Police issued 200 fixed-penalty tickets and 176 summonses for traffic-related violations during a crackdown in Kowloon East yesterday.

Police are investigating a traffic accident in Ta Kwu Ling in which a 74-year-old man died after being hit by a truck.

Yes, this post is self-serving to a certain extent. I get involved in due diligence from time to time, and certainly the firm I work for does a lot of these investigations.
Regardless, since I have been thinking and talking about risk a lot recently, the latest big story from Wall Street, whereby a hedge fund […]

Fallows with a useful reminder:
Yesterday I mentioned a summary of the latest John Boyd conference, which included the argument that today's lean, hyper-efficient, "just in time" economy was magnifying the effects of today's economic collapse. Problems in one sector instantly become problems in another, since so many businesses were fine-tuned to await the next order, […]

Fear not, international trade watchers. Incremental increases in trade barriers are a thing of the past.
We are now entering the age of galloping global protectionism. Start the tariff increases, non-tariff barriers, in-your-face protectionism, and the WTO lawsuits that will follow. As I mentioned the other day, trade issues may not be on the minds of […]

Very cool article on Chinese language writing and the effects of technology. Not a new subject, but the article is good and worth reading. H/T to the WSJ Blog.
I would be remiss if I failed to point out that the main gist of the article, that technology may be eroding the ability of native speakers […]

Police are offering a $100,000 reward for information on the December 13 acid attack in Mong Kok.

According to the decision announced by the Intermediate People's Court of Hangzhou, the Korean electronics maker Samsung has been ordered to pay CNY50 million compensation to the Zhejiang-based Holley Communications for infringing the patent of Holley's GSM/CDMA dual-mode handsets.
This he patent infringement case decision is the largest-ever compensation amount in China's mobile phone industry.
Holley Communications […]