Details of the school drug testing trial scheme in Tai Po have been refined according to feedback from various sectors, Commissioner for Narcotics Sally Wong says.
2009-10-23
Priscilla Wong has been appointed chairman of the Appeal Board panel established under the Consumer Goods Safety Ordinance, the Commerce & Economic Development Bureau says.
2009-10-23
Yes, shocking as it is, Chang's column than ran in Forbes, which sort of debunks the Q3 GDP figures, is pretty good and makes sense.
Credit where credit is due.
Now it is clear that China will attain for 2009 at least the 8% target that Premier Wen Jiabao set in January. China's leadership is evidently [...]
2009-10-23
China’s bad behavior is posing a growing threat to the rest of the world economy. The only question now is what the world — and, in particular, the United States — will do about it. (New York Times)
Economist Paul Krugman devoted his latest column to a discussion about the RMB and the need [...]
2009-10-23
The Association of East Asian Nations (ASEAN) which includes Thailand, Indonesia, Philippines, Singapore, Malaysia, Brunei Darussalem, Cambodia, Myanmar, Lao PDR and Viet Nam will meet in Hua Hin, Thailand, from October 23 to 25.The ASEAN, ASEAN + 1 (A…
2009-10-23
Topix reports that Russia and China are trying to reach an agreement on copyright protection of the Kalashnikov, the world famous assault rifle. Read here. More about the most famous Kalashnikov the AK-47 here.
2009-10-23
"Die Chinesen sind da," ("The Chinese are there", in German) was the motto of the biggest book fair in the world: the Frankfurter Buchmesse (October 6-10, 2009). China was Guest of Honour and the Chinese book publishers did show themselves prominently:…
2009-10-23
Fiat sued Great Wall, because it alleges that the Great Wall Peri infringes the intellectal property rights of the FIAT Panda. After this Great Wall sued FIAT at the Shijiazhuang People's Court, based on "evidence" provided by FIAT to the court that th…
2009-10-23
The US-Asia Law Institute at NYU Law School recently sponsored a very good discussion of this case; here's the link to the videos.
2009-10-23
Who knows? This might be useful to someone, somewhere (perhaps in explaining why you can't give a gift, even though personally you'd really love to), so here it is, courtesy of the US Department of Commerce.