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• June 22, 2007 by China Briefing Reading Time: 4 minutes
  

  Mekong countries agree to bridge linking China to Bangkok

  By Andy Scott Senior officials from several Mekong countries agreed yesterday to build a bridge across the Mekong River, linking by road, the southwest province of Yunnan, China with Bangkok, Thailand. The bridge, which, according to the Asian Development Bank, will be financed by the governments of the People’s Republic of China and Thailand, is scheduled[…..]
• June 21, 2007 by China Briefing Reading Time: < 1 minute
  

  White-collar salaries rising faster in China, India than in West

  Pay increases for white-collar jobs in China and India will rise substantially faster than increases in United States and Europe according to new research from Philadelphia-based HR consulting firm Hay Group. The report states that “Much like their colleagues in Europe, US employees will be seeing relatively modest increases in base salaries when compared to the emerging[…..]
• June 21, 2007 by China Briefing Reading Time: < 1 minute
  

  FIEs to get tax rebate for hiring disabled Chinese workers

  Foreign companies with disabled Chinese workers on their payroll will qualify for tax rebates from next year according to a recent announcement issued by the State Administration of Taxation. According to the announcement, the maximum tax rebate per disabled worker will be RMB35,000 a year. Further, disabled workers will be exempt from paying income tax[…..]
• June 20, 2007 by China Briefing Reading Time: 2 minutes
  

  Shanghai and Bombay stock exchanges – different aspirations?

  2point6billion has an excellent post today comparing the Shanghai and Bombay stock exchanges. With so much focus lately on the Chinese stock market – it’s up, it’s down, it’s up again – it’s nice to see an article that doesn’t mention bubbles and corrections for once. Some choice excerpts: The Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) –[…..]
• June 20, 2007 by China Briefing Reading Time: 2 minutes
  

  China world’s largest producer of carbon dioxide

  China has overtaken the United States to become the world’s largest producer of greenhouse gases, a report released today by the Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency. China’s emissions were not expected to overtake the U.S.’s this soon, with some reports placing the date several years in the future. While this report is unlikely to bring too[…..]
• June 20, 2007 by China Briefing Reading Time: 2 minutes
  

  Chongqing celebrates ten years as a municipality

  On Monday, Chongqing celebrated the tenth anniversary of the its establishment as a municipality. Approved on March 18, 1997, the city became China’s fourth centrally-administered municipality after Beijing, Shanghai and Tianjin. Chongqing has been called “the megalopolis you’ve never heard of,” which is probably true for most people outside China. Designated a municipality in 1997, the area was brought under[…..]
• June 15, 2007 by China Briefing Reading Time: 2 minutes
  

  Developing the Yangtze River

  The second tier cities that line the Yangtze River are seeing increased foreign investment as international companies look to move out of the Yangtze River Delta with its high rent and labor costs. As China Briefing pointed out in our November 2006 issue, for export-based businesses in central China, the burden of increased transportation costs[…..]
• June 13, 2007 by China Briefing Reading Time: 4 minutes
  

  The Danone – Wahaha brouhaha

  What began, as all partnerships do, with good intentions and dreams of profits, has come to bitter accusations, angry lawsuits and the very real danger of failure. The dispute between Wahaha and Danone, which continues to grow hotter and more contentious everyday, is threatening to derail a huge investment into the Chinese market by the[…..]