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China IPR clampdown targets karaoke royalties
Jan 3 – As far as New Year’s resolutions go, China is looking to further crack down on intellectual property rights violations as is seeks to burnish its image as a IPR wasteland where anyone can borrow, beg or steal someone else’s hard earned intellectual property. Xinhua reported yesterday that nearly half of Chinese provinces have […]
January/February China Briefing now available online
The January/February issue of China Briefing is now available online. The new issue includes a good look at some annual house-keeping that needs to be carried out at this time of year – the renewal of corporate business licenses, the annual statutory audit, and individual income tax filings. Foreign Individuals and invested companies have until the end of […]
Spratly Islands RMB
The Spratly Islands are a group of more than 100 small islands and reefs in the South China Sea. The islands, which are claimed in whole or in part by China, Taiwan, Vietnam, Philippines, Malaysia and Brunei, sit atop potentially large oil and gas deposits, are surrounded by rich fishing grounds and are located on […]
AmCham report: Business environment healthy, second- and third tier cities the future
AmCham Shanghai recently released their 2007 China Business Report, a survey of AmCham’s corporate members and their experiences operating businesses in China. With one-third of all respondents having done business in China for 1o—20 years and seven percent for more than 20 years, the American companies that provided information for the report have significant experience operating […]
Season’s Greetings from China Briefing
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Chinese Silver Dragon Coins
7 Mace and 2 Candareens Dec. 21, 2007 – China only began producing mass circulation silver coins in 1889 when the first modern coining press was imported into the country. As circulated coins until then had largely been the Mexican Silver Dollar, the new coins were based on these, but with Chinese styling. The denomination […]
Working together to make a difference: CSR in China
With the season of giving upon us, corporations find themselves having to both consider employee bonus packages for their employees as well as some sort of charitable giving ahead of the end of the tax year. With this in mind, we have decided to publish an excerpt from our upcoming China Briefing 2008 Regional Business […]
M&As rise 18 percent through first 11 months of 2007
Mergers and acquisition deals in China jumped 18 percent to more than 1,700 in the first 11 months of 2007 according to a PricewaterhouseCoopers report released on Wednesday. The total M&A deals were worth more than 80 billion U.S. dollars, up 25 percent from the same period a year earlier. Of the total, 987 deals were […]
