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on October 4, 2008
Hats off to Richard Brubaker over at his blog, All Roads Lead to China, for pointing out this Financial Times article. If you enjoy understanding the big picture, the piece is insightful...
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on October 3, 2008
Money Morning's Jason Simpkins had a heartening article late last month - heartening, at least, if you're still investing in China...
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on September 30, 2008
A blog called Geostrategy brought this piece from the Australian's Sunday Business section to my attention. Their point is well taken: the world is paying attention to she how China handles the mi...
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on September 30, 2008
BusinessWeek ran an interesting piece last week on the question of what happens to the U.S-China commercial relationship if Barack Obama wins the White House.
What does happen? The answer seems to b...
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on September 28, 2008
Well, I've tried to ignore this story, but I suppose the time has come to comment on it...
WaPo had a story in their Sunday paper. In China you can take your child to the hospital and have its ki...
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on September 18, 2008
What is the difference between a chinese bank and an American bank? A Chinese bank has money...
Okay, I stole that joke from Richard Brubaker over at All Roads Lead to China. He goes on to point out ...
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on September 17, 2008
CNN Money ran a piece yesterday on the chaos that the collapse of Lehman Brothers brought to Hong Kong...Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. (LEH) suspended trading, investment banking and brokerage operati...
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on September 17, 2008
Forex Factory made an interesting point yesterday about the up side of China stock crash: it has led to a stronger bond market in China.
Since it reached wild peaks in October of last year, the Shang...
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on September 17, 2008
After five years of tight monetary policy, China's central bank announced a cut in a key interest rate Monday.
According to an AP report, the bank said it was lowering the rate on one-year yuan-d...
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on September 10, 2008
A post in Seeking Alpha pointed out today the China's auto sales are down in August - for the first time in three years.
Is this the start of a post-Olympic trend? Inflation in China is at a 12 ...
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on September 10, 2008
Ever wonder where the best place to do business in China is? If you're really interested in China, you probably already know. It's Hangzhou, and it has been for years now...
The China Daily r...
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on September 7, 2008
Today the Arizona Republican printed one of the best short round ups of basic etiquette tips for Asia that I think I've ever seen. Ten straightforward tips to remember - all of them easy to keep a...
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on August 21, 2008
Many pundits are predicting that China's economy will start a downward slide in a few days. Among those nay sayers are Dexter Roberts and Frederik Balfour at BusinessWeek:China spent some $43 bill...
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on August 20, 2008
I'll start by admitting that this has nothing to do with venture capital in China - excepted in the broadest possible sense of being about life in China....
A number of sources including the Huff...
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on August 14, 2008
China is now making automobiles in the U.S. - in Oklahoma, to be precise.
An article in the Huffington Post earlier this month pointed out that Chongqing ChangAn Automobile Co., Ltd. has begun produ...
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on August 8, 2008
In a recent commentary piece in The Independent, Stuart Simpson asks this question: Should we not celebrate China's continued rapid growth - after all not only will this mean many Chinese people w...
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on August 4, 2008
Interesting story in China CSR this morning on labor in China:Nineteen wal-mart China branches have signed collective contracts with Wal-mart China trade unions since the Wal-Mart Shenyang outlet sign...
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on July 21, 2008
Dedric Lam at the Shanghaiist had a post this morning on the rumor that African-Americans would be banned from Beijing's bar scene during the 2008 olympics coming up next month. Lam debunks the ru...
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on July 20, 2008
I know this isn't really VC-related but... Talk about a faux paux (if there's any truth to it): the Huffington Post reported Saturday on a piece in Hong Kong's South China Morning Post. Se...
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on July 18, 2008
Bloomberg pointed out the irony this week: Starbucks may be shutting down stores in the U.S., but it is investing more heavily in China at the same time.
Starbucks is closing 600 U.S. outlets and giv...
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on July 17, 2008
Tsinghua University drew international attention this week with the release of the 2006 Survey of Earned Doctorates (SED). The report showed that the Chinese university is now the single largest sourc...
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on July 9, 2008
Are you an optimist or a pessimist? Is your glass half empty, or half full? The answers to those sorts of personality questions probably shape how you think of the current business climate index (BCI)...
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on July 8, 2008
With the earthquake of May 12 over eight weeks behind us, it has become clear that the disaster will do little if anything) to slow China's heady economic growth.
A number of sources have looked ...
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on April 27, 2008
China is becoming a nation of shoppers. So I appreciated the piece by Shaun Rein on China's Rising Retail Market over at China business success stories earlier this month.
Rein's article, ori...
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on April 19, 2008
Life is complicated. Simplistic views, when they're expressed in isolation, can make some particular issue seem simple; but very few issues are really all that isolated.
I know there's almost...
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on April 18, 2008
GE thinks it can make money in China - more money than the $4.4 billion it made in 2007. And since Chairman and C.E.O. Jeffrey Immelt just announced its worst quarter of financial results in five year...
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on April 17, 2008
With its election cycle mostly behind it now, Taiwan is warming up to the Mainland. As part of that thaw in relationships, Taiwan is trying to attract Mainland tourist - along with their yuan renminbi...
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on April 17, 2008
The U.S. Food and Drug Agency looks set to open offices in China next month, according to China Hearsay. FDA officials evidently released the information on Tuesday.
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on April 16, 2008
This is already on the China Law Blog, so there's a good chance you've seen it by now. (Dan brings much more humor to the issue than I can.) But just in case you're not aware of the situat...
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on March 8, 2008
The Second Life Herald published an interesting op/ed piece yesterday on "The Problem with China." The problem, of course, is dissidents - and what to do about them when the government of th...
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