Month: April 2014

Administrative/Regulatory

Measures for Standardizing Petitioning 0 (0)

2014/04/24 China Law Translate 2

These new rules encourage petitioners to write rather than visit, start at the bottom, and take no for an answer. Issued to encourage use of the legal system to resolve problems and to resolve conflict at the local level, these rules may leave many citizens with nowhere to go.

Legal News

Anti-Corruption by the Numbers 0 (0)

2014/04/16 China Law Translate 1

A summary of the excellent and thorough analysis of the current corruption investigations done by the staff of Legal Daily, and translated here. Disciplinary investigations are broken down by substantive area, and geography, and suspects are broken down by age, gender and rank. Very very revealing.

Internet

Special Action Against Online Porn 0 (0)

2014/04/15 China Law Translate 1

This is the official announcement by the Ministry of Public Security and other that a crackdown on pornographic and illegal publications was officially underway! This short document lays out the content and context of the new Clean-Net 2014 special action, which will end in November 2014.