Jinjiang Longzhibu Shoes Co Ltd and Jinjiang Kangwei Shoes Co Ltd have been ordered by a Shanghai court to pay the global shoe giant Nike 350,000 RMB (approx. US$46,000) in compensation for a copyright infringement.

The first half of 2007 saw China export approximately 241,000 motor vehicles, Russia being the biggest market. This was an increase of 71.2% on the same period in 2006.

A Chinese lawyer known to the media only as ‘Shan’ has sued the world’s largest restaurant chain for using mostly English on receipts in its restaurants in China. The case opened in Beijing on Thursday 26th July. Shan claims...

Justin Yifu Lin, chief of the China Centre for Economic Research at Beijing University, recommends that China increases resource tax in order to encourage energy saving and curb environment degradation.

PetroChina is to issue stocks on the Shanghai Stock Exchange, it announced on Wednesday, with the move set the make China’s largest producer of crude oil the largest state-owned firm floated on the bourse.