From The Chinese Law Prof Blog: Beijing University’s Chinalawinfo site recently posted an interesting article on the various ways polluting enterprises obtain protection from enforcement of environmental law……. This article points up a feature of the Chinese political-legal system that, interestingly, has persisted virtually unchanged for decades despite the seismic changes occurring elsewhere in the […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhua, via China Daily: China’s top legislature adopted a change to the law on the country’s court system on Tuesday requiring all death sentences to be approved by the Supreme People’s Court. The amendment to the country’s organic law on the people’s court will come into effect on January 1, 2007. It is believed […]
Read MoreFrom The China Daily: China is planning to stage an annual car-free day across the country, an official with the Ministry of Construction said on Thursday. Lan Rong, director of the ministry’s department of urban construction, revealed the plan at the inaugural meeting of the China Urban Public Transport Association’s intelligent traffic committee in Guiyang, […]
Read MoreOn May 17, Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao announced a six point plan intended to make it easier for the average urban family to find housing. It called for: (1) more maller-sized units, (2) macro-control using tax, credit, and land policies, (3) fewer forced relocations, (4) a more orderly market, (5) more rental and low-income housing, […]
Read MoreZhang Liangying (º†ÈùìÈ¢ñ) won the third place of 2005 ‘Super Girl‘ TV contest. She is good at singing English songs. Huayi Brothers Music has signed her up and released her new album recently, titled “The One”. Click to listen to the two songs. The first song is a MTV of “Loving you.” The second is […]
Read MoreHuang Guangyu, Chairman of Gome Electronics and the richest man in China in 2005, is allegedly under investigation for an illegal loan for as much as 1.3 billion yuan. Taiwan newspaper China Times said, citing Caijing Magazine. The Bureau of Public Security has launched an investigation on Huang Guangyu and his brother, Huang Junqin. Former […]
Read MoreAsia Media reviews a new book, “Understanding China and India: Security Implications for the United States and the World” by Rollie Lal: One of the pitfalls in the making of United States foreign policy is that often too little weight is accorded to the concerns of other countries. It is important to understand why countries […]
Read MoreDai Qing, an early Three Gorges Dam opponent during the Tiananmen era, was speaking out loud against the proposed damming project. Thus, she got 10 months behind the bars. She thinks the dam was more of a political issue rather than a means to solve the power shortage. And she doubts the Chinese government can […]
Read MoreForeign firms are joining the ranks of nasty polluters like notoriously irresponsible Chinese chemical plants, etc., from the Wall Street Journal: Thirty-four foreign-owned or joint-venture companies – including Panasonic Battery Co., PepsiCo Inc. and Foster Group Ltd. – were reported to have caused water pollution by regional and national government agencies, according to an investigation […]
Read MoreFrom Rebecca MacKinnon;s RConversation blog, she is in Hangzhou attending The second annual Chinese blogger conference: If one extrapolates China’s future from this group of individuals, you see a peace-loving,...
Read MoreFrom Business Week: Some 11 million PCs in over 110,000 Internet caf√©s. If you’re Xu (Ian) Yang and your job is to sell Chinese on using computers with Intel chips, those numbers will surely grab your attention. In late 2003, Yang, the Beijing co-general manager of Asia-Pacific for Intel Corp. (INTC), was in the northeastern […]
Read MoreFrom The New York Times, via International Herald Tribune: China cut off oil exports to North Korea in September, amid heightened tensions over that country’s nuclear and missile programs, Chinese trade statistics show. The unusual move – the figures show China sold no crude oil at all to its neighbor in September – reduced cumulative […]
Read MoreIn the Washington Post, Orville Schell reviews Mao’s Last Revolution by Roderick MacFarquhar and Michael Schoenhals: It has been enthralling to read Roderick MacFarquhar and Michael Schoenhals’s exhaustively researched new book on China’s Cultural Revolution — a sensation akin to returning to a Chinese painting in which a mist-shrouded landscape has miraculously cleared to reveal […]
Read MoreAccess into the cities for the poor to be controlled, starting in Shanghai (maybe more?): Shanghai will set up a special mechanism to monitor the increasing influx of migrant workers, who now account for nearly a third of the city’s population, officials said over the weekend. The new oversight system – details of which were […]
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