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...

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....

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...

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)...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

The Second Life Herald published an interesting op/ed piece yesterday on "The Problem with China." The problem, of course, is dissidents - and what to do about them when the government of...

The University of Arkansas announced last week that they're starting an Executive Master of Business Administration (MBA) program focused on China. The first class of 13 graduate students just...

A study in the journal most recent edition of the journal China & World Economy say that there "no strong empirical evidence that inflation in China has a significant impact on inflation in...

Inflation in China is at a high point not seen since last century. According to a February 19th Agence France Press report on inflation in China, "The nation's main inflation gauge spiked to...

The BBC and other news sources are reporting that two Chinese firms and an American Company have been indicted in the US for "their alleged role in a tainted pet food scandal." We reported...

Happy Chinese New Year. It is now the Year of the Rat in China. I was born in the Year of the Rat, in 1960. China Success Stories has a nice piece on the new year. Chinese New Year is......

I saw bits and pieces of the Republican debate last night and was later able to find a transcript of the debate to look over. China bashing has been a problem for Republicans. Duncan Hunter, who has...

Shawn Wang, the Chief Financial Officer of Chinese Internet giant Baidu, died last week after an accident on December 27 in China. Wang joined Baidu in 2004 and was a key figure in the company's...

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...