Police today urged the victim of an act of criminal intimidation in Mong Kok to come forward.

Not only is China on the hook for a significant amount of increases in global pollution levels these days, but now we find out that this sort of irresponsible behavior is nothing new.
A mass extinction some 260 million years ago may have been caused by volcanic eruptions in what is now China, new research suggests.
The [...]

Imagine that you are the leader of the largest country in the world. What is your biggest day-to-day problem? Your own underlings. How can you be sure that they do what you want? How can you guarantee that they don’t…

I hope everyone out there is enjoying the Duan Wu/Dragon Boat Festival. The actual holiday was yesterday, and the official holiday runs from yesterday through Saturday, with many people coming back to work on Sunday. Yes, this is another one of those utterly bizarre things that is claimed to be a three-day holiday but is [...]

The New York Lawyer had an
article yesterday entitled "
Chinese Lawyers Could Be Disbarred for Taking Human Rights Cases".  It should come as no surprise to most readers that stuff like this happens in China.  I wasn't all that surprised.  The only interesting twist?  Its the judiciary in China that is threatening to disbar attorneys [...]

Before anyone gets too excited by that post title, don't expect the following to be some sort of statistical analysis or in-depth treatment of criminal sentencing in China. Unless someone wants to give me a grant to study that stuff, I'll keep my comments within the realm of light commentary.
This is the second post I've [...]

Keith Bradsher, auto industry guru in HK for the New York Times, gives us the good news:
Worried about heavy reliance on imported oil, Chinese officials have drafted automotive fuel economy standards that are even more stringent than those outlined by President Obama last week, Chinese experts with a detailed knowledge of the plans [...]

Three people have been convicted by the District Court of conspiracy to defraud over certificates of origin for exporting garments.

This blog primarily concerns news of the day, or if I'm busy or hungover the news of the week. It is not focused on business advice — I'm not very comfortable telling people how to use chopsticks properly, whether they should eat duck's brain, or how many toasts of baijiu one needs to keep down [...]

The Shanghai Daily reports that the Shenyang Intermediate Court began hearings on May 25th in the case of Wang Fengyou, the former president of Liaoning Yilishen Tianxi Group, and 54 other suspects who face various criminal charges in connection with…