From ETToday: On the 29th of April, both the White House and the U.S. State Department declined to offer a direct evaluation of the so-called “five-point consensus” reached in the meeting between Hu Jintao and Lien Chan. However, both urged Beijing to make efforts to communicate directly with President Chen Shui-bian. Scholars based in the […]
Read MoreFrom Chinadaily: An unidentified man wielding knife hijacked a Mercedez-Benz in Hangzhou, east China’s Zhejiang Province Friday afternoon, taking a woman, the car driver, and her little son hostage. The gunman seized the luxury car in a blink after the woman picked up her son from the kindergarten, threatening her with the knife to drive. […]
Read MoreFrom bloomberg.com: Taiwan’s government, sidelined as China’s Communists court the island’s opposition Nationalists, criticized yesterday’s meeting in Beijing between the heads of both parties, even as a new poll shows the Taiwanese public is positive on the overtures. The Taiwan public is more enthusiastic about attempts at reconciliation, according to similar polls published today in […]
Read MoreFrom bloomberg.com: China will introduce jury trials next week for the first time aiming to bring impartiality and independence to the judicial system. About 27,000 jurors will report for duty May 1, helping decide criminal and civil cases as they sit on a three-member panel with judges. The jurors were picked by half of China’s […]
Read MoreFrom bloomberg.com: The U.S. said China has failed to live up to its pledge to crack down on counterfeiters, and laid out a series of improvements Chinese authorities must take to avoid a dispute over the issue at the World Trade Organization. In a report on protection of intellectual property rights globally, the U.S. Trade […]
Read MoreFrom ETToday.com: KMT Chairman Lien Chan, currently on a visit to China, arrived in Xi’an on Saturday, and paid a visit to the elementary school where he had studied during his childhood. Lien Chan was greeted warmly by the students there, and in return, Lien presented a red-envelope with RMB100,000 to his alma mater for […]
Read MoreFrom People’s daily online: Visiting Chinese Kuomintang (KMT) Party Chairman Lien Chan reiterated his unwillingness to see a prolonged stalemate in the cross-Straits relations after arriving at Xi’an, capital of northwest China’s Shaanxi Province, the third leg on his eight-day mainland tour, at around 11:30 a.m. Saturday. Lien said he hoped to learn more about […]
Read MoreFrom People’s daily online: The amended Securities Law is required for establishing a protection fund for stock investors, said a major official involved in drafting the revised law. The law is currently under the deliberation of Chinese top legislators. “This is one of the major measures to protect interests of stock investors, mainly small and […]
Read MoreFrom China Daily: China’s business hub has seen an 81 per cent increase in international business lawsuits in each of the last three years, according to Shanghai High People’s Court. “Most of them involved international purchasing, investing in Shanghai, maritime cargo transportation and ship collisions,” said Pan Furen, deputy president of Shanghai High People’s Court.”Companies […]
Read MoreFrom People’s daily online: The Supreme People’s Court has affirmed a total of 29 well-known trademarks since they began to affirm well-known trademarks in trial of disputes over trademark and domain name in 2001. The 29 well-known trademarks include “Sinochem,” “Rolex,” “Honghe,” “Safeguard,” “Wal-Mart,” “Dupont,” “Nippon,” “Gome Electronics,” and “Ping’an.” By affirming well-known trademarks, the […]
Read MoreFrom ISSN: It is not surprising that Chinese President Hu Jintao and his colleagues decided in mid-April to cool down anti-Japanese protests: a body blow has been dealt to China’s reputation as a responsible member of the global community. The fact that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) administration was close to losing control over xenophobic […]
Read MoreFrom The Reuters: Beijing’s chief of police has warned residents against staging “illegal” anti-Japanese protests during the week-long Labour Day holiday that starts on May 1, domestic media reported on Saturday. Ma Zhenchuan, director of the Beijing Municipal Public Security Bureau, denied Internet rumours that police had approved at least one demonstration in China’s capital […]
Read MoreFrom The International Herald Tribune: China, the perpetual motion machine of world economies, is showing no sign of letting up in 2005. This month the country posted its second consecutive quarter of 9.5 percent growth in gross domestic product. Consumers, buoyed by consistent increases in benefits and wages, have seen their incomes rise by 10 […]
Read MoreFrom The New York Times: The authorities in Beijing ordered on Wednesday that the next chief executive of Hong Kong serve only the remainder of the term of the previous chief executive, a ruling that critics of mainland policies toward the territory described as a further erosion of Hong Kong’s autonomy. The Standing Committee of […]
Read MoreFrom AFP, via Middle East Times: China’s has 100 million Web users and about 80 percent of them have downloaded music, R2G said in a statement. However, the company said that only a small number of the estimated 7,200 music download Websites in China have the appropriate copyright licenses for the music they distribute.
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