A recent rumor reported by Pacific Epoch has cause two different blogs to look at peer-to-peer file sharing in China. NewTeeVee is one of the sites that covered the rumor. Pacific Epoch is reporting...

Seeking Alpha had a good piece Sunday on the poor performance of China's biomedical industry when it comes to venture capital funding. The comparison is simple enough. In the U.S., biomedical...

Analysys International thinks it will get bigger - MUCH bigger. According to a report released yesterday by XFN-Asia, Analysis International expects there to be 600 million Internet users in China by...

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...

It might be hard to decide what to think about China's Business Confidence Index, but the venture capital index is definitely up. MarketWatch reported this weekend on the latest MoneyTree(TM)...

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....

China is evidently paying people to say the "right" (read: politically correct) thing on the Internet. And (surprise) they've been doing it for a while, according to blogger Joop...

The Deal.com thinks so. They published a piece this week in which they concluded that "Chinese Internet company Oak Pacific Interactive is considering a public offering either in Hong Kong or the...

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...

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...

Tech Start Ups carried a blog post a couple of days ago on the VC industry in China. I think the story originated with Xinhua. This year's Q2 numbers for venture capital in china are up 70% over...

China's monstrous online job site, Zhaopin.com, got a shot of cash so huge recently that would make king kong blush. PaidContent.Org is reporting that Zhaopin has received $110 million in venture...

Koolanoo Group has found success in China. Their social networking site, 360Quan, is the largest teen-oriented Internet site in China, with 30 million logging on each month. "China is an emerging...

PE Hub said this week that Legend Capital has raised $400 million for a private equity fund focused on technology, media and telecom in China. Legend Capital's parent company, Legend Group, is...

Reuters is reporting that Capital Today is close to finishing up the fund raising on a new $600 million private equity fund to be focused on China. The new fund will emphasize "retail, consumer...

Liz Gannes at New Tee Vee brought it to my attention this afternoon that 56.com has miraculously reappeared in the land of the living. The Guangzhou-based video sharing site had been offline for five...

The China Daily reported this week that European PE Firm CVC Capital Partners is opening a Beijing office. Founded in 1981, CVC Capital Partners ("CVC") is a leading global private equity...

The Guangzhou-based video sharing site 56.Com seems to have bit the dust. For the moment at least, the site is dead. And it has been for over a month... Web TV Wire seems to think that the...

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)...

The Huffington Report has become one of the supernovas of the blogosphere and they nailed it with this piece. They've captured both the optimism and the pessimism that surrounds the Internet in...

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...