nick’s (n)-line life

A lawyer from China Law Blog was recently shocked to discover that his firm’s website degin had been ripped off (Via Peking Duck).
I rather suspect the site won’t be there too much longer, so I’ve taken screenshots for journalistic and archival purposes:

Harris & Moure

Blawg of China

n-line finds this highly entertaining…
As if this wasn’t funny [...]

A few hours ago a story hit Chinese state media that Jia Dezhi, a woman from Muxiang in Yunnan Province, has been arrested after it emerged that she had killed 6 people in order to kidnap and sell their children for profit:
The Australian - Jia, an illiterate, said she could earn up to 15,000 yuan [...]

Discussion of the OFT report declaring bank charges illegal linked with personal recent experiences of the charges and possible legal claims against the banks.

Looks like a lot has been going on in Singapore this week:
SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Singapore’s government dissolved parliament on Thursday and called an election for May 6, a poll that will be the first real test of Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong’s leadership. [ Via SingaBloodyPore ]
As a country approaches a general election one [...]

Discussion of the Kanamara Festival, Japan ["The Penis Festival"]

If you're reading this post then migration from the old SRCF University Server to a new host has been successful. This has been done in advance of my joyful eviction from University in July :) and as I write this I'm waiting for DNS to progorate before tidying things up.
Many thanks to Rob for letting [...]

Asiapundit has inspired me to do a post on traffic in China, something which is often joked about and quite entertaining, at least until things go pear shaped (as we'll see in the second part of this article). Anyway, with traffic-lights like this:
via Useless Air - yes they're red and green at [...]