The Customs & Excise Department has arrested 12 people, aged 28 to 58, including 11 company directors, in a pirated software crackdown in the last two months. Customs officers searched the offices of seven companies and seized 35 computers loaded …

Chinese police have moved a step closer to launching a system to register citizens' fingerprints in 2013, it was reported on Saturday. [ . . . ] On Oct. 29, 2011, China adopted an amendment to its Resident Identity Card Law to require citizens' fingerprints to be recorded, a move expected to be helpful in […]

"Stop viewing China like it's the cold war," James Packer, who owns multimillion dollar casino businesses in Australia and Macau, said at a recent tourism forum. "Start viewing them as a modern member of the industrialized world." The Chairman of Crown Entertainment Group, Packer wants what he calls "frosty relations" between Australia and China to ease. […]