The Daily Twit – April 13, 2010

Today’s @Chinahearsay Tweets, edited for relevance:

  1. Latest China Hearsay: “Navigating the Nuclear Summit: You Have Good Reason to be Confused” http://bit.ly/aFI71v
  2. Why does everything remind me of The Big Lebowski? RT @niubi http://english.people.com.cn/90001/90776/90882/6949498.html – Nice marmot.

  3. New MOST rules: licensees qualify & I don’t see the word “exclusive” anywhere. That has been the big hurdle w/HNTE certification.

  4. Latest china/divide: The Middlenuts Will Fail While The Wingnuts Prevail http://bit.ly/9BXCg3

  5. MOST rules: I’d really like to know what this means & whether it is subjective requirement. Products must: 产品符合国家法律、法规,符合国家产业政策和技术政策。                

  6. MOST rules are not gov’t procurement rules, but a program recognized by gov’t procurement system

  7. New MOST rules on National Independent Innovation Products http://bit.ly/9cZPus

  8. SOP. “China to tighten IPR protection during Expo” http://bit.ly/9H19i7

  9. Excellent standards info. RT @wolfgroupasia: Nokia, SARFT, The Next Standards Battle, and the Future of a Medium: http://wp.me/pgrML-bk

  10. Strange that this Businessweek puff piece on Amway China came out same day as the Avon announcement. http://tinyurl.com/yyjsvs3

  11. Miller Chevalier: “An Examination of the SEC’s Application of Disgorgement in FCPA Resolutions” http://tinyurl.com/ybc4tmw – this is a trend 

  12. Latest China Hearsay: “China’s Involuntary Commitment System Needs to be Changed” http://tinyurl.com/ychy349

  13. No onions, garlic, leeks before duty for SH Expo police? http://tinyurl.com/yb5prxa

  14. Anybody know who Avon was paying off? MOFCOM has approval authority over direct marketing under the 2005 rules.

  15. RT @danwei “Monopoly probe coming for mining companies” http://tinyurl.com/y6kkjrz

  16. RT @littleredbook: Part 3: China Social Media In The Zone http://bit.ly/dvFIxQ

  17. RT @niubi: Shanda wants 2 become Amazon of China by dominating nascent ebook mkt 陈天桥要打造中国亚马逊_新浪 http://goo.gl/DdQb

  18. RT @wolfgroupasia “How Mobile is My Valley?” http://tinyurl.com/y3r8jj2

  19. This is e.g. of abuse of system (c last Tweet): RT @niubi: Chinese Police dump ’sane’ banker in mental hospital – http://tinyurl.com/y4xb4vs

  20. “Compulsory mental commitments by police under fire” This is a big problem, has been abused a lot in the past. http://tinyurl.com/y5u7trc

  21. Martin Wolf: “Evaluating the renminbi manipulation” http://tinyurl.com/y6372q2

  22. RT @NiuB: Schauer’s bill would block Chinese goods from U.S. gov’t contracts until U.S. products treated fairly in PRC: http://bit.ly/cf7GHH

  23. RT @allroads “Good Luck Managing This Lot” http://bit.ly/biyQcT

  24. Uh oh. Carrefour has a dead employee on its hands after a dispute over 600 RMB. http://bit.ly/cPTsSA

  25. Paul Midler: “Food & Drug Scandals You Missed” http://bit.ly/c4AgLd

  26. “IP Excerpts from USTR’s 2010 Nat’l Trade Estimate Rept on Foreign Trade Barriers” http://bit.ly/bfhejW – good summary of Special 301

  27. “Careful What You Wish For: Greater IP Enforcement In China Being Used Against Int’l Cos” http://bit.ly/a3cIXS – poor generalization

  28. @raykwong Wow, this CNN “China Rising” piece really is horrible. http://bit.ly/bK35cZ

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2 Comments

  1. none of the bit.ly links come up (blocked?). could you use some other way (goo.gl, tinyurl.com are fine) pretty please?