Two auto industry posts in one day, a new record for China Hearsay. What's the problem with this possible acquisition? Pretty much just a competition issue, with Ford not wanting to include certain kinds of trade secret information in the sale of Volvo to Geely.
Geely Holding's attempt to buy Ford Motor Co's Volvo car [...]

China's Great Wall Motors Co Ltd is suing Italian car maker Fiat for allegedly stealing its business secrets.
The case appears to be the second round in a battle that began when Fiat accused Great Wall of copying one of its cars in 2007.
In the latest barrage, Great Wall Motor, a Chinese sport utility vehicle maker [...]

Customs officers have arrested a 46-year-old woman for trafficking 1.8kg of heroin, worth $1.5 million, at the airport.

Police have shut down a cocaine distribution centre in Wan Chai, arresting a man and seizing more than 900g of the drug worth $1.2 million.

The time that the Russians were the only bad guys in James Bond movies or John le Carré books is over. Jaikumar Vijayan has written an interesting article for Computerworld called 'Trial set to begin in economic espionage case involving China'. The su…

Keith Naughton and Cathy Chan wrote about the effort of Geely to buy Volvo of Ford jeopardized because of intellectual property rights related challenges, read the Reuters article here.The struggle about IPRs comes in the wake of "the FBI’s Oct. 14 a…