The new requirement comes after several recent news reports on foreign teachers sexually abusing their students (see here and here).
The announcement reads:
Per the requirements of the Regulations on the Administration of Employment of Foreigners in China, the Regulations on Foreign Experts’ Applications for Employment Permits, etc., foreigners applying to work in China should submit a certificate of no cri…
The Shanghaiist reports that after a night of heavy drinking an unidentified foreigner in Guangzhou chose the wrong prostitute to haggle with.
After haggling for a while with the 50 year old woman, the two cut a deald for 500 yuan and were seen leaving together in a taxi and checking into a nearby hotel.
Unfortunately for the foreigner, he made the rookie mistake of giving the woman a glimpse of his bulging walle…
I’m trying to be a good citizen or resident or businesswoman or whatever you want to call me.
I figure I use the things that tax money buys. I use the roads and the street lights at night. I use the parks and the heavily subsidized public transportation.
So I figure it's only right that I ought to pay taxes.
Since avoiding paying taxes remains significantly easier than the act of actually paying taxes, I pre…
As a bit of a follow-up to my post the other day, Tighter visa restrictions or just more of the same?, here is a link to a guest post by Gary Chodorow at the Shanghaiist which outlines everything you need to know about China's new Exit-Entry Law:
All you need to know about China's new Exit-Entry Law
You can also check out Gary's comment on the post mentioned above, as well as his blog.…
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 …
Because living in China didn't feel uneasy enough, a new draft law currently under review will require any foreigners staying longer than 6 months in China to have their fingerprints taken by the Entry & Exit Bureau and kept on file.
China Daily: Foreigners who stay in China for more than six months will be required to give their fingerprints to local police when applying for residence certificates, according to a…
I'm trying to be a good citizen or resident or businesswoman or whatever you want to call me.
I figure I use the things that tax money buys. I use the roads and the street lights at night. I use the parks and the heavily subsidized public transportation.
So I figure it's only right that I ought to pay taxes.
My tax rate really isn't all that high.
In fact, my accountant's monthly fee to file my taxes is m…
This is clever.
So a few years ago Google enters China and is put under a global grilling lamp on whether or not it will adhere to local laws regarding censorship and its search results. Don't Be Evil held for a little while, but 300+ million Chinese Internet users was bound to make anyone check their morals at the gate eventually. But then, after floundering around in the country for a few years, they largely sai…
Usually I love living in China, thirstily drinking the kool-aid that this place is changing for the better, improving a little bit every day. Sure it has its warts, but compared to 5 years ago, 15 years ago, 35 years ago... it's definitely improving -- right?
Then Youtube gets blocked, Facebook and Twitter follow, as do pretty much all major UGC/SMS sites. Ok, ok, it's a complete pain in the ass, seems totally bac…
"For we have a right to choose the society most acceptable to us"
-- John Stuart Mill, On Liberty
Before I came to China I was asked a series of questions which seemed normal at the time but now seem completely laughable. They included "Is there a curfew?", "Are there police everywhere?", and "You'll be careful, right?". Clearly my friends and family had seen the tanks in Tienanmen, and heard Richard Gere's t…
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