Local officials were calling and visiting at least a half-dozen families, urging them to drop their cases against the dairies and accept a government-sanctioned compensation plan giving 2,000 yuan ($290) to most victims, said Zhao Lianhai, the father of a child sickened by the milk. At least one family has decided to back out of their lawsuit, said Zhao, who has rallied other families through a Web site he created. "One parent told me, 'I'm more than 30 years old but I've never before seen the county and village officials....
PLI and Morrison & Foerster Break New Ground with the First Complete Guide to Highly Popular Exempt and Hybrid Securities Offerings
PR Newswire
PR Newswire
PLI and Morrison & Foerster Break New Ground with the First Complete Guide to Highly ...
Yahoo Daily News
Yahoo Daily News
China's empty land reform
The Guardian
The Guardian
Recently, Beijing announced new procedures to "give an effective guarantee" to rural citizens that their land rights would be respected by "standardising" arbitration procedures. This is explicit recognition that rural...
Chinese makers of faulty products rarely suffer consequences
The Wichita Eagle
The Wichita Eagle
WASHINGTON - Chinese manufacturers made more than half of the goods that the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission recalled last year, but few of them paid any price for producing defective wares. The long list of...
China Can't Arrest The Momentum Of Charter 08
Wall Street Journal
Wall Street Journal
BY EVA PILS | From today's Wall Street Journal Asia. Official Chinese media announced Wednesday that Liu Xiaobo, one of China's most prominent intellectuals, had been formally arrested on suspicion of "inciting...
Killer of township official on trial in China county
China Daily
China Daily
BADONG, Hubei Province -- A waitress accused of stabbing an official to death and injuring another upon alleged sexual assault on May 10 was brought to court Tuesday in Badong County, central China's Hubei Province. Deng...
Palau president: Gitmo detainees scared of China
Houston Chronicle
Houston Chronicle
MELEKEOK, Palau - Some Chinese Muslims detained at Guantanamo Bay are hesitant about accepting this tiny Pacific nation's offer to take them in because they fear it cannot shield them from China, Palau's president said...
China Technology Files Its Annual Report On Form 20-F
Stockhouse
Stockhouse
HONG KONG, Jun 26, 2009 (GlobeNewswire via COMTEX News Network) -- China Technology Development Group Corporation (Nasdaq:CTDC) ("CTDC" or the "Company"), a provider of solar energy products and...


