What we’ve been reading recently:

Marbridge Consulting: Beijing Tax Bureau to Regulate Online and TV Shopping - “The bureau issued a list of 10 “typical” tax loophole cases for 2007 yesterday, among which was TV shopping company Beijing Guanghui Jiyuan Trade’s evasion of taxes of more than RMB 19 mln over four years” - bad news for the VCs | business china tax venturecapital

Marbridge Consulting: Baidu Offers Free Ad Space to Support Olympics - In addition to free ad space, the search engine company will also start offering ‘golden placement’ spaces costing RMB10 million a pop | baidu china internet

The Green Leap Forward: Managing the Mobile Dragon: Disruptive Systems Over Disruptive Technologies - Nice post on the problems and solutions confronting China as its auto industry grows. This blog is provides pretty good coverage on China’s cleantech scene. We’ve added it to our RSS reader. | Cleantech cars china environment

One-Eyed Panda’s Journal: China Visa Update - Good roundup of new (unofficial?) regulations governing tourist and business visas | china visa

Venturebeat: Infinia, a solar power startup, attracts attention from iPod and iPhone manufacturer - Foxconn has a US$7 million stake in this solar concentrator start up | Cleantech Foxconn Solar

+8* | Plus Eight Star: China’s Facebook gets US-grade amount of money - but who are they? - Analysis of Softbank’s reported investment in Xiaonei, China’s Facebook-clone | PE VC china internet investment privateequity venturecapital

The Yuan Also Rises: The F-Visa Blues - Pretty scary story of a foreigner living in Beijing being rudely awakened by police demanding to see his papers at 630 in the morning | china visa

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