(Subtitle: I never have anything nice to say about anyone, even people I like.)
This is not exactly surprising coming from Obama, but the timing is not the best:
China's huge trade surplus with the United States is "directly related to its manipulation of its currency's value," Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama said in a letter released [...]

We'll all be speaking Mandarin in the future, or so it appears.

I hardly know what to say about this one (from the FT):

Backers of a shuttered Chinese business weekly have launched a highly unusual challenge to the country's media censors by filing a lawsuit against the regional government that ordered its suspension over reports critical of a major state bank.
The legal complaint filed on Wednesday in [...]

I have received the following announcement: CALL FOR PAPERS The role of law in the EU and China The establishment of the China-EU School of Law (CESL) was approved in the autumn of this year. Based in Beijing at the…

I have received the following announcement: http://www.internews.org/about/employment/overseas/job_0200o.shtm Employment Resident Journalism Advisor on Legal Reporting, China Location: Beijing, China Background: Internews® Network is an international media development organization based in Arcata, CA and Washington, DC whose mission is to empower people…

I have received the following job announcement. Much of it is in Chinese and not translated, so be aware. I have not included the material regarding the media expert. The International Center for Communication Development (ICCD) is now hiring for…

I have received the following announcement: Research Fellowship The Centre for East and South-East Asian Studies at Lund University hereby invites applications for one Research Fellowship commencing 1 February, 2009 and ending on 31 January, 2013. In this call for…

Every senior executive and financial manager with China oversight responsibility should know about are Cai Jing and Chinaview.cn.  If you are really interested in the official news releases of the Chinese communist party, you can go to the English version of the People’s Daily – now with Google ads.
 
CaiJing  (http://english.caijing.com.cn/ )is an independent financial newspaper that lines [...]

Yes, lawsuits are always fun to discuss, particularly when the markets are down and everyone is worried about getting downsized from work.
Here's a good one brought to us from the always litigious Danwei (comment after the quote):

Today's Beijing Times reports on a legal case in which Huang Jing, a young woman who had earlier been [...]

"What Makes Chinese Wine Red?"
Made be shudder just thinking about it. But I read the story anyway (h/t Digital Times).
Reminds me of a job I had in law school. I was an intern at the Department of Health in Boston, the legal affairs office, which covers not only the health department but Boston City Hospital. [...]