Thursday, February 18, 2016

Access to Information (信息公开)

China to ban foreign companies from online media business
Radio Free Asia, February 17, 2016
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/china/china-to-ban-foreign-companies-from-online-media-business-02172016113408.html

Free speech in China gets an unlikely state-media backer
The Wall Street Journal, February 17, 2016
http://blogs.wsj.com/chinarealtime/2016/02/17/free-speech-in-china-gets-an-unlikely-state-media-backer/

全国96%以上法院开通举报网站, 去年法院受理网络举报37967件 (Over 96% of courts nationwide have opened websites for reporting complaints, with 37,967 complaints received online last year)
Legal Daily, February 17, 2016
http://epaper.legaldaily.com.cn/fzrb/content/20160217/Articel01007GN.htm

河南法院去年收案106万件 (Henan's courts accepted 1.06 million cases last year)
Legal Daily, February 17, 2016
http://epaper.legaldaily.com.cn/fzrb/content/20160217/Articel03003GN.htm