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back to Panda Punchers, my opportunity to post my favorite inane China bashing
quotes of the week. With the Olympics and a U.S. presidential election coming
in 2008, and in the face of financial turmoil, expect the rhetoric to reach the
heights of idiocy. Enjoy, and feel free to send me your personal favorite
quotes from batshit reactionaries.
1. McAfee [...]

Secretary for Security Ambrose Lee has called for calm, restrained and respectful electioneering activities in the run-up to the December 2 Legislative Council by-election, saying Police will not tolerate violence or unruly behaviour.

Hong Kong's overall crime rate in the first 10 months fell 0.6% over a year earlier, Secretary for Security Ambrose Lee says, adding the city's crime situation is stable.

The Monetary Authority warns consumers to beware of suspicious website www.ifce-in-hk-macao.com .

Two men and three women aged 29 to 56 have been arrested after Customs officers raided a Fanling food distribution company and four grocery shops, seizing 620 jars of counterfeit preserved dried cabbage worth $5,000.

A lot of people these days are looking very carefully at where local Chinese funds are investing. Yesterday I wrote about CIC, China's sovereign fund, and what sort of opportunities it was focusing on. The big news there was that CIC did not expect to be making any significant overseas equity purchases.
This blog post, commenting [...]

This story about World of Warcraft gaming habits surprised me:

UC Irvine anthropologist and informatics professor Bonnie Nardi and her graduate student, Silvia Lindtner, spent time earlier this year studying gamers in Beijing playing WoW in Internet Cafes.

I think it's sort of cool to look at gaming in different countries, but as an academic exercise? [...]

The Correctional Services Department is searching for a Tai Lam Correctional Institution male prisoner, who went found missing last evening.

Police arrested 55 drivers and summonsed or ticketed 5,565 people in a city-wide crackdown on illegal motor racing November 9 to 24.