A Letter from Hong Kong, July 2008: Caldeson Principal Michael Steemson views leaky banking and public sector records security in Hong Kong, the teeming, capitalist jewel in China’s socialist crown. It feels like being back home …

An analysis, sometimes critical, of the challenges, problems and future for urban development archiving in the People’s Republic. Beijing’s Renmim University Archives College Associate Professor Dr Xiaomi An’s nation-wide survey.

The National Archives of Australia launched its digitisation on demand programme on April 11, 2001, to provide a growing client base with better access to its holdings of historic records without requiring people to travel sometimes great distances across that vast continent to visit the repositories in Canberra or the State capital. Within six months, the programme had half a million document images on line and was being overwhelmed by clients clamouring for more.