Foreign Policy magazine has been very hit or miss lately when it comes to China coverage. Given that the U.S.-China relationship is so important and that FP is the preeminent foreign policy periodical, this is a worrisome trend. I like to keep an open mind, but I have to admit that I was ready to […]
2013-01-09
China Daily tells us that perhaps we shouldn’t drink tap water in Beijing. {Gasp!} I guess it’s better than not that this sort of “news” gets in the paper. In the old days, we wouldn’t have seen this kind of negative coverage of public services at all. On the other hand, I don’t know anyone […]
2013-01-09
Police issued three fixed penalty tickets to minibus drivers for failing to wear seatbelts, and gave eight verbal warnings and 194 summonses to minibus passengers, in a citywide crackdown yesterday to reinforce the wearing of seatbelts on minibuses.
Anyone not wearing a seatbelt on a minibus faces three-months' jail and a $5,000 fine.
There were 931 traffic accidents involving minibuses from January to November last year, resulting in 1,537 casualties, both down 6% on the same period in 2011.
2013-01-09
The Customs & Excise Department and Marine Police today seized 480 computer hard disks with a total value of about $192,000 in a joint anti-smuggling exercise in Ap Lei Chau.
At about 4am, Customs and Marine Police officers found several men unloading goods from a private car onto a high-powered speedboat at the pier on Lee Nam Road.
The men immediately fled in the speedboat and car, and officers seized eight cartons of hard disks. No one was arrested.
Under the Import & Export Ordinance, any one found guilty of exporting unmanifested cargo is liable to a maximum fine of $2 million and seven years in prison.
2013-01-09
Police arrested 69 drivers, including 15 who were involved in traffic accidents, in a city-wide anti-drink driving crackdown during the festive season.
Officers conducted 568 random breath test operations in which 11,064 drivers were required to conduct breath tests. Forty-two drivers failed the tests.
Among them, 11 drivers later passed the evidential specimen analysis and were released.
Two drivers who refused to provide samples for the screening breath test were also arrested.