This is sorta creepy, but I guess I agree with the spirit of the policy:

China's Ministry of Health said Monday it is strictly enforcing a new rule that bars foreigners on a tourist visa from receiving organ transplants from local donors.
The rule, issued in July as part of efforts to better manage a severely [...]

Customs and Police officers have seized 144,000 computer hard disks, worth $4 million, and arrested a 26-year-old driver at Sai Wan Tsui in Sai Kung.

Customs officers seized 23,000 litres of unmanifested marked oil, worth about $115,000, last night.

The Wall Street Journal online has this feature article on Intellectual Ventures, a firm from Washington State that operates as a sort of patent VC fund:

[Intellectual Ventures] hopes to raise as much as $1 billion to help develop and patent inventions, many of them from universities in Asia.
The move could help the firm, formed seven [...]

The owner of the café has just come over with my diet coke. I restrain myself from complaining about the music – it’s just a touch too loud, but that’s one of the crosses we expats have to bear in Shanghai these days. Standards are rising steadily, but expectations are moving into warp [...]

A new site devoted to Expat Financial Planning in China. Who said we don't know how to party at DC?
ChinaFinancialPlanning.com
http://www.chinafinancialplanning.com

I missed this precious item a couple weeks ago:

Germany plans to introduce a law preventing takeovers of strategic industries, in a move directed against sovereign wealth funds orginating in countries such as Abu Dhabi, Saudi Arabia and China. The law also targets hedge funds and state holdings from non-EU countries, such as Russia's Gazprom. <LINK>

Cool. Following on the heels of [...]

News from Beijing Municipal City Management Bureau is that by October this year a total of about 66549 telephone numbers had been suspended because of disseminating illegal advertisements.