The Monetary Authority warns of a fake website with the domain name www.bochkvip.com .

Andy Scott at the China Briefing blog wrote a very nice post on an award given to Brian Lamb, the creative force behind C-Span, a ground-breaking U.S. public affairs television station in the U.S. that shows live feeds of the government in action, among other things.
Andy included a photo of Lamb getting the award along [...]

There is a paper circulating around today by Aaron Schwabach of the Thomas Jefferson School of Law. I was tipped off this morning by a friend at a local university, who heard about it from Randy Peerenboom, who I think posted something on a BBS. Tim Johnson has also read and commented on the paper [...]

Yes, it was Rudy Giuliani, at a speech at Iowa State University. To his credit, Giuliani was not focused on toxic toys, but talked "big picture" issues. Part of it sounds OK:

We should remain substantially engaged with China.

Not sure what the qualifier "substantially" refers to. Maybe he did not want to appear to be one [...]

Commissioner on Interception of Communications & Surveillance Justice Woo Kwok-hing says he is satisfied with the overall compliance with the requirements of the Interception of Communications & Surveillance Ordinance by law enforcement agencies.

Police are seeking the relatives of a baby boy found abandoned on the staircase of a residential building on Sha Tsui Road, Tsuen Wan, about 4.50pm October 29.

I refer of course to Christopher Hitchens' book God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything – his thesis is rather self-explanatory.
Good example for the second edition of the book: the phony Olympics bible scandal. I first noticed this yesterday in a reference to a press release of the Catholic News Agency, which reported that [...]

Following hot on the heels of my post yesterday about Microsoft's new efforts to get legal copies of Windows installed on Founder PCs, here is another story of Hollywood studios selling affordable movies in China.

Warner Bros. was the first to do this, followed by Fox, and now Paramount is joining the [...]

From the Shanghai Daily:

Chinese tourists are expected to gain access to the United States soon as the two countries are likely to reach an agreement to grant the US Authorized Destination Status by the end of this year.

I see. After going through years of mindless hassles with the INS, after dealing with a K-1 visa, [...]