Police are appealing for information on an April 19 Sheung Shui traffic accident in which a 68-year-old woman was injured and later died in hospital.

A 41-year-old woman was killed in a Tsuen Wan alley last night.

Additional provisions imposing civil and criminal liabilities on people who deal in circumvention devices or provide a circumvention service for commercial purpose have come into effect, the Intellectual Property Department says.

The District Court has sentenced 37-year-old Hong Kong man and two Mainland women, aged 28 and 36, to prison terms ranging from two years to two years and eight months, for credit-card fraud.

Human Rights Watch has just published a report on lawyers in China. Here are two ways of getting it: HRW web site | download from this site.

The report is available here.

The District Court today convicted the former chairman, chairman and three other senior executives of Tse Sui Luen Jewellery Company Limited of conspiracies to offer $170 million in illegal commissions to travel-agency employees, embezzlement and tax fraud.

Secretary for Security Ambrose Lee has appealed to people wanting to demonstrate during the Olympic Torch Relay to exercise restraint and not hinder the tens of thousands of spectators expected to welcome the runners.

Hong Kong, Guangdong and Macau police have held the 14th three-way meeting to exchange views on combating cross-boundary crime and share intelligence on the Olympic Torch Relay.

The world's prosecutors should band together to curb the globalisation of crime, Director of Public Prosecutions Grenville Cross says, adding specialisation in sophisticated crime is essential for successful prosecution.

Right before the World Intellectual Property Rights Day on April 26, 2008, the Shenzhen Procuratorial Department published details of a software piracy case jointly uncovered by police from China and the United States.
In early 2007, the Federal Bureau of Investigation in the United States sent an advisory to China's Ministry of Public Security in which […]

An Internet copyright work commission has been formally unveiled in Shanghai.
So far, more than 20 backbone online video service providers in Shanghai have submitted applications for joining the commission, which serves as a branch of the Shanghai Copyright Protection Association.
According to a representative from SCPA, the Internet copyright work commission will set to solving copyright […]

The District Court has convicted former Deputy Privacy Commissioner for Personal Data Anthony Lam for using false documents to swindle $120,000 in allowances.

J. Clifford Wallace, Senior Judge of the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, will speak and lead a discussion on judicial reform in China at Jones Day's New York office on May 13. More information here.

The Sha Tin Magistrates' Court has sentenced a local resident to six months in jail after he was convicted of conspiracy to defraud the Immigration Department.

A two-year pilot collaboration scheme will be launched in June to provide early intervention for 300 to 400 young drug abusers aged 10 to 24, Principal Assistant Secretary for Security David Wong says.

The control of tuberculosis, AIDS, and other infectious diseases in prisons is satisfactory and compares favourably with many developed places in the world, Centre for Health Protection Controller Dr Thomas Tsang says.

Police are investigating a Tuen Mun traffic accident in which a 71-year-old woman was killed.

Customs officers have cracked five piracy cases at the Hong Kong Electronics Fair – Spring Edition, seizing seven copyright-infringing products and arresting four men and a woman aged 24 to 45.

The State Administration of Radio Film and Television of China has issued a circular which asks that the management on the testing of Digital Audio Broadcasting be strengthened.
In the circular called the Notice on Strengthening on the Management of DAB, SARFT says that DAB tests have only been approved to be carried out in a […]

Europe Votes Democrat, but Asia Tends Republican
That's the headline from the fastest-growing part of the world where, as throughout a shrinking globe, the U.S. election is arousing passionate interest. Many a Shanghai dumpling gets slurped to the accompaniment of chat about superdelegates.
A bit of an exaggeration, methinks, by the NYT's Roger Cohen, but it's a […]