The Immigration Department is appealing to travellers to vote in its annual courtesy campaign November 19 to 25 at Hong Kong's 11 immigration control points.

A difficult thing for me, since labor law is not exactly my thing (i.e., I find it dull and tedious). Apparently this is not the case over at China Law Blog, where Dan Harris seems to have ingested a sufficient quantity of delicious Seattle coffee and is therefore able to counteract the usual soporific effects [...]

Police are looking for witnesses to two New Territories traffic accidents in which two women were killed.

There is something mesmerizing about watching the old Shanghai stock ticker, particularly when the numbers keep inching down to around 3.5%. Yikes, it's been a tough few days. (I'm sure after everyone gets a nice hot lunch in them, the market will close much higher today.)
But there is a silver lining in that black cloud. [...]

I was terribly bored reading yet another story about product quality problems coming out of a Chinese factory. My weekend had been going really well up to that point, although as an aside, I would like to point out that vodka and Aqua Dots are not a good mix. You might be sitting there happy, [...]

What causes social unrest in China? Institutional failure. That’s the message delivered by Yu Jianrong, Director of the Institute of Rural Development at Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, in a series of speeches in California in late October. His comments…

Last week I posted here about the hearings before the House Committee on Foreign Affairs regarding Yahoo's role in the prosecution of Shi Tao. Here are some more useful links: Jerry Yang's testimony (not much of substance) Michael Callahan's testimony…

Here's an interesting game-theoretical analysis of public protest in China. The author, Peter Lorentzen, argues that such protests do not necessarily indicate regime weakness; instead, they are tolerated (in some cases) because they can increase the government's effectiveness. Here's the…