As foreign investors doing business in China, you may be not aware of the situation that some of your China-based business transaction may face a living nightmare of mandatory investigations by Chinese financial institutions under certain circumstances. Trying to avoid such investigations? Firstly, you will have to get some ideas about under which circumstances your …
The Law of the People’s Republic of China on the Protection of the Rights and Interests of the Elderly implemented in 2013 provides in its Article 18 paragraph 2 that: “Family members living apart from the elderly shall visit or greet the elderly regularly.” This provision draws a lot of attentions and discussions from the …
Currently, the animals protected by specific legislation in China are limited to rare and endangered wild animals, but for other common wild animals or pets, there is no specific legislation to protect them from human behaviors such as mistreatment or abandonment. In fact, dated back in 2009, there are lots of advanced animal conservationists and …
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At present, there is no law allowing personal bankruptcy in mainland China. There is only one Enterprise bankruptcy Law of the People’s Republic of China to regulate the bankruptcy procedure of enterprises. However, the time when China will enact and promulgate the personal bankruptcy Law is remained unknown. Professor Li Shuguang, director of the Research …
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According to WIKIPEDIA, a blasphemy law is a law prohibiting blasphemy, which is irreverence or insult toward holy personages, religious groups, sacred artifacts, customs, or beliefs. Currently, China does not have such kind of separate laws or regulations. China is rich in land, large in population, and China is also a multi-religious country. Taoism, Buddhism, …
Yes, China does have copyright laws. The Copyright Law of the people’s Republic of China (“Copyright Law”) was adopted at the 15th meeting of the Standing Committee of the Seventh National People’s Congress on September 7, 1990. According to the 24th meeting of the Standing Committee of the Ninth National People’s Congress on October 27, …
According to the relevant laws and regulations, the use of UPN is not definitely illegal, but it is illegal to provide VPN services without the approval of the competent authority. In China, according to the Classification Catalog of Telecommunication Services, VPN, i.e. the Virtue Privat Network is a kind of value-added telecommunication services and refers …
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In China, weed is divided into two categories: industrial hemp and marijuana, a kind of narcotic drugs. Article 2 of the Regulations on the License for the Cultivation and Processing of Industrisal Hemp in Yunnan Province issued and implemented by Yunnan Provincial Government (“Regulations”) clearly classifies and defines industrial hemp and drug marijuana, which states …
Guaranteed minimum wages was legislated in the Labor Law of People’s Republic of China (“Labor Law”). The Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security, a governmental department responsible for national labor policies, standards, regulations and managing the national social security, set the first minimum wage law on 1 March 2004 (“Minimum Wage Regulation” , referred …
Beware sites that offer some sort of reward or prize in exchange for your contact information or other personal details There’s a very high probability that they are gathering this information for direct marketing purposes. In many cases your name and address are worth much more to them because they can sell it to other …
