The Legal Intelligencer reported that Reed Smith, the large Philadelphia based international firm, opened shop in Beijing by taking away the office from New York's Dewey & LeBoeuf, another international firm. After the merger of Dewey Ballantine and LeBoeuf, it appeared that the firm had two separate offices in Beijing. Reed Smith picked [...]

For the last few years, Knut Benjamin Pissler of the Max Planck Institute for Foreign Private Law and Private International Law in Hamburg has compiled an annual bibliography of Western-language works on Chinese law. These bibliographies have been published in…

For the last few years, Knut Benjamin Pissler of the Max Planck Institute for Foreign Private Law and Private International Law in Hamburg has compiled an annual bibliography of Western-language works on Chinese law. These bibliographies have been published in…

The English text can be found here; the Chinese text is here. UPDATE: The English text posted by the Chinese government requires you to do to 21 separate web pages to view the whole thing. Here are downloadable texts in…

Here's an interesting e-mail interview with Prof. Ben Read of the Department of Political Science, Univ. of Iowa, on homeowners' protests in Shanghai against the maglev train extension and related topics.

The stringent assessment criteria for Quality Migrant Admission Scheme applicants remains in place – despite revisions in scheme details that allow Hong Kong to cast a wider net in its search for quality migrants, Assistant Director of Immigration Helen Chan says.

A 74-year-old man has died after he was hit by a van in Kwun Tong.

Police have arrested a 75-year-old resident of a Wan Chai elderly home in connection with the death of a 78-year-old woman who also lived there.

A 76-year-old man has died after he was hit by a van in Tai Po this morning.