Min Lee

January 07, 2014 | Corporate Counsel

What exactly should a mobile app developer do to stay on the right side of increasing pressure to protect user data?

By Min Lee

7 minute read

November 11, 2009 | Daily Report Online

HONG KONG AP - A Hong Kong court ruled Wednesday Cathay Pacific Airlines Ltd. unfairly fired 18 pilots amid a labor dispute in 2001 and ordered the airline to pay their former employees nearly $8 million.The ruling is a blow to Hong Kong's flagship airline, which like other carriers is still recovering from the global economic crisis and swine flu scare that sent passenger and cargo traffic plummeting.

By MIN LEE

3 minute read

August 03, 2009 | Daily Report Online

HONG KONG AP - Hong Kong legislators questioned Monday if a settlement deal returns enough money to investors who bought $1.8 billion in failed Lehman Brothers-backed derivatives and whether it punishes the banks that sold them.The investors - some of them retirees - were outraged when Lehman collapsed in September, staging protests and accusing banks of peddling risky financial products without explaining them properly.

By MIN LEE

3 minute read

November 16, 2007 | National Law Journal

China is too cautious about the lust in Ang Lee's "Lust, Caution" -- or so alleges a Chinese law student who is suing the government for asking the Taiwanese director to cut steamy sex scenes from his new movie. The case highlights public dissent about China's censorship system, which doesn't classify films by age-appropriateness. Dong Yanbin has accused the government of failing to set up a ratings system that would allow adults to see an uncensored version of the movie.

By Min Lee

3 minute read

September 01, 2010 | Law.com

Hong Kong's new top judge took office Wednesday vowing to defend the rule of law in the former British colony, where activists worry that the territory's semiautonomous status is eroding under Chinese rule. While Beijing resumed sovereignty over Hong Kong in 1997, it let this thriving financial hub retain its British-influenced political, economic and legal systems and Western-style civil liberties. But 13 years on, some local activists fear independence from Chinese authoritarian rule is weakening.

By Min Lee

3 minute read

August 22, 2005 | Law.com

The Walt Disney Co. said Friday it has hired an auditor to investigate claims that its Chinese contractors pay workers below minimum wage, demand excessive overtime and cheat labor monitors by faking pay slips. Disney said it has asked the nonprofit firm Verite to probe allegations by the Students and Scholars Against Corporate Misbehavior, a new group aimed at protecting Chinese workers' rights. The allegations come less than a month before the opening of Hong Kong Disneyland.

By Min Lee

4 minute read

June 02, 2008 | Law.com

Mainland Chinese lawyers known for defending rights have been unable to get their licenses renewed ahead of an annual deadline, a Hong Kong group said Friday. China Human Rights Lawyers' Concern Group chairman Albert Ho identified three of the lawyers at a news conference in Hong Kong. Human Rights Watch named another lawyer, Jiang Tianyong. Some of the affected firms represented Tibetans detained in the Chinese crackdown on riots in Tibet in March.

By Min Lee

3 minute read

January 30, 2006 | Law.com

The record industry won a victory Thursday against illegal online music swapping in Hong Kong as a court ordered four Internet service providers to reveal the names of 22 people who uploaded copyrighted music onto Web sites. The move -- sought by seven record labels, including Universal, Sony BMG and Warner Music -- paved the way for legal action against the 22 suspected offenders to seek compensation.

By Min Lee

2 minute read

November 16, 2007 | Law.com

China is too cautious about the lust in Ang Lee's "Lust, Caution" -- or so alleges a Chinese law student who is suing the government for asking the Taiwanese director to cut steamy sex scenes from his new movie. The case highlights public dissent about China's censorship system, which doesn't classify films by age-appropriateness. Dong Yanbin has accused the government of failing to set up a ratings system that would allow adults to see an uncensored version of the movie.

By Min Lee

3 minute read

April 12, 2010 | Law.com

When Hong Kong's first chief justice under Chinese rule, Andrew Li, announced his retirement in September, some feared that the territory's leader would replace him with someone susceptible to political pressure from China. But Hong Kong's top lawyers and a leading human rights activist were relieved to see Chief Executive Donald Tsang name British-educated Geoffrey Ma to head the Court of Final Appeal on Thursday.

By Min Lee

4 minute read