From Shanghai Daily: Shanghai property tycoon Zhou Zhengyi was arrested on Sunday after prosecutors found evidence linking him to the pension fund scandal, Shanghai People’s Procuratorate said yesterday. Prosecutors discovered that Zhou was suspect of bribery and falsification of value-added tax invoices during their investigation into the city’s pension fund scandal, the Procuratorate said. Zhou […]
Read MoreFrom New America Media: China has just confirmed that it shot down one of its own satellites, but Chinese bloggers and U.S.-based Chinese media have been discussing the incident for days. Last Friday, www.people.com.cn, the online venue for China’s government newspaper People’s Daily, published a report titled “America’s Wild Speculation on China’s Anti-Satellite Missile.” By […]
Read MoreFrom Financial Times: China’s economy is estimated to have expanded 10.5 per cent in real terms in 2006, with nominal growth at 12.6 per cent, the country’s tax chief said on Wednesday. The figures, announced a day before the scheduled official release of 2006 GDP data, showed the economy slowed slightly from the blistering growth […]
Read MoreAn old lady cooking dumplings for her son, via www.fengniao.com
Read MoreFrom China Law Blog: Great article in today’s Wall Street Journal, entitled, “Why China Grows So Fast“. It is written by Michael Spence, a 2001 Nobel laureate in economics, a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, a professor emeritus of management in the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University, and chairman of the independent […]
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