Out of all legal representation inquiries emailed to me from expat businessmen in the past three months, over a third were China-related international transaction disputes.
I am currently handling the formations of two restaurant businesses in Shanghai. This article sums up my experience in these tasks and hopefully provide a useful overview for anyone interested in starting a restaurant here.
Applying for Chinese “green card” – Foreigner’s Permanent Residence Permit (“PR“), is not the same as to applying for Chinese citizenship. Expat residents of China who met particular conditions specified by Chinese laws may apply for permanent residence permit, i.e. the applicant may stay in China without time limitation.
Proview would half-way win the battle when it could secure an injunction before a judgement to be rendered. I’ve read in news eariler that Apple’s lawyers said Proview doesn’t even have products, customers and so on. If it’s true, it is blackmail.
Right before this year’s Chinese Spring Festival, five out of more than 60 victims of the housing scam went to the police station together and officially filed their complaint against the alleged swindler Ryan Fedoruk. The preliminary investigation conducted by the police lasted for a month and the result was released on 15th Feb, 2012.
In his first British TV interview the Chinese ambassador to the UK, Liu Xiaoming, talks to Newsnight’s Jeremy Paxman about the nature of modern China and the global role it has to play.
I just watched a documentary Last Train Home. I would highly recommend it to whose who interest in knowing what most Chinese are like nowadays.
The tax concessions that WFOEs, Joint Ventures could enjoy are reflected now mainly in tax refunds.
By Xu Chi | 2012-1-12 | NEWSPAPER EDITION
SHANGHAI police are now probing the case of Ryan Fedoruk, the “disappeared” Canadian fake landlord, who is alleged to have cheated 60-plus expat tenants and apartment owners of more than 340,000 yuan in a subleasing scandal.
Eva Gao
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