The American Law Institute (ALI) and the American Bar Association (ABA) are co-hosting the 22nd annual "Fundamentals of International Business Transactions" on 5/8-5/10/2008 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada at the
Four Seasons Hotel Toronto. You can attend the program, which sounds like a crash course in IBT, both live or via webcast.
Topics to be covered [...]

Great article in Ad Age about corporate blogging:
To blog or not to blog?
It's a question marketers are still grappling with years after the first waves of corporate blogging flooded the web. But for better or worse, it seems corporate blogging — and the title of chief blogger — is beginning to hit its stride. Companies [...]

"Hey! Take your hands off Tibet!" the international chorus is crying out, "But not from Chechnya! Not from the Basque homeland! And certainly not from Palestine!" And that is not a joke.

I didn't want to get sucked into this issue, but the media criticism, the protests and demonstrations, and the government denunciations of the past [...]

Fanling Magistracy has jailed a 30-year-old jobless man one year for making a false corruption report against two Police officers.

A delegation of 10 Immigration officers will leave on an 11-day study visit to Beijing, Changchun and Heifei on April 9, enhancing co-operation with the relevant Mainland authorities.

Very interesting editorial that ran in a Pennsylvania paper recently. I frequently talk about protectionists and critics of globalization. Here is the argument from the local level and a glimpse into the thinking behind protectionist sentiment. The backdrop, of course, is the upcoming Democratic Primary in Pennsylvania.
A big red boot with a prominent yellow star [...]

My last post questioned why the U.S.-China "hotline" was such a big deal in this day and age. This perhaps sheds some light on why any accomplishment of the government should be applauded, given all the important stuff they have to do these days:
The U.S. House of Representatives overwhelmingly passed a resolution Wednesday calling on [...]

Defense Secretary Robert Gates and his counterpart in Beijing on Thursday tested for the first time a "hot line" designed for consultations in times of crisis.
The line is similar to one created decades ago between Washington and Moscow. The Pentagon initially proposed the Beijing hot line, but the Chinese balked until President Bush and President [...]