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News
on December 26, 2007
General Motors is set to begin production next year of a hybrid car in China. The automaker hopes to be able to roll of the new vehicle in time for the Beijing Olympics in August, GM said on Wednesday...
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News
on December 25, 2007
Winding Road and Autoblog are among of several news sources reporting big Christmas news for General Motors in China: GM has become the first international auto maker to sell one millions vehicles in ...
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Internet
on December 24, 2007
In a world where information is a commercial product and providing access to information over the Internet is a major growth industry, is censorship a violation of free trade?
You'd think that qu...
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Outsourcing
on December 20, 2007
Barack Obama: I would stop the import of all toys from China.
I remember in 1992 that Singapore had a problem with its mass rapid transit system. the MRT there is wonderful. But delinquent youths had...
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News
on December 19, 2007
Merrill Lynch got hit. So did UBS and Citigroup. Now Morgan Stanley has announced huge losses as a result of bad decisions in the subprime loan debacle. Morgan Stanley is writing down almost $10 billi...
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Outsourcing
on December 18, 2007
We all know someone whose job used to be in Michigan, Missouri, or Maryland and now their job is in China - and when their job moved, they didn't. So now they're unemployed or under-employed.....
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Internet
on December 17, 2007
I've spent a lot of time and energy keeping track of the umpteen presidential candidates in America over the last year and examining their positions. There's a lot of stupid, even scary, think...
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VC and PE: education and training
on December 16, 2007
Anne Arundel Community College is going to offer entrepreneurs and business people the chance to think a little harder about doing business in China, according to a story in the Baltimore Sun The scho...
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Private Equity
on December 16, 2007
The Times Online says it's bingo!
Gala Coral, a British gambling operator backed by private equity funds, has managed to get a license to operate a bingo club in Hebei Province in China.
It&#...
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Venture Capital
on December 15, 2007
Zero2IPO recently released the China Venture Capital & Private Equity Annual Ranking for 2007 and this year's number one venture capital firm is SAIF Partners.
SAIF Partners describes itself ...
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Law
on December 14, 2007
Just one day after signing a deal to improve the safety of some Chinese-made drugs commonly used in the U.S., China has announced the the creation of a nationwide recall system for drugs, according to...
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Law
on December 13, 2007
China and the U.S. signed an agreement Tuesday that could improve the safety of some commonly used drugs in the U.S., including lipitor, Viagra, a flu drug called oseltamivir, and an antibiotic used f...
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News
on December 12, 2007
Los Angeles, CA-December 12, 2007-Growthink, the leading Investment Banking and Business Development Services Firm to Emerging and Middle Market Enterprises, announced today that the Company has been ...
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Internet
on December 10, 2007
The Shanghai Daily recently reported that venture capital investment in Internet technology was "fading." The winner? More traditional industries like energy, healthcare, education, and cons...
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Private Equity
on December 9, 2007
Private equity firms Hikari Private Equity and Susquehanna International Group China have invested $20 million in the video sharing site 56.com, according to Personal Bee.
Several other partners we...
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Stocks
on December 6, 2007
Rick Aristotle Munarriz has a good article online at the moment at Motley Fool about Baidu breaking into the NASDAQ top 100.
Baidu is now the first Chinese company ever to be added to the NASDAQ inde...
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IPOs
on December 5, 2007
China's largest biodiesel company has filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to float an IPO on the New York Stock Exchange in the near future.
Gushan Environmental Energy Ltd fi...
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News
on December 4, 2007
Todd Glass, energy specialist with the Heller Ehrman law firm, thinks that the solar sector in China is unsustainable. And he says so in a recent interview with Xinhua Financial Network News.
Why d...
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Law
on December 3, 2007
China wants green investors. Not "green" as is new, inexperienced investor. China is looking for investors whose ideas don't consume much energy and don't create much pollution.
Th...
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Entrepreneurship
on December 2, 2007
I found an anonymous blogger recently who reckons that China is a joint venture playground. Do you agree with him?
I think we're all waiting to see right now whether China's new labor law wil...
