Hao Hao ReportThe best China news and blog posts

Taiwanese travelers in Taiwan accuse Korea's Asiana Airlines of discriminating against them when the airline asks the Chinese passengers to let the Korean passengers go first. Some mainland Chinese reaction is not very sympathetic.

Chinese people on the internet respond to the East Nanjing Road stabbing incident that hurt 5 people. Shanghainese and other Chinese argue about who is to blame. Shanghai say it is always the "outsiders" who commit crime. Others say Shanghainese are xenophobic and discrimination against non-Shanghainese people as outsiders.

Bad news is no news according to our boys in Beijing. This is on digg too, so if you want to vote it up the Digg list, by all means, please do.

As China prepares to take its place as the world’s dominant power, it faces confounding obstacles: its insularity and sheer stupidity in delivering the genuine good news about its own progress.

Good news for Australian consumers - potentially two Chinese car brands will be launched in Australia in 2009.

Following the news reports of large busts in China (pirated Windows Office and Vista programs) and India (computer dealers in Gujarat), Microsoft is feeling pretty good about itself and its battle with its evil nemesis, the IP monster.

This post from Angry Chinese Blogger details the Chinese response (and a good deal of related history) to the British government's recent report "encouraging" Beijing to step up and make good on its promises to introduce full democracy in the UK's former colony of Hong Kong. A good backgrounder for anyone curious about HK affairs.

China on Sunday expanded massively its censorship of the flow of news from foreign sources into the country, the official Xinhua news agency reported.

For the most part, the news in China about IPR protection is bad news. There are copies of DVDs everywhere, LV bags are sold in bulk, and fake pharmaceuticals are a real concern for the government.

But the news isn’t all bad. In fact, while conducting a 20 city survey on manufacturing we decided to add a simple question:

Are there any specific cases where IPR suits have been filed, and what was the outcome?