The US is considering legally challenging China over internet restrictions imposed on Google and other American companies.
But US Trade Representative Ron Kirk said that while a case challenging China over censorship was a viable option, a dialogue with Beijing was more likely to obtain positive results.
US trade officials are “trying to make our own determination [...]
A Beijing man who claimed that director James Cameron’s sci-fi epic Avatar was a plagiarism of his online novel had his case dismissed by a Beijing court.
Zhou Shaomou was demanding 8% of total worldwide revenue earned by Avatar – the highest grossing film of all time – alleging that the idea came from a novel [...]
British businessmen working in China were warned that Chinese spies could try to hack into their computers or blackmail them over sexual relationships.
The British security service, MI5, distributed a 14-page document to hundreds of British banks one year ago, warning executives that officers from the People’s Liberation Army and the Ministry [...]
A Beijing court has ordered two Chinese kettle manufacturers to pay US$1.3 million (RMB9.1 million) in damages to a UK company over patent infringements.
The No. 1 Intermediate People’s Court ruled that Zhejiang Jiatai Electrical Appliance Manufacture and Leqing FaDa Electrical Appliance had sold electric kettle controls based on technology developed [...]
China’s State Council has published new regulations which will increase compensation paid to residents of land marked for redevelopment.
The proposed guidelines would require developers to pay market value for homes, and bar relocation teams from cutting off water or electricity to residents who refused to leave. They would also give residents [...]
Nearly 100 gamblers were arrested last December in a secret raid on an illegal casino in the city of Dongguan, Guangdong. Authorities did not publicize the news until last Tuesday.
The raid on the Guangdong city’s largest casino was executed by an army of 500 policy officers and 14 armored vehicles. Those arrested included gamblers from [...]
Xinjiang’s legislature is considering a proposal to increase its public security budget from US$225 million to US$423 million.
Regional Chairman Nur Bekri told the Xinijang People’s Congress that the funds will be used to crack down on terrorism, separatism and religious extremism.
In July 2009, the province was wracked by ethnic violence between Uighurs, the eight million-strong [...]
Prosecutors have taken over the case of four Rio Tinto employees, including Australian national Stern Hu, who allegedly engaged in corporate espionage and bribery.
Police handed over the case to prosecutors, who have at least five months to consider whether to bring the case to trial and if further investigation is needed.
Rio Tinto has denied any [...]
Australian Foreign Minister Steven Smith said yesterday that China has advised Australian authorities that it will extend its probe of Rio Tinto executive Stern Hu by two months.
Smith said he will discuss the issue with his Chinese counterpart, Yang Jiechi, at the APEC summit in Singapore.
Hu and three other Rio employees have been in detention [...]
The four Rio Tinto employees who have been detained by Chinese authorities since early July have been formally arrested and charged.
The official charges levied against them include trade secrets infringement and commercial bribery.
According to previously released statements on the matter led observers to believe that the detainees, including Australian national Stern Hu, would be charged [...]
