Civil servant health care reform sounds like a good idea, but let's not use the opportunity to cut their benefits.

The Customs & Excise Department will enhance patrols at shops and deploy the Customs Quick Response Team to handle urgent complaints from consumers and tourists about retail rip-offs, commissioner Clement Cheung says.

NYT: China Expands Microblog Identification Program http://t.co/eEDZLMd2 -> Wired: Supreme Court Says Congress May Re-Copyright Public Domain Works http://t.co/j7pBmN6W re: recognition of foreign rights under Berne -> FP Passport: SOPA, China, and the World's Smallest Violin http://t.co/pQel4RIi @isaacstonefish -> Foreign Policy: The Smog that Ate Beijing http://t.co/yjW7SdSb Difficult to enjoy these stunning pics when you […]

Just saw either a huge mouse or small rat skitter across the floor of my neighborhood foreign JV retail store. -> WSJ: Developer Battle in Shanghai: Foreshadowing Fights to Come? http://t.co/48Iov75y -> Guardian: Rebalancing the global economy needn't be painful – just let China grow http://t.co/v24i9vIH -> RT @chinasolved: Know Your Chinese Counterparty: Long Term […]

Here's Leys's review of a newly-published collection of Liu Xiaobo's writings in English translation in the New York Review of Books.