Here is a list of today’s CSR related articles that came across our desks over the last 24 hours. Please let us know if there is an area you would like for us to add Environment World Bank Loan to Improve Urban Environmental Management in Liaoning oday the World Bank’s Board of Executive Directors approved a loan of $173 million to the People’s Republic of China in support of the Second Liaoning Medium Cities Infrastructure Project.  The project is co-financed by the Global Environment Facility (GEF) with a grant of $5 million. Read More Polluters will be forced to pay more in China China plans to significantly increase charges on the release of pollutants and effluents, said Bi Jingquan, vice-minister of the National Development and Reform Commission. Read More Algae outbreak ‘not serious Local authorities have confirmed that Dianchi Lake, the largest freshwater lake in Southwest China’s Yunnan Province, is suffering from a blue-green algae boom. Read More Clean environment, clean bill of health The World Health Organization’s (WHO) country profiles of environmental impacts on health represent a first step towards helping policymakers plan interventions, says this Lancet editorial. Read More Health & Safety Smoking ban in taxis just a Band-Aid for stubbing out tobacco industry IT’S a good idea for the government to try to ban smoking in taxis, but the ban may not really bite. Read More Industrial raw materials found in food A nationwide inspection of the food-production industry has uncovered the use of a wide range of illegal ingredients in the processing of foodstuffs, the top quality watchdog said Tuesday. Read More 23,000 fake food cases cracked in 6 months China’s quality watchdog cracked 23,000 cases of fake and low-quality food from December 2006 to May 2007, involving 200 million yuan (26 million U.S. dollars). Read More Health Care and China’s Grassroots In a previous post I argued that the future of China’s public sphere and non-profit infrastructure is uncertain at best. But the momentum surrounding health care reform — and one must add, the foreign NGOs that are coming to China as a result — should both help, and be helped, by this vital yet struggling grassroots development. Read More Community Investment AIDS boy is refused operation HOSPITALS have repeatedly refused to operate on a five-year-old AIDS patient who has a blocked esophagus because they fear exposure to the disease, the Nanfang Metropolis News reported yesterday. Read More Drug maker sponsors health plan AMERICAN pharmaceutical company Bristol-Myers Squibb yesterday teamed up with the Shanghai Charity Foundation to offer education on hepatitis B to migrant workers, and medical professionals in the city. Read More Sustainable Development China’s farmers need a second liberation China is in a rapid transition toward industrialization and integration into the world economy. However, this development has had a high price, particularly on the environment, and has put heavy pressure on local energy resources and ecosystems. Read more China’s Leader Stresses Spreading Wealth China must urgently tackle corruption and spread wealth more fairly among its 1.3 billion people, but political reform will be gradual and only under continued one-party communist rule, President Hu Jintao said. Read More Governance