"Mix-up with divorce papers" from South China Morning Post

"SICHUAN- A couple who tried to get a divorce at Luzhou's Longmatan district marriage registration office last Friday discovered when they got home that they had instead been given marriage certificates, Newssc.org reports. The office said it dealt with more than 4,000 couples getting married or divorced each year but only had two staff to cope with the workload. The couple received their divorce certificates on Thursday."

"Data storage is a lucrative market. With the volume of e-mail, spreadsheets and other documents ballooning, companies need ever-more tools and space to manage their data." from South China Morning Post

"If Hong Kong's business don't stop throwing away their records, a vital part of the city's history will be lost forever, a group of archivists and historians warn." from South China Morning Post

"Stacy Gould, University of Hong Kong head archivist, said: "The Hong Kong of 2010 isn't so different from the Hong Kong of 1890, because it's still ruled by corporate oligarchies. That's why it's so important for businesses to establish archives." "


"In Hong Kong, HSBC draws from its archives to promote its brand, refer to past business decision and, in the case of litigation, find evidence to support its side of events."

"Renowned library serves as focal point for China studies" from South China Morning Post

"Hong Kong has stood at the international forefront of research on China for more than four decades, thanks largely to the Universities Service Centre for China Studies.

The two-storey library at Chinese University boasts one of the most extensive and accessible collections of materials on contemporary China, with holdings that include more than 250 provincial and national newspapers and nearly 1,500 periodicals going back to the early 1950s.

The centre has produced the most authoritative archive on the Cultural Revolution - a CD-ROM released in 2002. Its 35 million words include mainland newspaper reports, speeches of Communist Party leaders and leaflets published by Red Guards during the political upheavals."


"Wang said more than 60 per cent of the centre's current clients are scholars from the mainland. The centre sponsors up to 40 mainland academics each year on short visits, he said, particularly researchers from far-flung provinces such as Yunnan."

"Get ready for a major American bank exposé early next year, Assange tells magazine" from South China Morning Post

"Speaking to Forbes magazine, Assange said he was ready to unleash tens of thousands of documents that could "take down a bank or two." "

"Ben Kacyra, an Iraqi-born engineer and entrepreneur, wants to digitise the world's most significant physical heritage." from Wired UK

"The city is under pressure from population expansion and visitor numbers. In 2007 scans were produced, including 37 of El Caracol, one of the oldest observatories in the world."

"The Asia Art Archive was born out of Hsu's frustration." from South China Morning Post

"When she struggled to find reference material on Chinese contemporary art while studying for her MA in London she decided the only way to address that problem was to set up an archive herself."

"Why does it have to be static collection that's waiting for research students to open the book before it gets activated? Why can't it get activated through other ways? Hsu says."

" "We have a 10-year plan, we've identified individual archives across the region and were speaking to different organisations and individuals, and we are slowly going to bring all these materials together," she says."

"Fuji Xerox (Hong Kong) has initiated a "Document Solutions Pioneer" programme featuring a blended approach to interactive learning among sales executives." from South China Morning Post

"Maps for the bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki were also checked out by military representatives in 1962, and haven't been seen since." from NBC Washington

The national Archives is losing the map of archiving.