Energy was in the headlines this week as the draft of China's first energy law continued its slow progress through government. The law was supposed to be finalized by the end of last year and it can’t come soon enough.The lack of progress mirrors the lack of progress China has made on a disparate raft of new energy regulations and targets introduce...

Although most likely just a coincidence, it had to raise a few eyebrows when on the same day a local Chinese newspaper reported Mozilla’s interest in gaining a 20% market share in China’s browser market, the nytimes runs a piece about Mozilla’s independence or lack of independence on Google; in response to a question about where funding mi...

Who says inflation can’t kill? As Jamil Anderlini writes in the Financial Times, three people were killed and 31 injured in a stampede at a Carrefour supermarket in the western Chinese city of Chongqing over the weekend as shoppers slugged it out over five-litre bottles of rapeseed oil going at a 20% discount.The promotion came after wholesale vegetabl...