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China, Taiwan - August 23 2012
On 9 August 2012, after two years of negotiation, Mainland Chinese and Taiwanese negotiators signed two cross-strait agreements; the Cross-strait Bilateral Investment Protection and Promotion Agreement ("IPA"), and the Cross-strait Customs Cooperation Agreement.
China - August 13 2012
The internal conflict between CIETAC's Beijing headquarters and the Shanghai and South China (Shenzhen) sub-commissions has been going on for several months.
China - June 8 2012
The Legislative Affairs Office of the State Council of the PRC published recently the draft Implementing Regulation for the PRC Law on Guarding State Secrets (the "Regulation") for public comment.
China - May 9 2012
Media in China recently reported the sentencing of two Beijing securities analysts to five years and six months in prison and six months in prison with one year probation respectively for obtaining and deliberately divulging State secrets relating to PRC macroeconomic data.
Asia-Pacific - February 10 2012
An amendment sheet to the Infrastructure Conditions of Contract (ICC) has been published, which clarifies the payment provisions of the Measurement Version, the Design and Construct Version, the Term Version, the Ground Investigation Version, the Minor Works Version and the Target Cost Version.
