Here's an extended and well-informed post on the subject by Rebecca MacKinnon over at her RConversation blog.

Hong Kong has the potential to become a leading international dispute resolution centre and is working hard to realise it.

The Monetary Authority has issued an alert on fraudulent website www.bocnhkg.org which looks similar to the Bank of China (Hong Kong)'s official website.

Police are appealing for information on a body found floating off Central Pier No. 3.

Secretary for Justice Wong Yan Lung has begun his three-day Australia visit to strengthen ties and promote Hong Kong as an international legal services and dispute- resolution centre.

Secretary for Security Ambrose Lee will visit Seoul and Tokyo November 24 to December 1 to brief officials on Hong Kong's latest developments and exchange views on issues of common concern.

Chinese consumer Zhang Yongping sued China Mobile Beijing branch for erroneously charging him over CNY1,400 for international call fees and the Beijing Chaoyang People's Court announced the decision on November 26, 2008 and ordered the telcom company to return the over-charged CNY1,432.18 to Zhang.
Zhang reportedly went abroad for four months at the end of 2007. […]

From Dan at CLB:
Interesting article by James Hudson over at China Success Stories. Article is entitled, "Want Committed Employees? Learn to Trust Them." Its thesis is that if you want your Chinese employee to work hard for the company, like the company, and do what he or she can for the company, you, […]

Diageo finally won its case against Blueblood this week in Shanghai court. The unfair competition case was a fairly straightforward one, involving similar packaging, including color and style, misleading ads, and so forth. Diageo had earlier prevailed in what I believe was an administrative action, for which Blueblood paid a fine.
Nothing ground-breaking here, although the […]

Two chefs have been jailed three months by Eastern Magistracy for accepting bribes from a frozen food supplier as reward for placing orders with their restaurants.

A property agency director has been convicted by the District Court of conspiring with others to defraud a developer of commissions worth $460,000 in relation to the sale of flats at a Ho Man Tin residential estate.

Let’s assume that Senator Hillary Clinton becomes Secretary of State under the new Obama administration.  What will that mean to US-China relations?
It all depends on WHICH Hillary Clinton we see – because there are two.  
On the one hand, there is HC that views China as a competitor and a serial human rights violator.  As […]

Has anyone else noticed that on an average day, roughly 1.3 new Chinese MMORPGs (one suspects history-based games) are being rolled out?
Not sure how these are all being funded, although it does seem that any decent sized IT, advertising, or media/entertainment company is developing and/or operating their own game these days.
I realize that the pool […]

I recently discovered a good resource on Chinese bankruptcy law (in English) that is probably not well known: the web site of the International Insolvency Institute. They have a page full of papers by scholars such as Shi Jingxia and…

A 43-year-old minibus driver has been arrested for dangerous driving after his vehicle struck and killed en elderly man in Shau Kei Wan today.

From the China Digital Times, a profile …

A merchant has been convicted by the District Court for his role in a $260 million letters of credit fraud based on non-existent commercial transactions.

Thanksgiving is a happy time – where friends and family come together to celebrate their blessings of the past year.  That’s why I want you to look at two posts now – before the holiday starts.  The good news is that the bad news is becoming clearer.  Still bleak, but what do you expect from […]

I was interviewed on November 20 by Radio Australia regarding the recent riots in Longnan city in Gansu. The verbatim transcript of the interview is here.

The Coral QQ infringement case has ended and Chen Shoufu, developer of Coral QQ, was punished with three years in prison for copyright infringement.
According to details provided by news in Sohu.com, in October 2007 Chen was arrested and Tencent sued him for infringing the copyright of its instant messaging product QQ. Chen had developed a […]

The Commerce & Economic Development Bureau will hold three public discussion forums to gauge community views on the review of the Control of Obscene & Indecent Articles Ordinance.