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The Duck links to FP Magazine's list of the top ten worst Chinese laws. As is frequently the case at the Duck - the meat is in the comments.

China, while it is trying to unify its laws and enforcement of IP law (and other laws, for that matter), is a huge nation. I keep reminding people that China has a landmass that is far more comparable to the entire EU than to America. Inevitably, there are bound to be differences.

An investigative look into China's "black jails" and how petitioners, breaking no Chinese laws, are being imprisoned, beaten or just plainly ignored when they bring their problems to Beijing.

In careful adherence to China’s laws that prohibit evangelizing, the Bible is not on sale in mainstream Chinese bookshops but through a distribution system managed by the official church, such as stalls set up for people attending morning service, according to the Times of London report.

It is estimated that China has about 123 million Internet users. About 15.4 of them are youths. Of those, 2 million are considered Internet addicts...and the number is growing.

China's top legislature, the Standing Committee of National People's Congress is reviewing law amendments to ...

China's weapons laws are among the world's toughest. Its blanket ban on private ownership of rifles, pistols and even gun replicas is a core tenet of social policy. Still, a gun culture is taking hold.

With dog meat banned from the official Olympic menu, dog owners in Beijing have a hard time dealing with the dog ownership laws imposed upon them.

They are fleeing a living hell but often meet an even more nightmarish fate. Michael Sheridan on the Chinese border with North Korea meets the ragged, desperate refugees Christian groups are trying to smuggle to safety.

Xiao Nao is a single university graduate working as an ad copywriter in Shanghai. She has a year of work experience and could probably go elsewhere and live better, but she stays, and survives, on 1,000 RMB per month.

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