Police are investigating the death of a 32-year-old woman in Kwai Chung.

Hey, if this is true, can I start getting free bags at Walmart again? (From Wired, of course.)
Plastic takes thousands of years to decompose — but 16-year-old science fair contestant Daniel Burd made it happen in just three months.
The Waterloo, Ontario high school junior figured that something must make plastic degrade, even if it does […]

Sonofabitch. We are all going to hell, or at least some of us in Asia. From the FT:

In what might prove to be Japan's most inspired step on the road to better relations with China, Tokyo has appointed its most famous feline, Hello Kitty, 33, as its goodwill tourism ambassador to China and Hong Kong. […]