the china law blog pointed this out to me. mastercard has come out with its list of the key cities driving growth in emerging markets worldwide. of the 65 cities that made the list 15 are in china... 1 shanghai 2 beijing 6 guangzhou 10 shenzhen 16 xiamen 17 chengdu 18 dalian 20 tianjin 20 nanjing 22 hangzhou 23 wuhan 24 chongqing 25 qingdao 26 xian 27 ha......
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dan goes after newsweek for labeling all of us in the prc stress cases but when one out of 1.3 billion chinese loses it and commits murder there are apparently all sorts of things we can and should extrapolate. in murder at the drum tower newsweek uses the knifing of the minnesota couple inside beijings drum tower during the olympics as evidence of china being on the ve......
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i would like to thank dan at the china law blog for his recent post about the china observer blog. for new readers i hope you enjoy your visit and come back for more observations in the future. if there are any industryc ompanycul tural trends that you would like me to write about please feel free to contact me .......
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air china to dominate aircraft demand in asiapacific for years to come bombardier bets heavily on china regional aviation kunming airlines to launch in january 2009 shenzhen airport sees reduced number of flights water yang ming seeks closer ties with cosco intercargo calls for consistency in port state checks fog stops shipping in yangtze river mouth china as downturn n....
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why china cant save us from mcmikep2.b logspot.co m yesterday the chinese government announced it would spend nearly 600 billion usd in stimulus efforts. morgan stanleys qing wang and steven zhang gave us a heads up that this was coming here. they expected the announcement of a proactive stimulus policy to be made at the end of the month. not only was it made earlier but pr......
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caution rambling post ahead. i was goaded by dan into reading an article by robert kagan a neocon i usually avoid by goa ded i mean that he mentioned it i am easily influenced as good a foreign policy article as you will find in a us newspaper is a piece is by washington post world columnist robert kagan entitled still no. 1. ......
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lawyers and law firms often decide what area of law to blog on based on whether other lawyers are already blogging on the niche being considered. the logic goes there are already a couple successful law blogs on the topic its too late for us. the latest discussion on the topic arises in comments to a recent blog post of mine . seattle attorney dan harris publisher of the china l......
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figuring out future real estate prices in china is above my pay grade but for those interested in an indepth review of the current thinking on this issue i recommend you go to the china economics blog post housing crisis in continue here a china real estate overview. what next on prices......
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httpshe nzhenunder cover.blog spot.com2 00810chi nesehealt histrend ingtoward s.html. chinese health is trending towards obesity china is getting fat and less healthy. its true. i first wrote about this problem more than a year ago gmfree food news by unknown......
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here is ip think tanks weekly selection of top intellectual property news breaking in the blogosphere and internet. please join the discussion by adding your comments on any of these stories and please do let us know if you think weve missed something important or if there is a source you think should be monitored. you can separately subscribe to the ip think tank gl......
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a lot of this kind of thing going around these days huh heres the latest incarnation of the milk story parents of chinese children who died or became ill after drinking infant milk formula contaminated with melamine say they will sue a subsidiary of a chinese milk powder manufacturer based in the u.s. state of maryland. a member of one of the affected families surnamed liu said qi......
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...k redress in chinas courts from injuries allegedly caused by the recent tainted milk scandal.a see previous cab entry here httpchi nabusiness lawblog.co mp60 httpwww .chinalawb log.com20 0810chin as courts and tainte d milk.htm l class action and related commentary point of law offers analysis of a challenge to the constitutionality of the fisa amendments act of 2008 which pe...
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why if pigs fly as my boss always asks. dan at china law blog beat me to blogging about the new york times article courts compound pain of chinas tainted milk .a doubting that i can say anything more eloquent about this topic i quote dan in full here this new york times article does as good a job of any at setting out the issues china is facing in deciding whether t......
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my last post focused on those chinese cities blacklisted for poor environmental performance but it also mentioned several cities where 90 of the population was sat isfied82 21 with the local environmental protection efforts.a these cities belong on the gold star list. they were concentrated in two provinces shandong and heilongjiang.a well look at the shandong cities toda......
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courtesy of the excellent and alwaysunderstated china law blog and particularly of los angeles lawyer constance kim heres a gem your clients and you can use now the list of international arbitration centers . wed change only one thing it put the iccs international court of arbitration under inte rnational quot rather than under france. and ......
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weird news from the awesome rick over at pandapassport.com i was a little disappointed to see that especially since i had written a pretty hefty dalian piece for them a while back. maybe they figured that if i did one piece probono that i wouldnt mind if they lifted all the stuff id written about dalian i dont know they do link to daliandalian.com on one of their pages but......
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cross posted on daliandalian.com first it was xianzai.com who was stealing our dalian content and reprinting it verbatim on their website. now its chinaexpat.com. i was a little disappointed to see that especially since i had written a pretty hefty dalian piece for them a while back. maybe they figured that if i did one piece probono that i wouldnt mind if they lifted al......
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english translation english translationchina law blog has an excellenta post aup on the latest developments in chinas labor contract law. aas noted by the clb the implementation regulations were promulgated by the state council on september 3 2008 and the regulations became effective on september 18 2008.for the most insightful comments go to thea clb . abut i am attaching an u......
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china law blog whenever there is a big food safety scandal two things happen. companies start calling us asking if we can protect them from such problems we can improve their odds but nothing is guaranteed and the press starts calling us with... read more......
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the mostlinked item this week is toms forward to the new book the john boyd roundtable debating science strategy and war paperback . this book is like a whos who of toms blogfriends so here they are including their posts on the subject edited by mark safranski zenpundit historyguy99 hgs world tdaxp shane deichman wizards of oz lex......
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hong kong has a unique legal situation being a former british colony inheriting the common law.a as a result the hong kong special administrative region hksar has a different legal system than the civil code found in the mainland. to further complicated it hong kong borrows from other common law jurisdictions when necessary.a chapter 4 s. 4 of the basic law of the hong kong s......
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we have been here before with baby milk pet food and sudan red see more here . not to mention the execution of the former head of the state food and drug administration. but the current baby milk powder crisis shows that there is still a serious supply chain risk and that companies need to proactively protect their brands and their consumers. the current sanlu scandal has now be......
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here is ip think tanks weekly selection of top intellectual property news breaking in the blogosphere and internet. please join the discussion by adding your comments on any of these stories and please do let us know if you think weve missed something important or if there is a source you think should be monitored. you can separately subscribe to the ip think tank global we......
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but many companies stop there thinking the job complete. it doesnt occur to them that trademark rights are territorial and that owning a united states trademark registration creates no rights whatsoever outside the borders of the u.s. ive long since lost count of the number of companies who have suffered from this misconception. although we now have several new tools to secure multijuri......
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trademark protection in the global marketplace is at china law blog . his firm is the seattlebased harris moure .......
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