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Question 1. Food and Globalization: Coffee/ Chocolate Group 1 Hyperlink

Wong Yuk Ping/ Hung Tak Chun/ Cheung Ka Wai   

• How does globalization affect their industries or the nature of their business?
• Who are the stakeholders?
• Which Multi-national Corporations are involved?
• Have the farmers receive a fair return for their labor?
• What has been done/should be done to address global justice here?

Question 2. Tax Avoidance of Multinational Corporations   Group 2 Hyperlink

Chan Siu Fung Rico/ Lai Wai Ching

• Explain the link between corporate social responsibility and corporate tax avoidance.
• Explain the idea of  tax avoidance, especially the issues of base erosion and profit shifting (the basic tools of tax avoidance)
• Do the MNCs have a responsibility to pay tax to their “home countries” (or countries of origin) and to countries where they make profits?

Question 8. Water Scarcity & Plastic Bottles    Group 3 Hyperlink

Li Guanrui/ Wang Yuxiang/ Zhang Yichi

• How are plastic bottles produced?
• What is the history of human consumption of plastic products?
• What is the problem of plastic pollution?
• What is the problem of water scarcity?
• Should we forbidden the use of bottled water altogether in developed society?

Q3./4. Selling Tobaccos/Opioids Epidemic Group 4 Hyperlink

Lee Kin Fung/ Quan Shen Yuan

• Knowing that their products are addictive and can cause cancers, should the respective companies continue to sell their products?
•  What morally suspicious actions have the tobacco/drug companies done in the past to the customers (who are vulnerable to the products)?
• Under what conditions would it be morally acceptable for the respective companies to sell their products to the public, or would it be morally acceptable at all?
• Would they be allowed to sell their products if they have done “sufficient promotions” about the harmful consequences of their products?