Category Archives: Law

A practical handbook for beating street vendors

A chengguan textbook surfaces online. Highlights: how to beat someone without drawing blood.

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Prosecutor’s office arrests meddling CCTV reporter

A People’s Procuratorate in Taiyuan arrests a Beijing-based CCTV reporter who had been investigating it for abuse of power.

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Sprite-for-tax swap leads to 10,000 RMB lawsuit

A customer sues a restaurant for giving her a bottle of Sprite in lieu of a receipt.

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Porn downloader’s punishment reduced to a stern talking-to

Ren Chaoqi’s fine for storing a porno flick on his hard drive reduced from 1,900 to criticism and education.

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A court house for the Olympics

The Olympic Village People’s Court moved out of its temporary location in Yayuncun and into snazzy new digs between the Athletes’ Village and the Badaling Expressway.

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Wahaha chairman has US green card

21st Century Economy Report, a business newspaper has an article revealing that Zong has been a holder of the Permanent Resident Card of the United States since 1999.

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Yunnan lawyer sues CNN

Life News (生活新报): the newspaper reported on its front page about a Yu, nnan lawyer suing CNN.

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Don’t call 110 – it makes a bad impression

Southern Weekly (南方周末) prints a letter in which a business gets fined for reporting a burglary to 110.

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Customs protects Fujian author from his own work

Chen Xiwo (陈希我) gets the Taiwan edition of his novella collection Book of Offenses (冒犯书) seized by customs in Fujian.

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China Businesscast: China’s new labor law, everybody gets tenure

An interview with Steve Dickinson on China’s new labor law.

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