Most of the big stories today could be described as "news that looks suspiciously like things we've seen before." But that's quite all right. Means less work for me explaining what it all means. Pretty soon I won't even have to bother with commentary of any kind, and the entire production of this blog will […]

Here's a familiar story with a twist: Swedish fashion giant H&M denied on Wednesday accusations that the company encouraged "slave-like" wages at a subcontractor's factory[.] "It's completely incorrect," H&M Chief Executive Karl-Johan Persson told Swedish daily Expressen. A documentary to be broadcast on Swedish television channel TV4 on Wednesday alleges that . . . factory […]

Is having a "double standard" in China now illegal? If so, that is really big news.

The future will be way cool, but there's a good chance that handwriting won't play a big role in it.

An annual oil-spill response joint exercise off Ha Mei Wan, Lamma Island, this morning tested responses in combating oil pollution in Hong Kong waters. Response groups contained the mock oil-spill situation of an oil tanker anchored near Ha Mei Wan le…

Police today arrested a 45-year-old man after a 49-year-old woman was found dead inside a unit in Yau Ma Tei yesterday. At about 11am yesterday, a woman called Police after she found her female neighbour unconscious inside the unit at 226 Shanghai Str…

Police are investigating technical difficulties that prevented some of its command and control system consoles from communicating with frontline police officers. The failure occurred at around 11.05 yesterday morning, and affected consoles were switch…