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 […]