Welcome to our Chinese Responsible Investment Overseas Newsletter. This newsletter aims to serve as a platform for updates, insights, and tools on key topics relating to social and environmental impacts of Chinese overseas investments and business, and as a resource to promote peer learning and informed decision-making. To provide more up-to-date information for practitioners and researchers in this field, we slightly upgrade the contents with lead story and practical resources in the past quarter, and guest blogs that present cutting edge issues and in-depth analysis of how to promote sustainable development and responsible business through China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) from leading experts & advanced organizations.

You can view our previous issues on Gender-responsive Approach, Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) Disclosure, Responsible Land Use, Management and Investment, Conflict-affected and High-Risks Areas, Myanmar, Responsible Mining, the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB), and Free, Prior & Informed Consent (FPIC). To sign up for future newsletters, please click here. To suggest materials for future issues and our website, please contact Lowell Chow - chow@business-humanrights.org.

We thank Alvin Camba, Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Sociology at Johns Hopkins University, for contributing a guest blog for this issue. Alvin shares the findings based on his field research on the online gambling companies in the Philippines invested and operated by Chinese and how does the sector adversely impact on Chinese migrant workers’ rights and the Filipino’s daily life in direct and indirect ways.