More on the stock market. Here's one of those "The bubble is bursting" articles from the New York Times, complete with the obligatory interviews with people who have lost their life savings after making poor investment decisions.
At least I haven't read anything stupid like "No one predicted this collapse." Even though everyone knew this was [...]

Interesting article in Shanghai Daily on local investors – who they are, how they approach stocks, etc. Also scared the crap out of me in a way, but I shouldn't be surprised. All you have to do is look at Hong Kong and understand that what goes on here is even worse with respect to [...]

Seven Chinese ministries, including the State Administration for Industry and Commerce and the Ministry of Commerce, have jointly issued a circular on strengthening the online transaction of goods banned by the government.

Seven Chinese ministries, including the State Administration for Industry and Commerce and the Ministry of Commerce, have jointly issued a circular on strengthening the online transaction of goods banned by the government.

Practising Law Institute (
PLI) is hosting a conference called "
Doing Business in China 2008" on 6/18 in San Francisco and via webcast. (there is also a 6/17
program in New York with a different faculty). It's an all day affair, 9am – 5:15pm held at PLI's conference center at 685 Market Street, San [...]

I wrote yesterday about how some of the low end foreign-invested factories, the ones with razor-thin margins, have been closing up their China shops and moving elsewhere.
A nice follow-on piece to that, which was a commentary on an article in Asia Times, is this from Wired. Not an exhaustively researched article or anything, but it [...]

I've been relatively silent, for the most part, when it comes to the U.S. presidential election. None of the three remaining candidates excite me all that much, and the statements each of them has made on foreign policy issues make me rather nervous – some of McCain's more belligerent comments are downright scary.
There have [...]

Marine Police have seized computer hard-disks worth $600,000 in an anti-smuggling operation in Tai Po.