A mass email containing several amorous messages from Canada's foreign affairs parliamentary secretary Bob Dechert to Xinhua News Agency reporter Shi Rong, was leaked Thursday evening to more than 240 leading journalists, academics, politicians and entrepreneurs in Canada. more ›

As the convential wisdom goes, China will not respect other's intellectual property rights (IPR) until its own IPR needs protection. If this is true, then IPR in China recently took a significant step forward as the Financial Times is reporting that a litigious Shenzhen USB flash drive manufacturer Netac has hired Morgan Lewis & Bockius to sue New Jersey computer hardware manufacturer PNY Technologies for infringing upon Netac's patent for USB flash memory drives, or key drives (that's US Patent #6,829,672 for you IP boffins out there). more ›