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Law For Foreign Business And Investment In China, Vai Lo, Xiaowen Tian
Law For Foreign Business And Investment In China, Vai Lo, Xiaowen Tian
Xiaowen Tian
In trying to establish a presence in China, foreign investors have found it imperative to understand the regulatory environment of this potentially huge market. This book provides an up-to-date overview of the legal framework for doing business in China. It covers such topics as state structure; legislative amendments and enactments on direct foreign investment; the court system; the legal profession; business entities; foreign investment enterprises; contracts; intellectual property; labor and employment; consumer protection; taxation; securities; and dispute resolution.Apart from explaining legal principles, the book highlights liberalisation measures that China has undertaken to fulfil its WTO commitments; elucidates complicated legal concepts …
A Regulatory Reinterpretation To Blow Away Dirty Energy?, Seth P. Cox
A Regulatory Reinterpretation To Blow Away Dirty Energy?, Seth P. Cox
Seth P. Cox
The world is moving towards a renewable energy economy, motivated in part by the well-established impacts of conventional energy sources. Of these consequences, the most notorious is global warming. Global warming is a reality. Emissions of the notorious category of pollutants referred to as greenhouse gases (hereinafter “GHGs”) are generated by combustion of conventional sources of energy and are widely cited as the chief source of human-induced warming. According to the World Health Organization, 150,000 deaths are presently attributable to climate change. And this situation will only worsen over the next several years as global temperatures continue to rise at …