In Hong Kong's Legislature Under China's Sovereignty: 1998-2013 Dr Gu Yu thoroughly analyses how Hong Kong's legislature has impacted the law-making process as well as the financial control and supervision of the executive branch of the government. The political cleavage in Hong Kong seen in recent years has affected the level of Legco's autonomy in terms of leadership, rules, committee autonomy and control over the legislative agenda. Given the weakened autonomy of Legco and the decline of moderate forces in both the pro-Beijing and pro-democracy camps, the role of Legco as a collective actor of checks and balances against the executive branch has been weakened. This book will appeal to both academics and practitioners whose work involves the relationship between the legislature and the executive branch in the HKSAR.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of five workshops of the 13th International Conference on Web-Age Information Management, WAIM 2012, held in Harbin, China, in August 2012. The 34 revised full papers are organized in topical sections on the five following workshops: the First International Workshop on Graph Data Management and Mining (GDMM 2012), the Second International Wireless Sensor Networks Workshop (IWSN 2012), the First International Workshop on Massive Data Storage and Processing (MDSP 2012), the Third International Workshop on Unstructured Data Management (USDM 2012); the 4th International Workshop on XML Data Management (XMLDM 2012).

Another installment in the horror franchise, following a group of teenagers who travel to Thailand and pass the time by dabbling in black magic and telling each other ghost stories. After stumbling across a book that claims to be the key to seeing the dead, the group unleash a series of strange events that will have lasting repercussions.