A 34-year-old truck driver has been arrested for dangerous driving after his vehicle knocked down and killed a wheelchair-bound man in Hung Hom today.

Police today charged a 25-year-old man for the murder of his 46-year-old mother in Tuen Mun.

Police are seeking a man aged about 50 in relation to the death of a 57-year-old woman in Lantau South.

You ever hit the "send" button prematurely and allow an email with embarrassing content to go out to the wrong person? That's the nearest analogy I can come up with for this tale of woe about an editor at the People.com.cn site, but even then it does not do this story justice.
The poor bastard put [...]

Been waiting for some guidance from the government on this issue for several years now, ever since Tencent was smacked around by the government regarding QQ Coin related practices. At the time (2003?), the banking regulators were freaking out, worrying that virtual currencies were acting too much like the RMB.
From JLM:
China's Ministry of Culture (MoC) [...]

Now this is great news (from China Briefing):
The local government is set to launch a program that will give foreign finance specialists incentives to work in Shanghai including lowered taxes, reports Shanghai Daily. The financial talent award is just one of the government’s policies aimed at turning Shanghai into an international financial and shipping hub [...]

China's Ministry of Culture and Ministry of Commerce have jointly focused on the management of virtual money for online games with a new regulation which states that virtual currency should not be used in trade of real goods and services.
According to the regulation, the enhanced management of online games focuses on four aspects: the issuers [...]

A Chinese firm's bid to buy the gas-guzzling Hummer car brand will be blocked on environmental grounds, according to Chinese state radio.
Sichuan Tengzhong Heavy Industrial Machinery emerged as the surprise buyer for the brand earlier this year.
But China National Radio said Hummer is at odds with the country's planning agency's attempts to decrease pollution from [...]

A man died after being struck by a bus in Tuen Mun early this morning.

As of last weekend, I am officially sick and tired of all the stories about the Green Dam web filter and the government's attempts to restrict access to porn sites. With the exception of a later post (probably tomorrow) on the merits of a WTO case in this area, I think I'm going to leave [...]