From "Black Paint Incident" to Royal Concubines – China News

First of all happy new year! Bye bye 2009 and hello 2010! ChinaHush is founded in 2009, today I will like to thank everyone for reading and supporting ChinaHush in the past year!

And what would be more appropriate than ending 2009 with another tally?

In China, where the market for imported passenger cars dates back only about three decades, an entirely alternate set of stereotypes is taking root — and the stakes have never been higher for foreign carmakers.

Take, for example, Mercedes-Benz, a brand that in much of the world suggests moneyed respectability. In China, many people think Mercedes-Benz is the domain of the retiree.

The latest in a slow trickle of reports describing child abduction and trafficking in China swept through the tight communities of families -- many of them in the New York area -- who have adopted children from China. For some, it raised a nightmarish question: What if my child had been taken forcibly from her parents?

Harbin Pharmaceutical Group, the first Chinese pharmaceutical conglomerate to have two subsidiaries listed on the Shanghai bourse, used to be portrayed as a good corporate citizen committed to delivering value to society - or so it asserts in its flashy TV commercials.