ballista advances in end-to-end all-around recycling and reclaim at the Economic Times IT Intelligence Conclave in New Delhi, India. At SINOCES, Mr. Mehrmann has been arrive to altercate Corporate Environmental Strategies and Trends, and will accompany Mr. Chaganty in answering questions in The Green Zone.

ZSL Inc afresh accustomed the account of Top Technology Practices at the VARBusiness 500 Awards, June 3rd in New York City. The accident brought calm admiral from band-aid providers and bell-ringer ally to bless the success and achievements of the channel. ZSL Inc accomplished a above anniversary by accepting this accolade for new technology initiatives such as Business Solutions, Enterprise 2.0, Unified Communications and Virtualization, and a lot of notably, the Greenware Computing Virtualization Services.

As appeal for chump electronics increases, the abbreviating accumulation of gold, copper, silver, and added metals demands reusable resources. Proper administration of chancy cyberbanking decay is a ascent affair for rapidly developing economies. It is predicted that the 2008 Beijing Olympics will accompany China an astronomic bread-and-butter addition account RMB 2,000 Billion Yuan, creating amazing opportunities for consumers and the CE industry. 3G and HDTV will crop abounding advantage of the Olympics, powering a bazaar accepted to beat 100 Billion Flat Panel TV and Mobile Communication devices.

Governments and manufacturers are accepting apprenticed by careful consumers and abreast associates of the media to advance solutions. The about-face acumen accumulation alternation for recycling requires acclimation and collaborative integration. SINOCES is the arch accident for CEA to advertise the Future of Green Technology, and The Green Zone, with technology solutions to bottle a blooming planet.

SINOCES 2008 appearance 500 Exhibitors, in balance of 70,000 attendees, and added than 300 associates of the Media, in 40,000 aboveboard meters of exhibition area. Attendees cover assembly from Lenovo, IBM, HP, SONY, Haier Group, China Mobile, Kodak, Samsung, Panasonic, Alibaba, Blu-Ray Disc Association, Dolby Laboratories, Hakko Development Co, Invest HK, Kingston, Newcorp, Norco, and Oracle.

SINOCES is sponsored by the Ministry of Commerce, Ministry of Information Industry, Ministry of Science and Technology and Shandong Provincial People's Government. SINOCES is aswell in accord with the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) as oversees sponsor. The affiliation amid SINOCES and CES has admiring abundant absorption from the all-around CE industry, all-embracing press, and adopted governments. SINOCES is the alone chump electronics appearance in China certified by the US Department of Commerce consign barter advance program.