Here's a Chatham House report on the subject by Sonya Sceats with Shaun Breslin. I haven't looked at it myself, but it is recommended by a colleague as an excellent and comprehensive treatment of China's performance under the international human…
2012-10-31
China Hearsay is going into the shop for a refit. Please be patient. New theme up tomorrow (I hope).
2012-10-31
Police today charged a 48-year-old man with the October 24 murder of a 49-year-old woman in Yau Ma Tei. His case will be heard in Kowloon City Magistrates' Courts in his absence tomorrow. He was arrested on October 29. Police arrested another suspec…
2012-10-31
Department of Justice’s Prosecutions Division has released its Yearly Review for 2011, presenting an overview of the division's work, and highlighting some of the key cases and events of the previous year. Describing the year as challenging and sign…
2012-10-31
More notes on the continuing saga of the Wen family fortune, which I've blogged about here and here. Lawyers retained by undisclosed members of the Wen family issued a statement denying parts of the story and containing a veiled threat…
2012-10-30
After almost an entire week, I finally found a domestic news report that admits what really happened with this incident.
2012-10-30
Rogier Creemers, a member of the Chinalaw listserv, recently had an interesting post on legal research in China. With his permission, it's reproduced here: Through a discussion with colleagues, I became interested in the question of what China's policy…
2012-10-30
It's been a busy month for me, so I'm only getting around to reporting this now. Here's the link.
2012-10-30
Five Mainland visitors have been arrested for breaching their conditions of stay by engaging in suspected parallel goods trading, and a batch of cosmetics seized. The two men and three women were aged 18 to 44. Immigration and Police officers made the…
2012-10-30
Police have arrested a 48-year-old man and a 35-year-old woman as suspects in a Yau Ma Tei murder on October 24. At about 11am that day, Police received a report of a 49-year-old woman lying unconscious on a bed inside a unit at 226 Shanghai Street. …
2012-10-30
Hasn't happened since the Gang of Four trial, but may be in the works. Here's blogger Siweiluozi's take.
2012-10-30
Here’s an interesting twist to the recen…
2012-10-29
In this episode of China Money Podcast, guest Hubert Tse answers ten questions about the QFLP (Qualified Foreign Limited Partner) program: from what QFLP allows foreign investors do, the pros and cons of becoming a QFLP, to what the future of QFLP program holds. Listen to the full interview in the audio podcast, or read […]
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2012-10-29
As the U.S. braces for a killer storm, which thanks to climate change we should get used to, China is dealing with more neighborhood-level environmental challenges. We appear to have had yet another victory for NIMBY (not in my backyard) protesters, this time in the city of Ningbo, where the government has suspended work on […]
2012-10-29
Huawei's media affairs chief talks about the company's U.S. strategy, transparency and what lies ahead.
2012-10-29
Customs officers have arrested a 39-year-old man after seizing a batch of smartphones and computer central processing units worth $970,000 at Lok Ma Chau control point. At about 1.30pm today, the officers stopped an outbound truck with a 40-foot conta…
2012-10-29
Kowloon City Magistracy has sentenced a merchant and a hawker to eight months and one year's jail for vote-rigging during the 2011 District Council Election, the Independent Commission Against Corruption said today. On July 16, 2011, the defendants su…
2012-10-29
Guinea-Bissau nationals will require a visa to enter Hong Kong for whatever purposes, including those who remain airside during transit, from November 1, the Immigration Department announced today. At present, Guinea-Bissau nationals are allowed to vi…
2012-10-28
Lawyers purporting to speak on behalf of the family of Wen Jiabao (and I have no reason to doubt that they do) have issued a statement challenging certain aspects of the blockbuster expose recently published in the New York Times…
2012-10-27
Two boys, aged seven and eight, died in a village house fire in Pat Heung, Yuen Long, this morning. A 35-year-old woman was sent to hospital. The fire broke out at No. 492 Kam Wing Garden around 12.55am. Firefighters arrived at the scene at 1.01am and…
2012-10-26
Today's English-language, foreign China news was dominated by a discussion of . . . English-language, foreign China news. No wait, hear me out. You see, a certain major newspaper from the U.S., often known as the Gray Lady, published an in-depth research piece on the family finances of a certain China government official. This sort […]