Today I came across a refreshingly humorous but very useful account of how language and culture play into communication problems for Western managers (and investors) in the Chinese workplace. The...

Chinese news sources announced today that Finance Minister Jin Renqing was resigning "for personal reasons." The Shanghaiist was more blunt, saying that he had been "removed." At...

Barely a week after word came out that Mainland China's private investors were going to be allowed to invest in the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, the government in Beijing has evidently had second...

The world is hungry for solar energy technology and China is quickly developing the world's leading (or at least fastest growing) solar energy corporate scene. Chinalysts just published a Chinese...

In Shanghai, factory workers and farmers from across Mainland China bring their nest eggs to the Shanghai Stock Exchange and gamble with it, looking for signs and omens to direct their efforts. At...

Your small business is growing. People tell you that you have a product or service that really fills a niche. You think a little venture capital could propel you to the next level, maybe take you to...

Red Line China reported today that China Kinwa High Technology Co., the parent company of 9You, has received approval from the Osaka Stock Exchange to cancel 9You's IPO there. 9You holds the China...

3NOD Electronics has become the first company based in China to list an initial public offering on the Korea Stock Exchange. The Shenzhen-based company makes speaker systems and other audio products,...

China is broken. Business Week reached that conclusion almost a month ago now. How badly is it broken? Can China be fixed? If it was fixed, what would it look like? Those questions have filled up a...

Has doing business with China become too expensive? It's a simple question of cost-benefit analysis. But cost benefit-analysis is not really as simple as you might think... Some of the cost of...

venture capital investment in Mainland China grew in the second quarter of 2007, with investment in information services like social networking sites, blogs, and user input websites (or...

The past week has been an interesting time in the ongoing debate about the value of China's currency, the Yuan Renminbi. The debate is growing more shrill. With the increase of emotions, logic and...

You'd almost call it China bashing - if the author, Yue Xi, wasn't Chinese. Yue Xi takes a look at some of the pitfalls of doing business in China in her blog post, Five Unpleasant Truths of...

You know you're spending too much time online when a government agency wants you to go through addiction counseling, right? In the past week I've seen at least ten news articles or blog...

Some disturbing bits of news about the most popular online virtual world, Second Life, came across my desk this week and, though the news was truly disturbing, it was also insightful regarding the...

Hats off to the good people at China Law Blog for their recent post, Ten Tips On Negotiating The China Deal. I should also congratulate the China Law Blog on winning the "Best China Blog"...

Hats off to the people at Gizmodo for their blog post on the release of Lenovo's new $199 basic laptop in China. In a market where digital TV and the Internet are growing by leaps and bounds...

Hats off to the people at Burnham's Beat. Last month their blog posted a handy set of practical steps for raising venture capital funds. The blog post is a nice guide to getting started in the...

U.S. Senate hearings that could raise the tax rate on some private equity and venture capital fund profits were overshadowed today when the Senate Banking Committee approved a measure that would put...

Seven witnesses testified today before the U.S. Senate Finance Committee on the question of whether investment fund managers should pay more than the 15% capital gains tax they now pay on the...