During her speech at a conference on quality and safety issues held on Thursday, Chinese Vice Premier Wu Yi described a new four-month nationwide campaign to improve the quality of goods and food safety as a "special battle" to ensure the people's health and interests and maintain a good image of Chinese products.
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Today's Links: Shanghai index tops 5000, jailed dissident's wife under house arrest and a 'Broader Asia' without China?
Today's Links: St. Lucia, mistresses and p0rn
"Tough-talking Chinese Vice Premier Wu Yi is to meet with key Congressional panels during her visit to Washington this month for a "strategic economic dialogue" launched by the two powers in December, Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson said."
A survey found that the standard of living of migrant workers isonly about one half of that of city residents.
"The police officer's actions in firing his revolver in the air sparked further fierce clashes with protesters and was attacked by critics as heavy-handed and an affront to freedom of expression."
"St. Lucia indicated last week that if it resumed relations with Taipei, it would still want to be friends with Beijing. The Chinese Embassy sent a rebuff on Friday, saying that China does not accept 'double recognition.'"
"With no more investment than a computer and a taste for taking risks, several dozen Webbased investigative journalists have set up sites and started advertising their willingness—for a price—to look into scandals that traditional reporters cannot tou
"Authorities believe Mak, a naturalized U.S. citizen, took thousands of pages of documents from his defense contractor employer, Power Paragon of Anaheim, and gave them to his brother, who passed them along to Chinese authorities over a number of years."
"...A much larger inheritance battle has transfixed Hong Kong residents: a will purported to have been written by one of the world's wealthiest women, Nina Wang, leaving her feng shui adviser an estate estimated at more than $3 billion."
"From June 1 any official found to be keeping a mistress will face dismissal. Government officials, who are usually men, frequently socialise in the evening as part of their job. "
"A bear riding a bicycle is chased by his trainer during an animal performance for the Chinese May Day holidays at the Shanghai Wild Animal Park."
"Colonial-era war graves in Hong Kong have been left riddled with schoolboy spelling errors, including China spelt Cihna and Hong Kong spelt Honc Honc after a renovation project, a news report said on Wednesday."
"Danshui Lu is so warmly old school urban living, it begs the question: what bad road is life taking us down when we forgo this type of community living for an overly stylized, space wasting, luxury flat on the 27 floor of some soulless concrete tower?"
"Chinese police have received more than 13,000 reports about pornographic material on the internet since the nation launched a campaign to restrict the spread of online pornography on April 12." Only 13,000?
"The comment was among insights Yang shared with more than 1,000 Chinese and US technology entrepreneurs gathered in the California city of Santa Clara to discuss opportunities and challenges presented by the meteoric growth of China's economy."
"Tourists disgusted by stinking toilets at Chinese tourist sites or even angrier because they can't locate it are in for a pleasant surprise in east China - a 'restroom revolution' is taking shape before their eyes and noses."
"Chinese netizens spend ten times more money on the internet than people in developed countries. A World Bank report ... reports Chinese netizens spend an average of 83.5 yuan on the internet every month, more than 10 percent of their monthly income."
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Today's Links: WiFi, piracy and vendorless streets
"Drafting a new licensing rule for online magazines is on the agenda of China’s administration of press and publication, which will require online magazines to obtain license from the government before publishing, China Business News reported."
"To counter the trend, here's our list of Shanghai cafes that still keep the free wifi faith."
"Shanghai's efforts to build a city-wide taxi call center has suffered a body blow with the decision of Haibo, its biggest member company, to quit the 96965 hotline service, the Youth Daily reported today."
"Allowing street business on the two streets will not only affect tourists' impressions of the city but will also hamper traffic flow, the bureau said in a proposal about rules for street stalls, the Oriental Morning Post reported today. "
"The suspects range in age from 15 to 18 years old and all hail from Anhui Province, according to prosecutors. They allegedly couldn't find jobs in the city and decided to steal some money to return home."
"The ruling came amid U.S. pressure for Beijing to stop rampant copying of music and other goods."
"U.S. complaints to the WTO over commercial piracy in China will 'badly damage' cooperation, Vice Premier Wu Yi warned on Tuesday, insisting that China has made great strides in protecting patents and copyrights."
"China's chief censor has been been removed from his post, state media reported Tuesday, following an outcry this year over a reported decision to ban eight books."
"A Chinese college has introduced fingerprint scanners to stop students playing truant ... Meiya College of International Studies at Hunan University spent 250,000 yuan (16,000 pounds) last year to install the scanners in each of its 30-plus classrooms."
"Chinese authorities acknowledge the safety problem and have promised repeatedly to fix it, but the disasters keep coming."
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Chinese co. sues for IPR protection in US, hell freezes over
As the convential wisdom goes, China will not respect other's intellectual property rights (IPR) until its own IPR needs protection. If this is true, then IPR in China recently took a significant step forward as the Financial Times is reporting that a litigious Shenzhen USB flash drive manufacturer Netac has hired Morgan Lewis & Bockius to sue New Jersey computer hardware manufacturer PNY Technologies for infringing upon Netac's patent for USB flash memory drives, or key drives (that's US Patent #6,829,672 for you IP boffins out there).
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