If the Mini Cooper car is out of your price range, what about a RMB 2,000 Mini bike? Nowadays, nothing’s more fashionable than eco-friendly transport. Rbike, a Hong Kong-based retailer, has rolled into Solana with a “four-wheel plus two-wheel” philosophy, advocating that car owners shift to pedal power.
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© xiquinhosilvaJeff Nolan (Venture Chronicles) blogged this week about his recent trip to Southern China. Nolan takes a close look at China's Guangdong Province. He visited a number of manufacturing facilities and spoke with business executives in Chang'an, Foshan, Guangzhou, and Shenzhen. Conclusion number one: there is a labor shortage. Nolan looks at worker compensation as one of the issues involved in the labor shortage.
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Excellent blog post on the Harvard Business Review Blog regarding prices in China. The post is written by Max Magni and Yuval Atsmon of McKinsey & Company's consumer practice in Greater China and Atsmon is an "associate principal" in the Shanghai office.
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Excellent post over at the China Tax Insight Blog, based largely on a couple of comments on this blog to which I had not yet gotten around to responding. The China Tax Insight post is entitled, "A Seeming Solution to the China PE problem" and it relates to businesses trying to avoid having to set up a presence in China for tax or other reasons.
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Recent Chinese history has shown that only socialism can save China, and only socialism with Chinese characteristics can develop China. In socialist China, patriotism and socialism are naturally unified. Comrade Deng Xiaoping once said:“There are people who say that not loving socialism doesn’t amount to not loving the motherland. How could the motherland an abstract [...]

I am a little bit embarrassed to talk about it, but writing a blog sometimes requires from me to make little confessions. Until recently I did not realize how widespread the practice of shaving legs is. Most Chinese girls don’t have hair on legs and we don’t need to do anything to keep them smooth. Until few months ago I never thought that somewhere else it could be different. Last year I went to Israel and studied Hebrew language in the special courses for foreigners.
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• "In recent months, protests over the severe illnesses caused by China's heavy industries have resulted in a crackdown on polluters. Leading the charge has been the state-run media, which the central government is now using to gain control over corrupt local authorities and powerful commercial enterprises." [Environment 360]
• The family of a 69-year-old grandmother who was buried alive by demolition crews has won compensation: five houses and 600,000RMB.
  

Angry residents have long been battling to rid their neighbourhood of foul odours caused by Richina Group tanneries. In the second instalment of a three-part article, Xu Shuda reports that change is in sight.

Check out this excellent page with great descriptions of various adhesion tests: http://www.defelsko.com/technotes/adhesion_methods.htm This one too! http://www.defelsko.com/technotes/adhesion-testing-wood.pdf

Cheap toys like this one below have been the source of a great deal of China product recalls in the past few years.  Often it is the result of poor quality lead-containing paint used to coat the toys, but in this case it was due to the tip ...

See also: Battery Tests for MP3, MP4 and Consumer Electronics – Battery Life CheckIf you are buying consumer electronics from China it is essential that you perform this important check on the goods before accepting them.  Batteries may appear completely acceptable at first, but after using the item ...

Here a first attempt of finding possible patterns for Knulp’s movements.

Remember when mixologlist Bob Louison was an innocent French youth in a big Chinese city? That was like two years ago. Well, he’s come a long way, cheri, and tomorrow will host his thirtieth cocktail class in Beijing. This one has a Japanese theme–the cocktails have a Sochu or Sake base–and will be held at [...]

Submitted by Cherry Ho on March 19, 2010 - 17:56

There’s lots happening around Beijing in the world of film over the next week – here’s the run down on gossip, Tim Burton’s latest and indie screenings around town.
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Yunnan Information Times, March 19, 2010

Kunming's Heilongtan Park's clear water pool changed to a muddy color overnight. The management of the park claimed that the park had never gone muddy in March before.
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After its rise, China “shouldn’t need to to hide its capacities (仍然需要韬光养晦) or to stay within a so-called framework, or fruitlessly hover between the two concepts” any more when handling contradictions with big Western powers, or in the construction of an international system, writes Liang Jiaqi (梁嘉芪), apparently an editor with Singapore’s Morning Post. Following [...]

First of all, news on a massive party that only came out after our March issue went to print. The next YEN White party has been set for next Friday, March 26 at The Star Live.
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Superb night last Tuesday at Tryst with bartender Pat deciding to get out the maple syrup and make Knob Creek-based Old-Fashioneds and Manhattans. He also whipped up Breakfast Martinis and caramelized berries to go with some shots. Eight customers makes not only for a tight fit in this tiny place, but also for a good [...]

A friend is applying for a US fiancee visa for his Chinese fiancee, but she's a Communist Party member. Ask the Yangxifu recommends where to get information on how to overcome this immigration...

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