{"id":5539,"date":"2011-03-16T13:08:36","date_gmt":"2011-03-16T12:08:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ethicalquote.com\/?p=5539"},"modified":"2011-03-16T13:13:37","modified_gmt":"2011-03-16T12:13:37","slug":"asian-tech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/2011\/03\/16\/asian-tech\/","title":{"rendered":"Asian tech companies chip in relief to Japan quake victims"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ethicalquote.com\/newTemplate\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/110316_japan.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-5543\" title=\"110316_japan\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ethicalquote.com\/newTemplate\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/110316_japan.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"130\" \/><\/a>Technology companies across Asia have found ways  to help people in Japan left devastated by the 9.0-magnitude earthquake  last Friday, the 7-meter tsunami it spawned, and displacement caused by  troubles at a nuclear power plant there. China&#8217;s Alibaba.com, for example, has thrown in its <a href=\"http:\/\/aliexpress.com\/activities\/japan_relief.html\" target=\"new\">e-commerce expertise<\/a> to let hundreds of millions of users buy tents, sleeping bags,  raincoats, flashlights and other gear for quake victims at cost. The  company will cover the cost of shipping the goods to Japan. Prices  for the products, likely sourced from low-cost factories in China,  range from $10.52 for a tent, to $7.69 for a sleeping bag and 31 cents  for a pair of work gloves. There is a minimum order for lower priced  goods, such as the gloves: 30 pairs for $9.30. Many such items  are needed for the massive number of people displaced by the temblor,  estimated at around 500,000. A total of 3,771 people are confirmed dead  after the disaster, with 7,843 still missing, according to the National Police Agency of Japan. The tsunami swept away entire towns, leaving hundreds of thousands  homeless, while an emergency at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power  Station caused officials to order people to evacuate a wide area around  the site. Electronics companies including Japanese giants such as  Fujitsu, Mitsubishi Electric, NEC, Panasonic and Sony, all pledged cash  donations, and some of them will distribute electronics that might be  helpful. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.computerworld.com\/s\/article\/9214638\/Asian_tech_companies_chip_in_relief_to_Japan_quake_victims\" target=\"_blank\">More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>News selected by Covalence | Country: Japan | Company: Alibaba.com, Fujitsu, Mitsubishi Electric, NEC, Panasonic, Sony, Advantest, Kyocera, Omron, NEC, Samsung Electronics, Baidu, Yahoo! | Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.computerworld.com\/s\/article\/9214638\/Asian_tech_companies_chip_in_relief_to_Japan_quake_victims\" target=\"_blank\">Computer World<br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Technology companies across Asia have found ways to help people in Japan left devastated by the 9.0-magnitude earthquake last Friday, the 7-meter tsunami it spawned, and displacement caused by troubles at a nuclear power plant there. China&#8217;s Alibaba.com, for example, has thrown in its e-commerce expertise to let hundreds of millions of users buy tents,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":665,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_post_series":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"post_series":[],"class_list":["post-5539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","entry","no-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/665"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5539\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5539"},{"taxonomy":"post_series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_series?post=5539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}