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Article

30 Aug 2006

Author:
Stephen Frost, in CSR Asia Weekly Vol. 2, Week 35

[PDF] [China: further information about record fine for illegal sewage discharge imposed on textile firm owned by Hong Kong-listed Fountain Set - in "China View - A roundup of stories making the Chinese press last week"] [see last paragraph on page

...a textile firm owned by Hong Kong-listed company [Fountain Set (Holdings) Limited]...has been ordered to pay 11.55 million yuan (US$1.4 million) for illicit discharge of excess waste water over the past two years...Fountain Set includes adidas, Tesco, JC Penney, J. Crew, Liz Claiborne, Next, Levi’s, Nautica [part of VF Corp], Eddie Bauer and others among its customers.