There were 8,657 drug abusers reported in the first half of this year, up 3.6% on the same period last year. The number of drug abusers under 21 rose 22.4% to 2,064, according to the Central Registry of Drug Abuse.

Police have arrested a 49-year-old minibus driver for dangerous driving after a fatal accident in Cheung Sha Wan today.

Well, last week I posted "
sanlu + government help = no lawsuits?" where I discussed the policy of the Chinese government to offer help in lieu of allowing Sanlu and other entities to suffer through lawsuits, the lack of damages and use of civil litigation, and other such thoughts.  And of course, lawyers looked very [...]

There were 51,943 crime cases in the first eight months of the year, down 2.8% on the same period last year, with violent crime down 2.7% to 9,560.

About 6.71 million passengers will travel in and out of Hong Kong during the upcoming National Day Golden Week and Chung Yeung festive period, up 7% over last year's holiday, the Immigration Department says.

Secretary for Justice Wong Yan Lung opened the Third Asia Pacific Regional Conference of the Hague Conference on Private International Law today. The three-day conference is jointly organised by the Department of Justice and the Hague Conference on Private International Law.

Maxtv.cn, the only authorized online general agent of Ruyan, says it will sue the Chinese online auction website Taobao for illegally facilitating the sale of Ruyan's products.
According to reports from Sina.com, some dealers are selling Ruyan's products on e-commerce websites such as Taobao.com. Miao Nan, vice president of Ruyan, says that the Ruyan products sold [...]

Here's an interesting essay by He Weifan…

Starting tomorrow, we will be observing the National Day holiday, which confusingly lasts seven days.
Wait, let me back up. This deserves some explanation, and I know you care about things like this. A simple breakdown of the facts here should straighten you out:
Next Saturday and Sunday count as "holiday days" in most people's minds, even [...]

Been waiting on this one for a while now:
A Chinese farmer who claimed to have taken photos of a rare tiger was sentenced to two and a half years in prison on Saturday for faking the pictures, a court official and state media said.
Zhou Zhenglong was tried for fraud in Xunyang County People's Court in [...]