Former Tsuen Wan District Councillor Wu Ki-fook has admitted making $93,000 in false expenses claims.

A road safety campaign highlighting drink driving will be held March 21 to 24.

Not a great deal of interesting news out there today. The China-related articles are fixated on one story (guess which one), and the Easter holiday has contributed to a general slowdown of news.
One nice exception that I can point to is a China Vortex and CLB discussion about use of lawyers by PRC companies. Good […]

Ah, the age-old dilemma. Every central banker worries about it, every student of Econ 101 learns about it, and Wen Jiabao is commenting on it. And so is Michael Pettis:

That is the nub of the policy dilemma. One of the consequences of China’s expansionary monetary regime has been fairly rapid employment growth, but not enough […]

Here's a remarkable article about one CP…

James Fallows gets credit for actually making the recent "elections" here interesting. Well, maybe not so interesting, but he does come up with a decent joke:

Essay question: In what basic way did these NPC elections resemble the Democrats' presidential primary in Michigan two months ago, and what does this suggest about the way globalization is […]

Here's a cool Chinese-language blog of w…

High wind and warm(er) temperatures in Beijing this morning. Must mean that Spring has finally arrived.
While the sunny skies always make one's outlook that much more positive, I have to say that this kind of thing is really not helping. Not to mention this.