From Xinhua,via China Daily: A large number of China’s colleges and universities are unaware of their intellectual property rights, according to a recent survey. The survey, conducted by the Zhejiang Polytechnic University at the request of the State Intellectual Property Office, shows that 75 percent of China’s colleges and universities have never or have applied […]
Read MoreFrom The Guardian: Ever since 9/11, the US and China have been rubbing along nicely. The US needed China’s support in the war against terror and China is anxious to create the best conditions for its economic growth. But how long will this latest honeymoon last? A string of recent announcements coming out of Washington […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhua: China is expected in 10 years to have at least 200 million people who suffer from obesity, a disease that carries the danger of early death, Chinese medical experts have warned. China has now over 90 million obese people, whose weight exceeds the standard 20 percent, according to the Information Times… Among the […]
Read MoreFrom China Daily: Chinese lawyers are playing a key role building up the nation’s economy. Ensuring construction projects are legal is a major problem in national economic policy-making, said Gao Zongze, president of the All-China Lawyers’ Association. “Legal consultations decide if the project can go ahead or not,” Gao said. Statistics shows that more than […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters, via sandiego.com Saturday’s showdown at Shengyou, 220 km (140 miles) southwest of Beijing in Hebei province, was first reported in the Beijing News, rare coverage for one of a growing number of disputes over land rights in China, where the government places an overriding emphasis on the need for social stability. Protests take […]
Read MoreFrom The World Peace Herald: China’s ambitions as a rising power have been marked by economic muscle, but how is the country spending its new wealth? Is a derelict Ukrainian warship being refitted as a carrier, casino, or destined for the scrapheap? Zhang Guangqin, the top official overseeing the country’s burgeoning shipbuilding industry, denied Thursday […]
Read MoreFrom Business Week: …Even as China’s leadership breathes a sigh of relief, the outsize profits of recent years appear to be history, given all the new plants being built. Gluts are emerging in steel, cement, autos, chips, and petrochemicals, dimming the outlook for earnings. In the first four months of 2004, profits at China’s industrial […]
Read MoreFrom the Los Angeles Times (free registration required): The current debate raises questions about whether multinational companies have a duty to help promote political freedoms in a world where their power and global standing rival many governments’. Previous debates over corporate conduct have focused on environmental issues, fair wages and working conditions. If international companies […]
Read MoreFrom The Guardian Unlimited: News that Microsoft has joined forces with the Chinese government to ban words such as “democracy” and “human rights” from MSN Spaces, the weblog service it launched in the country last month, set “the blogosphere a-buzzin’”, said Tim Bray at his Ongoing blog (TBray.org). Bray was not alone in condemning the […]
Read MoreFrom the Independent Online: Public security officials in Beijing are recruiting and training nearly 4 000 Internet police to monitor activities at Internet cafes and related companies, state media said on Thursday. Eight hundred “Internet security officers” will be sent to the city’s Internet cafes and 3 000 to other Internet-related businesses, the Beijing News […]
Read MoreCDT was sent the following account of the Shalan flash flood (Note: The author, Xiaorong, is not CDT Guest Blogger Li Xiaorong). The essay is based on an article written by a Chinese journalist, which was posted on a BBS but...
Read MoreFrom ABCNews.com: It’s one thing to use your near-monopoly in a market to play hardball with competitors, it’s quite another to be a lickspittle to tyranny to enhance your bottom line. Some background: As reported by The Associated Press, bloggers that use the MSN Spaces section of Microsoft’s new Chinese Web portal and type in […]
Read MoreFrom UPI, via Top Tech News: Access to overseas Web sites from Beijing and other areas of north China often is painfully slow, particularly during times of peak demand, such as after business office hours and on weekends. The experience is not unlike highways in the Chinese capital during rush hour: Digital traffic moves at […]
Read MoreFrom Beijing Today, via the Chinese Law Prof Blog: Lawyer Pang Biao brought a lawsuit to Daxing District Court of the People’s Republic of China against HuBei Expressway Co. ltd on May 9, because it took him nearly two hours to get through the whole JingJinTang expressway which is operated by the company, instead of […]
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