For ten months the investigative journalist Li Jianjun laid the groundwork for bringing charges for corruption against the head of a giant Chinese state-owned company. He says his work has implicated a former top Party official in providing protection for the illegal deals.

HONG KONG—An estimated 130,000 Hong Kong residents celebrated New Year’s Day by wending through the city in several marches protesting the interference of the Chinese Communist Party in Hong Kong.

In Hong Kong, 25,000 protesters demand an investigation over the mysterious death of dissident Li Wangyang.

For the mass protest, protesting college students made a tombstone symbolizing the death of democracy in Hong Kong.

On Wednesday members of a Chinese communist youth group from the mainland vandalized banners and poster boards at four Falun Gong sites in Hong Kong. Police arrested two adult leaders of the group.

Information surfaced last month that Octopus Holdings Pty. had sold two million personal data records to six insurance companies, without obtaining the users’ direct consent.

On July 1, 2009, people marched in Hong Kong for the seventh consecutive year in protest of the Chief Executive’s subordination to Beijing.