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China is overhauling its immigration law regime. A new Exit-Entry Administration Law (EEAL), enacted by the National People’s Congress Standing Committee, became effective July 1. New State Council regulations became effective September 1. The law and regulations cover, among other things, visas, entry, and exit; stay, residence, and permanent residence; and investigation, penalties, and deportation. The new immigration law
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You might have read headlines saying that Burberry had lost its trademark rights in China. Not quite. Yes, it is embroiled in a complicated, but familiar, trademark dispute with a competitor, but it’s a bit early to close the book on this one.
The backstory here is that Burberry has been fighting with a Taiwanese competitor for nearly a decade. These guys use a similar tartan pattern on their…
L’Oreal announced that its plant expansion project in Yichang, Hubei, has been completed. This factory is now L’Oreal’s largest cosmetics manufacturing base in the Asia Pacific region. Over its two-year expansion construction, L’Oreal invested over CNY200 million in this plant. After the expansion, the plant has a total area of over 70,000 square meters and
Longtime followers of China Hearsay will not be surprised to see that the topic forcing me off the proverbial blogging sidelines is religion, the question being whether China should use the “beneficial” aspects of organized religion to promote social harmony. This of course made my head explode and drove me to the keyboard. To be honest, though, this post is also the product of some self-inflicted mental ass-kicking. I’ve…
Hong Kong, November 27, 2013 /ChinaNewswire.com – Xinwengao.com/ – As a peer-to-peer digital currency, Bitcoin’s decentralized nature has already pushed the value of a single Bitcoin in the past few weeks up more than 300%. And www.bitebimi.com (which means Bitcoin Rice in Mandarin Chinese) is helping to foster…
VideoForget about diversification. It is conviction that is going to score attractive returns. This is the investment principle that Anla Cheng and her firm, Shanghai-based Sino-Century China Private Equity Partners, follow. So far it has worked out well. Sino-Century, whose first fund has $73 million, has about half of its assets
VideoForget about diversification. It is conviction that is going to score attractive returns. This is the investment principle that Anla Cheng and her firm, Shanghai-based Sino-Century China Private Equity Partners, follow. So far it has worked out well. Sino-Century, whose first fund has $73 million, has about half of its assets
This three-part series looks at shady Chinese agencies promoting U.S. birth tourism: Part 1 is an English translation of an investigative report about these agencies by Yicai, a Chinese financial news website. It focuses on the motivations of the intended parents from Mainland China. Part 2 discusses Hong Kong’s struggle with the problem.
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Gary Locke says he’s informed President Obama that he will step down from his post as ambassador to China. Locke took the post in August 2011, after having served as U.S. Secretary of Commerce and two-term governor of the State of Washington. He says that one of his greatest achievements was helping to reduce waiting times for a
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VideoThe first time I talked with famed investor Jim Rogers face-to-face, it was on the high-speed train from Tianjin to Beijing. It was almost mid-night. After a full day of ceremonies and events, he was thoroughly exhausted, yet still managed to stand for the duration of our on-camera interview traveling
