There’s a Chinese joke about lawyers that goes like this: “You know you broke the law, right?” “Which law?” “Why, teaching the law is illegal!” [Editor’s note: It reads better in the original Chinese] The joke became reality...
Earlier this year, efforts to unionize China’s seven million food-delivery drivers were battered by the arrests of Chen Guojiang, or “Mengzhu” to his thousands of social media followers, and a host of other prominent labor...
China’s market regulator has announced new rules to identify and stop monopolistic practices in the internet industry, in the latest move by Chinese officials to rein in the country’s burgeoning tech sector. In a...
The U.S. Congressional-Executive Commission on China issued its annual report on human rights and...
Human Rights Watch’s China Director Sophie Richardson writes at The Globe and Mail that with...
Despite the Chinese state’s vigorous control of Internet use within its borders, its large...
The latest spate of anti-monopoly investigations in China, which has resulted in multiple office...
Chinese regulators have launched a new series of anti-trust investigations into foreign automakers...
Reuters’ Jim Finkle notes China’s exclusion of American Symantec and Russian Kaspersky...
Following the confirmation this week of a Chinese antitrust probe into Microsoft, Xinhua assured...
Microsoft appears to have attracted the attention of Chinese business regulators, soon after the...
Despite Wal-Mart’s turbulent run in China, the Arkansas based company has now received approval for its previous bid to raise its stake in an online supermarket. From Reuters: Wal-Mart had said in February it would raise its...
From Reuters: Draft anti-monopoly rules issued by China propose restrictions on price agreements that could apply to deals reached by foreign companies beyond the country’s borders, potentially in mining and other sectors....
Coca Cola’s two-billion dollar takeover bid for Chinese juice company Huiyuan has been rejected. From the Wall Street Journal: The decision by the Commerce Ministry Wednesday to block what would have been the largest-ever...
From Reuters: Frustrated by an unsteady trickle of overpriced fuel, China’s independent oil firms hope to sue the country’s two energy giants Sinopec and PetroChina under a new anti-monopoly law, Chinese media...
From Xinhua: The No. 1 Intermediate People’s Court of Beijing on Thursday rejected an anti-monopoly case considered the first of its kind in China, the Beijing Times reported. In a first-instance trial ruling, the court...
From the Wall Street Journal: Coca-Cola Co.’s $2.4 billion deal to acquire China Huiyuan Juice Group Ltd. offers the first major test of China’s new antitrust law — one that comes amid public concern over the...
From Economic Observer Online: A wave of consolidation among Chinese state-owned firms (SOEs) have collided with the tide of antirust exercises as China’s first ever Anti-monopoly Law came into effect on Aug 1. The Law has...
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