Customs officers have arrested a driver after seizing 225 cartons of smuggled goods worth $3.29 million from an arriving lorry at Man Kam To Control Point.

And the rhetoric from Mr. Mandelson continues to target China. It started with currency issues, now we've got the alleged subsidies. Following in the footsteps of the Bush Administration (from the FT):

Europe is to reinforce its tougher line against China by following the US in slapping tariffs on Chinese products that benefit from alleged subsidies.
In [...]

Police are appealing for information on a Sham Shui Po traffic accident in which a 71-year-old woman was killed.

Getting tired of all my recent posts on gaming issues? Too bad, this stuff is cool.
The new Beowulf movie is getting folks talking (again) about the anticipated convergence of movies and computer games (great Wired article on this). This has been a hot topic for some time, at least since Pixar started making theatricals. When [...]

The two U.S. car sharing companies, Flexcar and Zipcar, are merging. I wonder if this would ever work here:

Car sharing, however, offers a new and seductive form of freedom, one based on the refusal of direct ownership and the liability that entails. The key to the Zip-Flex business model is that the actual car is [...]

From the Shanghai Daily:

The dispute between Wahaha Group and France's Groupe Danone escalated as assets of 10 foreign-registered companies under Wahaha were frozen at the request of Danone.

This follows similar action in Samoa and BVI. Danone's litigators are an aggressive bunch, aren't they? Well organized, too.

For all my old clients that [...]

Star Image Media, one of the largest movie and TV content providers in China, has filed a lawsuit against Shanghai Media Group, Baishitong Network Television Technology Development Company and Hangzhou Shentong Investment Company, accusing them all of infringing Star Image's copyrights.