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Australia: Bushels of Fake Apple iPhones from China
Counterfeit sellers were asking for up to $400 for the fake units on the street, to take a margin of nearly $345 on the $55 wholesale price quoted by illegal importers. One seller said he sourced his supply from an...
Tata Says to Its Employees, "Sue Me in India" -- Court Says Tough Toenails
As reported, this presents itself as a very curious case. Foreigners working in the United States who claim they were cheated out of their tax refunds have won the right to have their employment dispute heard in American courts, defeating...
More African Complaints About Chinese Business Practices
Following our 88 Queensway article comes this: At several Chinese-run projects in Windhoek, workers were not wearing safety helmets. The Namibian workers said they must pay for their own safety equipment — for example, $3.65 for a helmet, $1.20 for...
Tianjin Falls to the Japanese -- July 1937
In July 1937, Tianjin (天津－Tietsin) and Beijing (北京） fell to the Japanese. More on the event here, here and, for videos, here. Videos are in Japanese with Chinese subtitles....
Tonghua Iron & Steel Workers Kill Exec in Protest Over Layoffs
More than a thousand steel workers in China's northeast staged an at-times violent protest against the planned takeover of their state-run employer and a group of them killed a top executive at the private company that was to acquire it,...
Video from Hong Kong of Typhoon Molave as Eyewall Passes
This video of the southern eyewall was shot by James Reynolds in Taipo, courtesy of www.TornadoVideos.net....
China Watches the Solar Eclipse
Stunning, but, if this is any indication, how many lost vision in China looking at it through sunglasses?...
The 88 Queensway Group -- A Nexus Between Chinese State Security Organs and Private Overseas Investment?
This fascinating report on the "88 Queensway Group" by the U.S.-China Economic & Security Review Commission details the "private" overseas investment projects of Chinese state-owned entities with substantial connection to the Public Security Bureau and Chinese intelligence. With text like...
Chinese Quarantine of Foreigners For Suspected Swine Flu Continues
China has quarantined 107 British students for swine flu precautions. Quarantine of foreigners for suspected swine flu has reached surprising proportions. U.S. Embassy Spokeswoman Susan Stevenson said the embassy didn't have a total number of Americans quarantined in China, but...
Not China: For Attorneys Whose Clients Want Your Services, But Don't Wish to Pay
How many attorneys have heard something like this from clients? </center...
Guest Post: Lin Bai on China’s Generation Y Consumers
[Editor's Note: Much has been made of China's potential for a consumer, rather than export, driven economy. The potential has caused marketers to salivate in expectancy for centuries. However, estimates of 40 to 50 million Chinese consumers with sufficient disposable...
North Korea TV Shows First Beer Ad
The first person to send me a bottle (can't be empty) of this brew wins this blog's Annual Champion Reader Award!...
US University Researcher Sentenced to Prison for Violation of Export Control Act
Further to this September, 2008 post, a Tennessee University researcher has been sentenced to four years in prison for violation of the Export Control Act. Doug Jacobson writes about it on his excellent trade law blog, here. The court did...
China Law Bibliography -- 2009 -- Now Available for Free Download
Knut Pissler, researcher in law at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law, and his co-editors, have graciously allowed us the opportunity to make available for download their China Law Bibliography. An excellent tool for researchers both...
Sony PCs and Green Dam Filtering Software
Sony seems to have shipped PCs with new filtering software, with interesting instructions to consumers....
Formaldehyde Found by Vietnamese in Clothes Made in China
Given our prior posting on dangerous imports and reader reaction, this may be of interest to readers. The Hanoi Market Control Sub-agency has affirmed that China-made clothes contain formaldehyde, a substance which is harmful to human skin, with the content...
Hong Kong/Mainland China Cross Border Trade to Be Settled in Yuan By Next Month
It appears that cross-border trade between Hong Kong and mainland China may be settled in yuan as early as next month. [Thanks to Frank Caruso at the Chinatex blog.] Note the limitations: The State Council said early in April that...
Legal Trade Mission to China, Privately Sponsored
Now here is a new idea, or at least something I've not heard of before. A legal trade mission to China, organized by Brian Su, who is not himself an attorney, as far as I know. Brian tells me that...
A Further Twist to the Old Attorney Email Scam
Asiabizblog is becoming something of a repository for attorney scam e-mails. Many Google searchers have come to Asiabizblog through keywords associated with scam e-mails they have received. Good for you! I receive at least one a week. Here is the...
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