China property law bolsters private rights
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China on Thursday unveiled a landmark law on property rights that will bolster protection of private assets and stem illegal expropriation, as the government seeks to balance private investment and state control.
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JERUSALEM, Nov. 21 -- An Israeli advocacy group has found that 39 percent of the land used by Jewish settlements in the West Bank is private Palestinian property, which the organization contends is a violation of international and Israeli law guaranteeing property rights in the occupied territories.
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JERUSALEM, Nov. 21-- An Israeli advocacy group has found that 39 percent of the land used by Jewish settlements in the West Bank is private Palestinian property, and contends that construction there violates international and Israeli law guaranteeing the protection of property rights in the occupied territories....
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The expanded program offers free services to Chinese consumers and small businesses.
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Wang Shengming, deputy director of the NPC Law Committee:  The law will consolidate and facilitate the development of the public sector by clarifying the scope of state and collective property, and the functions of State and collective ownership.
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Beijing introduces a new law to raise standards of food production after a series of damaging scandals.
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South China's booming province of Guangdong is drafting a law to ban the resurgent trend of keeping of mistresses, in a bid to preserve social harmony, local media reported on Wednesday.
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BEIJING, March 8 -- China's legislature began examining a much-debated measure Thursday that is intended to help protect private property in an increasingly well-off society.
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Hong Kong property firm Chinese Estates Holdings Ltd.  is in talks with investors on a possible buyout of the firm, valued at more than US$4 billion, sending its shares up as much as 30 percent to a record high.
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By GEOFF MULVIHILL  MOUNT LAUREL, N.J. - In a victory for private property rights, the state Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that local governments can't seize land against the owner's wishes simply because the property is underused.
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China has honored some of its WTO commitments ahead of schedule. The revised Foreign Trade Law took effect as of July 1, which opened the foreign trade rights a half year earlier than expected.
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Growth in Chinese industrial output picked up last month, boosted by strong export demand, figures show.
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A wealthy Chinese mother who gave birth to her second child in Northern Ireland to obtain EU residence rights won her legal battle yesterday to get round China's "one-child" laws and bring up her daughter in ...
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The state at the center of a national property rights battle moved to limit the use of eminent domain, two years after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that governments may seize property for private development projects.
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China introduces new laws allowing foreigners to apply for longer residency rights.
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The Chinese government is imposing more curbs on foreigners buying Beijing property, reports say.
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BEIJING -- Press freedom got a new -- but temporary -- boost in China yesterday when the government announced that it would allow foreign journalists greater autonomy in advance of the 2008 Summer Olympics.