From the Washington Post (link) Wu Renbao saw the future of his little village long ago, and it worked. It worked so well that Huaxi has become the richest village in China. As a result, Huaxi has been cited by Communist Party leaders as an example of what they mean when they vow to build […]
Read MoreFrom People’s Daily Online (link) To promote meticulosity in meting out capital punishment, top judge Xiao Yang said Saturday that Chinese courts will start from this year to open court sessions when hearing death sentence trials in second instance, after taking steps to retrieve the power of death penalty review from provincial courts. “As of […]
Read MoreFrom the New York Times (link) VOLKSWAGEN and other carmakers used to prosper by sending outdated factory equipment to China to produce older models no longer salable in the West. But competition has become so fierce here that Honda is about to introduce its latest version of the Civic only several months after it went […]
Read MoreFrom the Financial Times (link) Serious shortages of judges in China’s poorer western regions have left some local courts almost unmanned and others relying on unqualified staff to handle cases, according to one of the country’s top provincial judicial officials. Zhao Shijie, president of the Higher People’s Court of south-western Yunnan province, said the judicial […]
Read MoreFrom BBC (link) The Supreme Court has named a Judicial Court of Intellectual Property to address cases throughout the country, said Sun Huapu, a court spokesman. China’s burgeoning fake goods market is causing tension with the US, which has said it forfeits up to $3.8bn in lost sales annually. China has also launched a website […]
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