Category «Law»

Chinese officials rebuke journal organ donation data accusation WHO expert backs China’s data, shrugs off scholars’ ‘opinion’

Huang Jiefu, head of the China National Organ Donation and Transplantation Committee, speaks at the Symposium on Development of Organ Donation and Transplantation held in Kunming, capital of Southwest China’s Yunnan Province on Saturday. Photo: Courtesy of the organizer China’s leading organ transplant scholar rebuked a report published in a peer-reviewed medical journal criticizing China’s …

Huawei steps up legal battle Huawei still insists on ‘open attitude, embrace globalization’

Song Liuping, chief legal officer of Huawei, speaks at a press conference at the company’s headquarters in Shenzhen, China, on Thursday. Huawei has filed a lawsuit challenging a recent US Federal Communications Commission. Photo: VCG Amid legal disputes and an escalated crackdown by Washington, Huawei has not stopped moving forward to defend its rights, a …

Calls endure to free Meng US demand for Meng destined to fail: analyst

Huawei chief financial officer Meng Wanzhou, who is out on bail and remains under partial house arrest after she was detained last year at the behest of American authorities, leaves her home to attend a court hearing in Vancouver, on September 23. Photo: VCG Calls were still loud Sunday on Chinese social media for the …

Observers hail successful China AIDS treatment mode Surge in HIV infection rates among teens, elderly prompts call for greater awareness

University volunteers from Xi’an, Northwest China’s Shaanxi Province attach ribbons to a billboard to mark World AIDS Day, which falls on December 1 every year. Photo: VCG The “Chinese pattern” of treatment has helped reduce the mortality rate among Chinese AIDS patients in recent years and proved one of the world’s most effective and cheapest …

Foreign-related intellectual property cases on the rise, mostly involving US

Photo: VCG Foreign-related intellectual property cases have been increasing in China, with many involving the US, accounting for 33.2 percent, a senior judge said on Sunday. In the first half of 2019, the Beijing Intellectual Property Court processed 13,736 foreign cases, accounting for 21.1 percent of its total cases since it was founded in November …

Zhejiang suspects arrested for running gambling app for the blind

Photo: VCG A criminal gang was nabbed by the police in East China’s Zhejiang Province for running a gambling app for visually-impaired people. The app, “Xiangni Entertainment,” made 9 million yuan ($1.3 million) in eight months, according to the Binjiang district public security bureau in Hangzhou, Zhejiang, The Beijing News reported on Sunday. The police …

4th plenum of 19th CPC Central Committee set Plenum to improve socialism with Chinese characteristics

Photo: VCG The fourth plenary session of the 19th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC) will be held from October 28 to 31 in Beijing, according to a decision made at a CPC Central Committee Political Bureau meeting on Thursday. Xi Jinping, general secretary of the CPC Central Committee, presided over the …

Guangdong may entitle teachers to punish students with standing and running Guangdong adjusts school punishments

Primary school students in Handan, North China’s Hebei Province hold smiley cards to celebrate World Smile Day, which falls on May 8 every year. Photo: IC Is standing in the corner or being forced to run a lap counted as a corporal punishment in schools? South China’s Guangdong Province may entitle their teachers to punish …

Over 20,000 people sign up for HK govt 1st public dialogue: Lam

Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor holds a press briefing on Tuesday. Photo: Zhao Juecheng/GT Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor, Chief Executive of Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (SAR) will meet members of the public at the first community dialogue session that will be held at the Queen Elizabeth Stadium in Wan Chai, Hong …

Revised law opens door to cheap Indian generic medicine

Cheap generic drugs from India are attracting lower income Chinese patients. Photo: IC Legal foreign drugs, including generic drugs from India, will not be treated as fake medicines in China based on a revised drug administration law that will take effect on December 1. China’s top legislature, the Standing Committee of National People’s Congress, passed …