Tough on white-collar crime.(Short message: around the wireless industry)

Wireless Asia, December, 2004

The recent spate of telecom scandals in the US resulted in a handful of arrests, but those that do result in convictions will probably mean little jail time for offenders, and that in minimum-security prisons where doing time is relatively easy. (It used to be easier-before reforms were introduced in the 1990s, some minimum security federal prison camps allowed prisoners to wear their own clothes and go home to have dinner with their families, according to Forbes magazine's 2003 list of the best places in the US to go to prison.)

White-collar criminals in China don't get off quite that easily. Last October, Huang Qiang--a former vice general manager of China Unicorn Xinglai Trading, a subsidiary of China Unicorn, who managed its transportation operations and...

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