Just a day after Online game company HiPiHi saw a small shot of venture capital come in, The9 saw a much larger chunk of funding come their way from international gaming giant Electronic Arts (EA)....
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by Greg Cruey on May 30, 2007
Probably not. That at least seems to be the consensus so far. In a move designed to cool China's red hot stock markets the Chinese Ministry of Finance today tripled the stamp tax on the trading of...
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Several online sources are reporting that Beijing-based HiPiHi has gotten hold of between $7-$10 million in venture capital funds to launch a virtual world for the people of China to live in online...
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Foreign policy expert and Harvard PhD Thomas Barnett pointed to the "slew of articles declaiming the 'damage' of China's pegged yuan" in his blog yesterday. Is protectionism just...
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Hats off to Steve Faber at Debt Free for his blog on how demand in India and China will impact commodities in the future. The Economist had this to say almost two years ago: "NOWHERE has...
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While it is a long way from being my only source of news, or even my primary source of news, some of the most stimulating information and analysis that I see (or hear, in this case) in the course...
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When I was a student in the linguistics program at the Australian National University a story circulated about the man who wrote a computer program that could translate English into Chinese and visa...
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My hat's off to Arijit Sengupta, or "Apu" as he prefers to be called, at the Rational Outsourcing Blog. Apu made me think about something I don't consider often - outsourcing to...
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Somewhere in your home you have something that was made in China. Maybe it's your television. Maybe it's your dinnerware or your coffee maker. Maybe it's a part on the car in your garage....
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by Greg Cruey on May 15, 2007
The average Chinese Joe is moving his money - from savings deposit accounts to the stock market, according to the Chinese News Service Xinhua. Over $1 billion U.S. worth of Chinese currency was...
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ResearchInChina published a report recently on China's blood products industry. China Blood Product Industry Report, 2006-2007, published in April, draws the conclusion that the blood products...
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by Greg Cruey on May 11, 2007
The draft of The Labor Contract Law of the People's Republic of China was originally passed as a first reading a year and a half ago now and the Asian Wall Street Journal reported recently that...
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What are you invested in? The recent pet food recall in the U.S. should make investors in China cringe as they contemplate the difference between standards in China and standards in more developed...
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