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China Hearsay: comments on law, business, ..

China Hearsay: comments on law, business, ..

The China Beat · Blogging How the East Is Read Danwei China internet Buzz Inside-Out China AIDP Blog — Criminal Law Resources ChinaHush The Peking Duck Beijing Cream China expat and traveller community blog | Lost Laowai China Blog Food No CNY is complete without a few plates of jiǎozi, particularly if you're in the North. And while you can certainly just hop down to the supermarket and pick up a package of frozen dumplings, making your own is a whole lot more rewarding. If you're not fortunate enough to have Chinese in-laws to lend a hand, constructing the suckers can be a bit of a challenge. I danced and filmed all over, including: Beijing, Chengdu, Xi'An, Lhasa (Tibet), Yangshuo, Zhangjiajie, Shanghai, Feng Huang, and Hong Kong. The video is somewhat reminiscent of Matt Harding, who pretty much remains the be-all/end-all dance-around-the-world guy. Ex-China expat Neil Robinson, who made headlines last spring, has been convicted to twelve years in a UK prison for sexually assaulting a girl under the age of 13, making an indecent video of a child, and possessing child pornography. The incident occurred on December 2 and immediately went viral across Chinese social media. Don't get me wrong.

The Becker-Posner Blog August 30, 2009 Do We Need More Regulation of Mortgages to Protect Consumers?--Posner The Treasury Department in its "white paper" of June 17 recommended the creation of a "Consumer Financial Protection Agency," and later followed up with a detailed legislative proposal for a "Consumer Financial Protection Agency Act of 2009." The proposal is pending in Congress. Although the Commission's remit would not be limited to mortgages, risky mortgage lending is the Act's principal target. A recent, and very thorough, article, by Oren Bar-Gill, "The Law, Economics and Psychology of Subprime Mortgage Contracts," 94 Cornell Law Review 1073 (2009), argues that many consumers made themselves worse off by taking out mortgages during the boom (in fact the bubble) period because they could not respond rationally to the offers by the sellers of mortgages. Bar-Gill's concern with inadequate disclosure of the annual percentage interest rate of mortgages does not present a novel regulatory issue.

Chinalogue on environment "中外对话"是世界上致力于环境问题的第一个完全双语网站。气候变化、物种消亡、污染、水资源匮乏以及环境破坏等问题并不仅仅局限在某一国之内,而是全世界所有居民都要面临的挑战, 而正在崛起的中国给他们带来一个新的紧迫任务。应对上述这些挑战需要全世界达成共识,并且共同努力,而我们"中外对话"网站的目标正是促进这种共识的达成。 "中外对话"致力于发布高质量文章,提供双语信息,促进直接对话,为我们共同面临的环境挑战寻求解决方案。 China is growing fast and, as it grows, it is faced with urgent environmental challenges. Climate change, species loss, pollution, water scarcity and environment damage are not problems confined to one country: they are challenges that concern all the world's citizens, but the rise of China gives them a new urgency. "中外对话"是一个独立的非营利性组织,主要以伦敦和北京为基地展开活动。" chinadialogue.net is an independent, non-profit organisation based in London and Beijing. 伦敦办公室 London Office

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