Okay, I am about to post another potential fire starter.  Everyone has heard about China's human rights record.  You'd have to be deaf and blind to not hear it in the west, or probably in China as well.  CNN recently did an article about Amnesty International's annual report, and some of the results are predictable:
Irene [...]

The China Human Rights Lawyers Concern Group has posted translations of commentaries by three PRC lawyers (Teng Biao, Li Heping, and Zhang Jiankang) on China's amended Lawyers Law. The document is here [PDF on this site | HTML on CHRLC…

The China Human Rights Lawyers Concern Group has posted translations of commentaries by three PRC lawyers (Teng Biao, Li Heping, and Zhang Jiankang) on China's amended Lawyers Law. The document is here [PDF on this site | HTML on CHRLC…

A Senior Police Constable has admitted accepting unauthorised loans totalling $50,000 from his loan-shark friend, and pleaded guilty to three counts of prescribed officer accepting an advantage.

Just wanted to post this quickly from the New York Lawyer.  I recently had a post that linked Donald Clarke's PDF resource on the usefulness (or lack thereof) of having a Chinese LLM.  Well, yesterday, the NY Lawyer published this
article saying that foreign firms want staff their firms by having foreign attorneys with U.S. [...]

Secretary for Security Ambrose Lee has expressed concern over the Police Force's suspected online data leak, and ordered all disciplined services to conduct a comprehensive review urgently to ensure information security.

This is an amazing story, and even though it is way outside the scope of this blog, I gotta say something.

Speaking in New Mexico on Memorial Day, Obama said a great-uncle had helped to liberate the Auschwitz death camp at the end of World War II. "I had a uncle who was one of the, [...]

Nice IP enforcement article in Businessweek.

The People's Republic of China has long been a land of opportunity for copyright infringers. On Web sites such as Youku.com, unlicensed Western TV shows and Hollywood flicks are plentiful and free to all comers. But with the Olympics set to start in Beijing in August, Chinese officials vow [...]

Noticed the following nugget today (h/t Shanghaiist):
Jet Li (李连杰) has stepped out to criticise the use of rankings to keep track of which corporations/celebrities have donated the most toward earthquake relief, saying charity should not be measured in purely monetary terms and that there are a lot of people donating RMB1 or RMB5 when that [...]

This story was all over the Intertubes and Twitterverse today.
U.S. officials are trying to determine of Chinese agents copied the contents of a Commerce Department laptop computer during a visit to Beijing by Commerce Secretary Carlos M. Gutierrez.
The Associated Press said the government is concerned China may have tried to use the contents [...]