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Williams Loft Case Study About Sourcing in China at All Roads Lead to China
Restructuring Restructuring: State-Owned Enterprise Reform in the PRC (Part 3) at Boulder2Beijing
China Environmental Torts at China Environmental Law
is “no more chinese knock-offs” an empty threat? at China Esquire
China, India and Oil Prices at China Hearsay
Why Western Employers […]

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A growing consumer demand in India and China means that citizens will not only be spending their disposable income in shops, but will also be surfing online for the hottest deals. A recently concluded Master card survey said that by 2010, China will reign as the highest online shopping turnover at about […]

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At some point I stumbled upon this 2007 article from King & Wood attorneys Seagull Song Haiyan and Xu Yuezhu, Computer Software Protection in China. Yeah, there’s some interesting legal technical stuff in there about the different avenues to protect software in China, but what really interested me was a […]

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A recent editorial in the Peoples daily, ran a piece on the Chinese view of India-Pakistan relations, something it hasn’t done too often. At a time, when China’s soft power in the region is being questioned, the editorial seeks to comment on the people’s view of India-Pakistan anti-terrorism efforts, saying that although […]

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Way back when I directed visitors to a MOFCOM site full of laws & regs., news, and (somewhat aged) cases related to foreign direct investment in China. Today, I stumbled across a Cliffs Notes version of the same material with a specific focus on Shanghai, Shanghai Foreign Investment Development Board. […]

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American in theme, Sex and the City has been devoured by Asian women who all secretly desire to be like Carrie Bradshaw and her entourage. Living vicariously, single in a cosmopolitan city, Manolo heeled and smart-talking, the girls are envied by Asian women who have watched the episodes endlessly and see a […]

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The economic powerhouses - India, China and Brazil are not just guzzling oil and gulping steel, they are also minting millionaires. The rich are getting richer - the number of millionaires jumped 22.7 percent in India last year, 20.3 percent in China and 19.1 percent in Brazil, according to the 12th annual […]

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Continuing on yesterday’s theme of Asian fashion fetishes and luxury brand indulgences here’s a look into how the biggest brand in tennis - Wimbledon is cashing in on Asia’s nouveau riche, and how China and India, with their fast-growing economies, have provided a fertile ground for Wimbledon in an ambitious bid to […]

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I feel a special connection with stories about tort in the US. It has a lot to do with seeing Bill Lerach speak at my school about the justice he wrought in the world, pre-incarceration of course. Note to aspiring class action tort attorneys, it is not legal to give […]

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Would you buy a US$1,000 dress if you knew the tag on it said “made in China”? A recent report by the Guardian thinks otherwise. In an article on the increasing influence of Asian shoppers, the Guardian says - Asian shoppers are particularly origin-conscious as French and Italian luxury goods are important […]

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I am now situated beyond the Great Firewall of China. My RSS is getting testy, and I apologize for not getting everything in here.
Soccer & China’s Manhood at Pomfret’s China
My favorite American journalism, the kind I read in anthologies, is 20th century sports journalism. I really appreciate the aesthetic. I’d […]

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China increased energy prices across the board yesterday in an important policy shift that is likely to have an impact both inside and outside the country.
On the one hand the measure is bound to add to the country’s already high inflation rate. On the other, if the rate of demand […]

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India and China neighbors although they are, the two countries still don’t see eye to eye on all issues political or economic. Today, even though economists may celebrate the increasing trade between the two nations, its still comparatively very small and India and China both need to reach across the lofty Himalayas […]

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Continuing India’s trend of spreading its wings globally, Ratan Tata’s IT and telecommunications business, Tata Communications, signed an equity joint venture with shareholders of China Enterprise Communications Ltd (CEC) to acquire a 50 percent stake in the Chinese firm for an undisclosed amount, reuters reported.
The joint venture, signed through Tata […]

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Short video from Reuters by way of Scientific America, Beijing Goes Green For Olympics.
The video briefly discusses the airborne particle problems posed by factory pollution and sandstorms, as well as the measures that China’s government is taking to to reduce airborne particles. A little yawn-inducing, but at then out of […]

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Are global financial institutions proving to be defunked in the face of inflation and a global food crisis, and is it up to Asia as the emerging center of world power to take the lead in finding solutions? Business leaders who met at the annual World Economic Forum on East Asia, a […]

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Tax Benefits Under China’s New Corporate Income Tax Law: Much Unfinished Business at China Law Blog
Why do people oppose globalization? at Marginal Revolution
Free Trade Identity Crises at This is China
Interesting case on non-competition clauses in employment contracts at Chinese Law Prof Blog
Short-term Policy Effect and Long-term Market Force at […]

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China’s industrial-production growth accelerated on rising exports, signaling that the world’s fourth-biggest economy is weathering a global slowdown. Output rose 16 percent in May from a year earlier after gaining 15.7 percent in April, the statistics bureau said today.

Overseas shipments surged last month and retail-sales growth was close to the […]

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Oil, politics, poverty, enviromental and security issues aside, the most absurd story dominated headlines of the worlds largest read english daily - the Times of India today. Headlines read - “1,500 manholes stolen, BMC says olympics to blame”. The BMC or Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation , is the corporation in charge of the […]

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A recently held wine auction in Hong Kong sold US$8.2 million of fine vintages and smashed at least five world auction records for some of the world’s finest wines clocking Asia’s largest such sale till date.
Asia primirarily a fruit and rice wine consuming continent is now gulping down more of the fermented […]

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China’s inflation rate slowed to 7.7 percent in May 8.5 percent in April, the statistics bureau said. Aprils number was not far from February’s twelve year high of 8.7%.

However China’s money-supply growth accelerated to the fastest pace in four months in May, adding pressure on the central bank to prevent […]

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Shanghai vaulted into the ranks of the world’s leading centres of commerce, becoming one of eight Asian cities among the top 25, while Mumbai, improved its tally by 3 notches, emerging as the 7th most preferred destination for investment in 2008, a study by MasterCard said.
Tokyo retained its spot as Asia’s top […]

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Victor Mallet, Financial Times Asia editor, discusses how the most potentially significant and historically most damaging area of the world for America has played a minor role in the presidential debate so far in American candidates ignore Asia at their peril. There was “populist anti-China rhetoric that marked the early […]

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