The China Human Rights Lawyers Concern Group has posted translations of commentaries by three PRC lawyers (Teng Biao, Li Heping, and Zhang Jiankang) on China's amended Lawyers Law. The document is here [PDF on this site | HTML on CHRLC…

The China Human Rights Lawyers Concern Group has posted translations of commentaries by three PRC lawyers (Teng Biao, Li Heping, and Zhang Jiankang) on China's amended Lawyers Law. The document is here [PDF on this site | HTML on CHRLC…

A Senior Police Constable has admitted accepting unauthorised loans totalling $50,000 from his loan-shark friend, and pleaded guilty to three counts of prescribed officer accepting an advantage.

Secretary for Security Ambrose Lee has expressed concern over the Police Force's suspected online data leak, and ordered all disciplined services to conduct a comprehensive review urgently to ensure information security.

This is an amazing story, and even though it is way outside the scope of this blog, I gotta say something.

Speaking in New Mexico on Memorial Day, Obama said a great-uncle had helped to liberate the Auschwitz death camp at the end of World War II. "I had a uncle who was one of the, […]

Nice IP enforcement article in Businessweek.

The People's Republic of China has long been a land of opportunity for copyright infringers. On Web sites such as Youku.com, unlicensed Western TV shows and Hollywood flicks are plentiful and free to all comers. But with the Olympics set to start in Beijing in August, Chinese officials vow […]

Noticed the following nugget today (h/t Shanghaiist):
Jet Li (李连杰) has stepped out to criticise the use of rankings to keep track of which corporations/celebrities have donated the most toward earthquake relief, saying charity should not be measured in purely monetary terms and that there are a lot of people donating RMB1 or RMB5 when that […]

This story was all over the Intertubes and Twitterverse today.
U.S. officials are trying to determine of Chinese agents copied the contents of a Commerce Department laptop computer during a visit to Beijing by Commerce Secretary Carlos M. Gutierrez.
The Associated Press said the government is concerned China may have tried to use the contents […]

Police have charged a 24-year-old man for the May 15 murder of a 21-year-old woman in Tai Po.

Hongkong Post has issued a warning about fake website www.kd-express.com operated by Kuaida Express/Hong Kong Qantas international courier service companies.

A 41-year-old man has been killed and a 39-year-old man injured in a Sha Tin crash in which two vans collided near Kam Shan Country Park.

Believing that Yahoo China has infringed his copyright by providing links to the photos he has taken for some stars, a professional photographer surnamed Wen has sued Yahoo China, asking the website company to pay RMB317,500 in compensation.
According to local media, Wen has taken 39 life photos for Chinese stars, including Zhang Ziyi, Fan Bingbing […]

Government Flying Service staff helped Mainland authorities rescue 78 earthquake victims in Sichuan between May 20 and 22, its Controller Michael Chan says, adding the team's next task is to provide assistance in quarantine work.

Here's an interesting article from the English-language on-line edition of Caijing on corruption and cronyism in Shanghai real estate deals (surprise, surprise). Here are the first few paragraphs:

A few hours after a message appeared on an Internet forum alleging relief tents destined for earthquake victims had been embezzled, millions of Internet users in China got outraged and prompted officials to investigate the scandal.
A netizen who named himself "Peaceful Heart" posted a message exposing embezzlement of relief tents on a local Internet […]

Law Professor Donald Clarke, of Chinese Law Prof Blog fame, has compiled an extremely helpful compilation of views on the pros and cons of Westerners' securing an advanced law degree, or LLM, from a Chinese law school. The compilation can be found here (h/t to China Esquire).

Saw this the other day via Tom's post (Dan […]

Yet another fun post by Pettis, this one on China's growth relative to other Asian countries. Pettis is looking primarily at data since 1949. China's phenomenal recent growth rates look a little different from a comparative perspective when you look, for example, at countries like Japan, S. Korea and Hong Kong, as opposed to Thailand, […]

Police have arrested six men and one woman aged 16 to 26 in connection with the murder of a 21-year-old woman in Tai Po on May 15.

Jat Sew-tong has been appointed Chairman of the Independent Police Complaints Council from June 1 for two years, the Security Bureau says today.

Here's something that's been bugging me for a long time; I'm finally writing about it because I came across instances of it three times in the last two days. What am I talking about? The practice of citing Chinese-language sources…

Here's something that's been bugging me for a long time; I'm finally writing about it because I came across instances of it three times in the last two days. What am I talking about? The practice of citing Chinese-language sources…