The US Chamber of Commerce has produced an excellent and comprehensive report on the approval process (actually, many processes) for foreign direct investment in China. It includes both details and big-picture perspective. I don’t think I’ve ever s…

Forty Mainland visitors have been arrested for breaching their conditions of stay by being involved in suspected parallel goods trading in Sheung Shui, and two Hong Kong residents have been arrested for employing illegal workers.

Immigration and Police officers yesterday arrested 31 men and nine women, aged 18 to 62, all Mainland visitors, in Advanced Technology Centre, Choi Fat Street, and Choi Yuen Road.

A Hong Kong man and woman, aged 30 and 45, were also arrested.

Health food, baby products, and cosmetics were seized.

The Customs & Excise Department yesterday seized 779 ivory tusks worth $10.6 million from a container shipped to Hong Kong.

Customs officers found the ivory tusks, weighing 1,323 kg, in a container declared to contain architectural stones arriving from Kenya.

Covered by stone plates, the ivory tusks were packed in 40 sacks inside five wooden crates.

An investigation to locate the smuggling syndicate members continues.

Any person found guilty of trading in endangered species for commercial purposes is liable to a fine of $5 million and two years' imprisonment.