The Institute for International Research at the Hopkins-Nanjing Center (HNC) is a joint research initiative of Johns Hopkins University and Nanjing University and located in Nanjing, China. This competition is open to professors, associate professors and assistant professors, as well…

Alternative title: You Know You're in Trouble When the . . .

JV partners haven't spoken to each other for 7 years.
CFO is the wife of the local partner.
Foreign investor has never visited the JV and forgot what city it's in.
Local [...]

Police are appealing for information about a Lok Ma Chau traffic accident last Thursday in which a 36-year-old man was seriously injured.

A 70-year-old taxi driver was killed and three men injured in a traffic accident in Lok Ma Chau.

From the AP:

News Corp. Chairman Rupert Murdoch said Tuesday he intends to make access to The Wall Street Journal's Web site free, dropping subscription fees in exchange for anticipated ad revenue.

First the New York Times, now the Wall Street Journal. Are you listening, South China Morning Post?

If you're into political economy, check out this article on VOX about free trade. Turns out, not surprisingly, that a lot of people are inherently protectionist. This is partially a result of open economies and the insecurity that follows.
In order to counteract this tendency, governments need to expend resources on things like unemployment insurance, job [...]

Cool post on an interestingly-titled blog, Dr Shock MD, on reasons that foreign pharmaceutical companies are in China:

Relative ease of recruiting patients with diseases under investigation
Substantially lower costs
A strong medical infrastructure
The cost for a researcher in China is as little [...]