Marine Police have arrested two men and seized $1.8 million worth of computer hard disks in Sai Kung.

Breast cancer rates are up big time in China, and after hearing what they attribute this to, I'm wondering what the equivalent will be for us guys:

An increasing taste for Western-style junk food and unhealthy lifestyles have caused the rate of breast cancer among urban Chinese women to jump sharply over [...]

No great surprise that I really enjoyed reading Adam Minter's piece in Asia Times (also on his Shanghai Scrap blog) about piracy and pricing of Western theatricals in China. I have written and talked about this topic ad nauseum and will most likely bring it up again next week in the IP law class I [...]

Great stuff from the FT yesterday. One of the more interesting aspects of the Chinese monetary system until now has been the way in which the PBOC has benefited from its large Forex reserves. Before we get to that, there are two important things to note.

First – sterilization. When dollars [...]

The Public Interest Law Institute (PILI) is seeking to fill the new position of Country Director, China. Leading candidates will be lawyers with demonstrated expertise and interest in legal reform and public interest law in China, as well as strong…

On October 28, 2007, the standing committee of the National People’s Congress amended the Law on Lawyers, according to a Xinhua article of the same date. The law marginally changes the rules governing the legal profession in China. It also…