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Tighter visa restrictions or just more of the same?

Ryan / June 28, 2012 / 22 Comments

According to Shanghai Daily, the National People's Congress Standing Committee is currently discussing a draft law that will shorten the minimum stay for foreigners who come to China to 90 days, with the residence permits ranging in validity from six months to five years.

The draft law was designed with the aim of curbing the illegal entry, stay and employment of foreigners and stipulating harsher punishments for …

Time Out tangled in twisted web of Chinese regulations

Ryan / June 13, 2008 / 5 Comments

I just got finished reading that Time Out Beijing, one of the city's preeminent English-language entertainment guides, has been suspended indefinitely.

Not, as one might guess, because it had been publishing subvert-the-youth articles or anything of the sort - but simply because it wasn't properly licensed.

Fair enough.

I mean, in pretty much any country you'd need proper business licenses and if you didn't …