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After Canada terminated its federal immigrant investor program in early 2014, US eliminated another fierce competitor. Yesterday in an unexpected turn of event, Hong Kong indefinitely suspended its Immigrant Investor Program, or the Capital Investment...

By Peter S. Vogel A Hong Kong Judge disagreed with Google that Google’s Autocomplete may have created libeleous content and “cited Europe’s recent ‘right to be forgotten’ ruling requiring Google to remove embarrassing...

By Rebecca Ng, News Editor, A.M. Best HONG KONG (BestWire) - Proposed government-driven medical reforms together with an aging population and rising medical costs in Hong Kong is generating a new business model for group life and medical insurance...

SEC enforcement this holiday shortened week dismissed the remaining defendants in an insider trading case centered on an international take over which had been filed largely on the trading and within days of the announcement. The Court cited discovery...

Fulbright Briefing Democratic Republic of the Congo v FG Hemisphere Associates LLC (FACV Nos, 5, 6 & 7 of 2010) The Hong Kong Court of Final Appeal (the CFA) recently issued its judgment in Democratic Republic of the Congo v FG Hemisphere...

By: Gerard G. Pecht , Jeffrey A. Blount , Stephen Mark Dollar , Peter Stokes and Mark Thomas Oakes Fulbright Briefing Chinese companies with securities traded in the United States are facing mounting scrutiny from U.S. regulators, plaintiff's...

By: Richard Hill and James Rogers Global Arbitration Review A recent appeal brought by the Democratic Republic of the Congo has established that sovereign immunity is absolute in Hong Kong. Richard Hill and James Rogers , partner and senior...

Fulbright Briefing By: Richard Hill and Jia (Jessica) Fei View Media Fulbright's International Arbitration Briefing is written in Chinese. Contributors to Fulbright's Briefing are Richard Hill (rhill@fulbright.com or...

Reprinted from LexisNexis Hong Kong Legal Community *: Brendan Clift discusses the copyright-related encumbrances on primary sources of law in Hong Kong, including legislation, decisions of the courts and other documents, and makes the case for...

Fire ants are a royal pain (literally and figuratively). Chemical pesticides and many other brews have tried to wipe them out, unfortunately without success. They are now colonizing many other countries. But, what is the origin of these new invasions...

HONG KONG - (AP) Asian casino magnate Stanley Ho has filed a new lawsuit in an attempt to get back a $1.45 billion stake in his Macau gambling empire that he says was seized by some of his family members. It's yet another twist in a family feud that...

LAS VEGAS - (AP) The Nevada Supreme Court has overturned a $58.6 million judgment awarded to a Hong Kong businessman who said he helped Las Vegas Sands Corp. win a gambling license in Macau. Full version available to lexis.com subscribers .

HONG KONG - (AP) Democracy activists are not the only ones unhappy with a slow pace of electoral reform in Hong Kong. Environmentalists blame the city's political setup which guarantees a strong voice for business for stymieing efforts to clean...

By Rebecca Ng, News Editor, A.M. Best HONG KONG (BestWire) - Proposed government-driven medical reforms together with an aging population and rising medical costs in Hong Kong is generating a new business model for group life and medical insurance...

HONG KONG - (AP) A senior Chinese official's comments that some restrictions on universal suffrage in Hong Kong would be within international norms raised doubts Tuesday about Beijing's commitment to genuine democracy in the former British...