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,...

One of the biggest changes in China's business landscape over the past year has been the implementation of new provisions of the country's employment law on January 1st. Some of those changes...

I came across a blog post by James McMullen back on February 16: China Is a Budding Business' Best Friend. I saved it. I intended to comment here on it, but I just never got around to it. Then...

Two private equity funds, the Carlyle Group and MBK Partners, are in discussions to obtain a 25 percent stake in Sunny Bank. The small investment bank is in Taiwan. Reuters is reporting on the story....

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...

Nanjing-based ET Solar has come up with $19 million as part of a "Series A redeemable convertible preferred share placement," According to Clean Edge News. ET Solar is an integrated...

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...

London-based buyout firm CVC Capital has a new $4.1 billion war chest to use in Asia. It's the largest private equity fund ever raised for the Asia-Pacific region, according to PE Hub. The fund,...

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...

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. Health and Human Services...

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...

You could have easily missed it. If it weren't for the credit crunch and Bear Stearns going under and all the US election hooplah in the news and the screech of the wheels on the US economy...

Hangzhou-based C.Straits Food Chain Co. Ltd. announced last week that it has sold a 20% stake in its C.Straits Café restaurants chain in China to Goldman Sachs and Whitesun Equity Partners for $30...

the Israel-based Koolanoo Group plans to take 360Quan public on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange in this summer, according to a company press release. 360Quan.com is China's 2nd largest social...

Intel Capital has put $500 million into a second venture capital fund focused on China technology start-ups, according to ZD Net Asia. The fund will focus on start-ups "doing work in areas such...

Sovereign wealth has become a controversial concept. Countries take their monetary reserves and invest them in businesses in other countries. And no sovereign wealth fund (SWF) has been more...

I saw a short but interesting piece in Today's Financial News (TFN) recently that proclaimed that Taiwan (not Mainland China) was the place to invest your money. The author had reasons... First,...

ProGenTech, a life science company with offices in Shanghai, Suzhou and Emeryville California, announced last week that it had received US$21 million in venture capital funding from two sources....

According to a recent study by the Pew center, the answer to that question appears to be "yes." The report by Deborah Fallows (published in PDF format) is available online for free. Fallows...