REFORM AND JOBS

The business community has embraced the idea of health-care reform, hoping that Washington will come up with a method for reining in runaway medical costs. But Congress has spent most of its time so far focusing on ways to cover the 47 million uninsured. All those ways call on businesses to finance expanded access through a "pay-or-play" mandate. That is, employers must either offer health benefits or pay a fine.
Pay-or-play isn't sitting well with the business community, even though 99% of companies with 200 or ...

The American and European chambers of commerce in China have welcomed a decision by Beijing to delay an order that new computers sold in the country be equipped with an Internet filtering programme. The filter, called Green Dam Youth Escort, was to have been required from Wednesday, but the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology said computer makers needed more time, state media reported Tuesday. Beijing says the software is designed to shield children within the world's largest online population from pornography, but trade and rights groups are concerned ...

The American and European chambers of commerce in China have welcomed a decision by Beijing to delay an order that new computers sold in the country be equipped with an Internet filtering programme. The filter, called Green Dam Youth Escort, was to have been required from Wednesday, but the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology said computer makers needed more time, state media reported Tuesday. Beijing says the software is designed to shield children within the world's largest online population from pornography, but trade and rights groups are concerned ...