The Driving-offence Points System and relevant laws will be reviewed immediately to identify upgrades, the Transport & Housing Bureau says. Remedial measures will be tabled in the new Legislative Council session.

By mid-June, about 32,800 couples had given their marriage notice through civil celebrants and 32,700 couples had their marriage celebrated by civil celebrants.

I will be on vacation for the next 3 weeks, and so want to apologize in advance for not posting.  Plenty of other good blogs on my blogroll to keep you up to date with China law and business — there are many quality China law blogs and China business blogs to choose from.  I […]

Just for the record:
The United States and China agreed to launch negotiations of a bilateral investment treaty (BIT) today [a couple weeks ago] during the fourth meeting of the United States-China Strategic Economic Dialogue.
In negotiating the BIT, the United States would seek to secure for U.S. companies important legal protections, including the right to:
• non-discriminatory […]

U.S. citizens, if this tidbit from China Briefing doesn't scare you, then you have my respect and admiration:

The U.S. Internal Revenue Service is opening an office and place an attaché within the U.S. Embassy in Beijing.
The office, which will open "by the end of the 2008 fiscal tax year" according to Barry Shott, the deputy […]

Police are investigating a Sha Tin traffic accident in which a 56-year-old man died after being hit by a van.

This is old news that was stuck in my drafts folder when my PC committed suicide – no reason to waste a serviceable post.
Felt slightly ill when I saw this:

Beijing on Tuesday started handing out buttons reading "to-be mum" to pregnant women in hope they would be protected in public places.
The move was initiated […]

Several days since posting. See if you can figure out why:
 
1. Weather too hot
2. Office too cold
3. Too much work
4. Too much pollution/too little oxygen
5. Bricked PC

6. Boring news
7. Olympics fatigue
8. All energy devoted to office politics
9. Ridiculously slow Net speed at home

10. My mind ain't right.
Give up? A combination of #5 and #9. My PC at work […]