Features & Analyses

New measures tighten the administration of investment into the insurance sector, but now foreign participants can expect equal treatment with domestics on shareholding ratio requirements. And for the first time, the new rules address horizontal competition

A milestone agreement between Taiwan and mainland China will buoy Taiwan exports as customs duties are wiped out for over 500 products and services covered in a special “early harvest” list. But more than just saving on tariffs, the pact offers a greater profile for Taiwan as a launch pad for investors wishing to enter the Chinese market

Companies in Taiwan are advised to re-visit their personal data collection policies to ensure compliance with the new Personal Data Protection Act. The new law is very detailed and provides a boost to the protection of privacy and personality rights

Beijing-based Bin Zhou, vice president and general counsel at Sony China, speaks with CLP about his company's experiences with the anti-monopoly law (AML)

A brief look at regulations that shaped Taiwan's investment landscape over the past year

Taiwan banks have entered a new era with the amended cross-strait banking rules allowing them to set up branches in China and directly make equity investments in Chinese banks. Future prospects appear even brighter since the signing of the ECFA, as further relaxations of cross-strait restriction are expected by the Taiwanese banking community

China has been making a very conspicuous push towards implementing greener policies that will affect manufacturing industries. Here, three specialists provide insight and advice into what regulations to pay particular attention to, and how foreign companies can remain compliant and possibly beneft from these new environmentally-friendly policies.

China's antitrust regulators recently released new draft regulations that address, among other key clarifications, the enforcement of prohibitions in the anti-monopoly law. However, one notable area the draft omits is how the competition rules will treat intellectual property

With new measures allowing overseas private equity players to adopt a new structure for its Rmb funds, authorities have yet to concretely define certain terms of a partnership in order to set a conclusive tax rate