Police have charged a 24-year-old man of Pakistani origin with three counts of murder. He was arrested over the deaths of three prostitutes in Yuen Long and Tai Po on March 15 and 17.

Customs officers have charged a Malaysian woman for trafficking 1.5kgs of cocaine worth $1.2 million.

Ha! Confirmation at last, from Technology Review:

To prevent rain over the roofless 91,000-seat Olympic stadium that Beijing natives have nicknamed the Bird's Nest, the city's branch of the national Weather Modification Office–itself a department of the larger China Meteorological Association–has prepared a three-stage program for the 2008 Olympics this August.
First, Beijing's Weather Modification Office […]

Police are appealing for information on an Ngau Tau Kok traffic accident on March 19 in which an 82-year-old man died.

Mohan Bharwaney, Robert Lee, Charlotte Draycott, Anthony Houghton and Godfrey Lam have been appointed Senior Counsel from April 26.

From the Wall Street Journal:
In a move that has alarmed the toy industry, lawmakers in the state of Washington have overwhelmingly passed a bill that would set the toughest restrictions in the nation on the lead content of children's products.
I'm about to complain, but before I do so, let me preface my complaints. I am […]

Sometimes, just when you think a lawsuit is over, you get dragged back in:
Jeboo.com, one of the biggest Chinese online theatre Websites, has
filed a suit against five major US movie companies as well as the
Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA). Jeboo.com said the
defendants' announcement on March 6 breached its honor and claimed a
total of one […]

You know the press is out to get you when everything seems to be your fault:
Southern China may have been the source for much of the spread of the H5N1 avian flu virus.
This was from Reuters last week. Perhaps next week we'll learn that the Chinese government secretly engineered the collapse of the U.S. financial […]

China's Ministry of Commerce, State Office of Intellectual Property Protection and National Office of Rectification and Standardization of Market Economic Order have jointly released the China IPR Protection Plan 2008.