A bipartisan group of 130 US lawmakers formally called for the US government to enact tariffs on Chinese imports if Beijing does not allow the renminbi to appreciate against the dollar, the >>more...
The vast opportunities in China's rapidly-growing economy are attracting an increasing number of young foreigners to pursue MBAs and to start businesses here in China. >>more...
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The overall number of all visa applications in the Mainland for 2009 is 596,231, a year-on-year increase of 50,000, with student visa applications accounting for 98,500 of them. >>more...
Technology companies in China have begun aggressively trying to poach talent from Google in the wake of its pledge to stop complying with Chinese government censorship rules. >>more...
Academic corruption in China threatens to discredit legitimate researchers, but there is no easy solution >>more...
Some corporate universities are getting more like real universities >>more...
More than 2,300 students in GEOS group schools across Australia were affected after the college collapsed financially. >>more...
China's central government has earmarked $464 million to cover tuition fees of city-born children in primary and junior high schools nationwide. >>more...
In one of the coldest weekends this winter, classrooms where applicants sat for an entrance exam to postgraduate courses were packed with applicants. >>more...
Raising wages is only a short-term solution to the labor shortage >>more...
China's unpopular education minister Zhou Ji was relieved of his post on Saturday by the National People's Congress. No reason was given, though there are suspicions that the former mayor of Wuhan >>more...
Following the enactment of the Labor Contract Law in 2008, the collective groans of rage from foreign invested firms in China rose to the heavens, where they fell on the deaf ears of the Celestial >>more...
The general office of the State Council issued a new circular over the weekend that encouraged recent graduates to seek positions in rural areas, smaller firms or to start their own businesses.
Those >>more...
This week the People's Daily announced that 377 foreigners were found to be working illegally in China. Some knew they were breaking the law, but most were just ignorant of the requirements for work >>more...
Out of Mao’s Shadow: The Struggle for the Soul of a New China
by Philip Pan. Simon & Schuster, New York. US$25
It has been some time since a nonfiction China book evoked much in >>more...
China's a source of low-cost workers, but no one said anything about slavery -- until now, that is. This week has seen a slew of slave, forced and child labor stories in the media. It's making all >>more...
Students in Guangdong province that have to work to support themselves are not protected by labor laws.
New legislation that kicked in earlier this year sets minimum wages for part-time workers at a >>more...
Joseph Kahn of the NYT and IHT reports that Shanghai students are getting new history textbooks this year, ones that will play down the traditional socialist themes and concentrate on the >>more...
Wal-Mart, the retailing giant known for its hostility towards organized workers, is likely receiving the news that some of its Chinese workforce has just formed a trade union considerably well. Why? >>more...
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