Legal

Timeline of Apple's ongoing dispute with Proview Technology Shenzhen

Chinese officials confiscated Apple's iPads from shops last week as Proview Technology began to assert its trademark rights

Business tax is levied on transfer of natural resource use rights.

SAT clarifies the tax issue on land assignment with an attachment.

A new regulation from the foreign exchange regulator has returned the right of foreign-invested holding companies to re-invest their dividends in China

The Catalogue has been revised since the 2007 revision. Venture investment enterprises and intellectual property services are added to the encouraged category while the manufacture of assembled automobiles is removed from the category.

Shenzhen Stock Exchange gives definite qualification requirements for independent directors.

Law revised to expand the scope of occupational diseases.

Shanghai encourages the use of overseas renminbi by FIEs for capital contribution.