A former assistant project manager of a construction engineering company has been jailed 33 months by the District Court for accepting $420,000 in bribes from subcontractors in relation to a Civil Engineering & Development Department landslip preventive measures project.
2007-10-31
Apparently Jeremy Goldkorn, or at least his sources. Danwei has an interesting post on the dismantling of the Yunnan hukou system:
The Yunnan government has announced that beginning on January 1 of next year, Yunnan province will eliminate the current hukou registration system that essentially binds rural Yunnanese to their officially registered place of residence.
This is [...]
2007-10-31
Red Kemp asks whether more IP professionals in China will necessarily lead to better IP enforcement (h/t China Law Blog).
Of course it will. Consider the following (also read my post on the IPR Roundtable, where this topic came up repeatedly):
1. The biggest problem with China trademarks is pendency (2+ years currently for registration; God knows [...]
2007-10-30
Radio Television Hong Kong disc jockey Leung Ka-fai has admitted making $10,600 worth of false script-writing and research services payment claims.
2007-10-30
A Police Studies symposium will be held at Police Headquarters October 29 and 30. It will cover policing and enforcement against illegal Internet activities, quality and management of law enforcement agencies, and general police studies and research on policing issues.
2007-10-30
IP Dragon beat me to this issue by one day (curses!), as he frequently does. On the plus side, he has all the links right there for you, alleviating me of the responsibility of cuttin' and pastin' a lot of stuff. Nothing wrong with that.
What's the issue this time? China debated [...]
2007-10-30
On October 25, the US Department of Commerce issued a notice requesting public comment on whether it should consider granting market-economy treatment to individual respondents in antidumping proceedings involving the People's Republic of China ("China"), the conditions under which individual…
2007-10-30
A few months ago, when I was out in the market, this would have been great news (from Shanghai Daily):
The average salary in China's urban areas has increased to 16,675 yuan(US$2,233) during the first three quarters of this year, a year-on-year jump of 18.8 percent, the National Bureau of Statistics said today.
Now that I'm safely [...]