Paul Denlinger, CEO, China Business Strategy and tech blogger behind China Vortex responds to immediate reaction by those in the US social media community to China's decision to order the shut down of entertainment websites in China for 3 days of mourning for the Sichuan earthquake victims.

Paul's article Let's See How Many Ways We Can Get This Wrong offers a perspective that helps give insight that is being overlooked and prompted Christine Lu to gather a bit more insight from him.

About Shaun Rein

An impressive list of media references, Business Week, Forbes, the International Herald Tribune, underlines Mr. Rein's unchallenged position as opinion leader on the Chinese consumer market research. He talks and writes about the mistakes foreign companies make, the Chinese middle class, the Chinese youth culture. Mr. Rein knows how to make his case both when he faces a small group of executives or when he has to address a hall of two thousand.

In a very short time he has developed his China research company into a leading consultancy on China.

Before founding CMR, he was the Chief of Research for venture capital firm Inter-Asia Venture Management. He also was the Managing Director, Country Head China for e-learning software company WebCT where he also ran the company's Taiwan and South Korean operations. He also served as the Assistant Director of the Centre for East Asian Research at McGill University.

He has been widely published, written about and quoted in newspapers worldwide including BusinessWeek, the Harvard Business Review, Forbes, Dow Jones' MarketWatch, Yahoo Finance, TheStreet.com, Investor's Business Daily, the Wall Street Journal, and Barron's.

Shaun won an award from Harvard University for "Excellence in Teaching" and is a frequent guest lecturer at universities worldwide, including the University of Pennsylvania, Fudan University and CEIBS (China-Europe International Business School). He speaks at major business conferences such as Lnoppen's China Luxury Insights, Marcus Evans' China Retail, IBC-Asia's Private Equity, GIC's China Consumer Market Strategy, Profit and Loss Magazine's FOREX Asia, and Hong Kong Cyberport's VC Technology Conference.

Over his decade in China, he has assisted hundreds of Fortune 500 and SMEs determine how best to take advantage of the growing opportunities in China.

Shaun currently serves on JP Morgan's "Hands-on China" expert group as well as ad: Tech China's Board of Advisors. He is Senior Advisor to VC firm China Metropolitan Ventures and is on the Board of Advisors of Pacem Production's Building China Modern series of PBS documentaries. He previously served as the Secretary General of the Asia Society's China Board, Form Director for St. Paul's School, and sat on the Advisory Committee for Shareholder Responsibility to the Harvard Corporation.

He earned his graduate degree from Harvard University focused on China's economy and received a BA Honours from McGill University.

Thanks to Shanghaiist for posting the below information. Hope those of you reading can also help spread the word while we gather more information on other NGOs on the ground in China setting up relief efforts for earthquake victims in Sichuan province.

For those who are looking to contribute to current aid efforts underway, you can now donate money to the Red Cross Society of China which has formed a disaster relief working group to be dispatched to the earthquake-stricken Wenchuan County in Sichuan.

They have also published an emergency relief hotline, along with bank account information to receive donations to assist their cause:

Account name: Red Cross Society of China
开户单位：中国红十字会总会

For those who want to donate in RMB: you can send money to the RMB account at the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China branch below:
人民币开户行: 中国工商银行 北京分行东四南支行
人民币账号: 0200001009014413252

For those who want to donate in foreign currency, you can send money to the foreign currency account at the CITIC Bank branch below:
外币开户行：中信银行酒仙桥支行
外币账号: 7112111482600000209

Hotline: (8610) 65139999
Online donations: Red Cross Society of China website: www.redcross.org.cn
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About Renee Hartmann

Renee Hartmann, CFA. Renee is a co-founder of eno, and eno’s COO. Renee came to China in 2000 to start up Ogilvy and Mather’s Mainland China investor relations group, where she counseled Chinese companies listing on US and Hong Kong stock markets. In the United States, Renee worked as an investment associate at Putnam Investments following consumer sectors, as an analyst at private equity and venture capital firms, and as a Manager in Alexander Ogilvy’s public relations department where she counseled start-ups on late stage financing and the IPO process. Renee holds an MBA from Duke University.

About eno:

eno is a fast-growing lifestyle fashion company. Headquartered in shanghai, eno designs, manufactures and retails a branded line of streetwear in collaboration with artists, musicians and students from china and around the world. eno currently operates nine stores in China - two in Beijing, five in Shanghai and two in Kunming. Visit www.eno.cn for more information on eno.

From stunning Olympic architecture to the life of the middle class to environmental concerns in a village in Guizhou, May's issue of National Geographic Magazine features 10 stories on China and beautiful photography showing us a side of the country that's been overshadowed in current events headlines recently.

Chris Johns, Editor-in-Chief of National Geographic talks to Christine about May's special feature on China.

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The China Business Network would like to thank Marilyn Terrell of National Geographic and Alltop.com for giving us the opportunity to interview Chris Johns. Editing and voiceover by giannii.