Xinhuanet.com
China's top legislature adopted Saturday a law on the mediation and arbitration of rural land contract disputes. The law, to take effect on January 1, 2010, is "an effective guarantee" to ensure farmers' land contract management rights and "an...
Time of India
China on Saturday set out to tackle an important cause of political dissent, which is the heart-burning among farmers over forceful acquisition of their lands and poor compensation paid for it. The government admitted that land disputes were a "...
Xinhuanet.com
The Chinese government has asked local authorities to fully implement its first regulation on the lottery industry that will take effect on July 1. The new rule, the first of its kind since lottery sales were allowed in 1987, aimed at enhancing...
Androscoggin News
There were reports earlier this week that China had blocked access to Google ’s Chinese language site, the company’s main English language search page and Gmail . The news followed an ongoing block on access to YouTube , and some recent hoo-hah about...
Xinhuanet.com
China welcomes a U.S. climate change bill and hopes it would take stronger measures to cut carbon emissions, Xie Zhenhua, deputy chief of the National Development and Reform Commission, said Friday. "We think we should give a positive evaluation...
International Business Times
China's Sichuan Tengzhong Heavy Industrial Machinery has agreed to buy the Hummer brand from the bankrupt U.S. automaker but state radio in China reported on Thursday that the country's top economic planning agency was likely to reject the bid. A GM...