business

So now that it’s all over, what’s next?
First a couple of comments on the 0lympics and then some application to doing business here.
I’ve said for 8 years—this will be the best Olympics ever—and it appears that it was.  Was there any other choice?  With more police than foreigners in the capital, control of the weather, [...]

The other day an idea for a new site hit me, and as I was waiting for some deliverables from a client to arrive and didn’t have much to do, I figured - what the hell.
The site is called Twitfessions, and essentially it tracks and displays any Twitter tweets that are tagged with #confession. Basically [...]

I’ve written a number of times about Inland Western China vs. Eastern Coastal China and the advantage and disadvantages of each and how to decide where to locate.  There are certainly hundreds of other city and country specific comparison pieces online too.  Some of the best are at the All Roads Lead to China blog, [...]

Hermit the Taoist Dragonfly and Lethal Suxxess [TM] congratulate the suxxessful.

Local Chinese businesses who were expecting a boom in their businesses after China won the right to host the Beijing Olympics, have been disappointed with how things turned out. International and local travel numbers have even been down as the government increased restrictions for travel for foreigners and Chinese. Early reports on the [...]
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Aug. 21 – In the first half of the year, China attracted 71 venture investment deals worth US$1.37 billion; the highest level since 2003.
In comparison, venture investment amounted to 69 deals worth US$662 million during the same period last year. The biggest deal came from a US$430 million contract for Beijing-based Oak Pacific Interactive to [...]

A Chinese couple murdered in Newcastle a week ago may have been involved in a range of internet scams, reports the BBC. The anger of people losing out from the scams could be a motive for the double murder. “Information passed to Northumbria Police includes details of adverts placed on UK-based Mandarin-language websites, recruiting [...]

Nothing for the faint-hearted - but some brave Laowais actually seem to have watched the whole thing. And communicated with their Daddies @ home in the meantime.
8:42 - CCTV Announcer: “The program we just saw described the ancient splendor of China. Now we’ll start to learn more about the splendor of today’s China.”
And what would the [...]

Little documented, Asia’s insurance sector has been growing rapidly ever since the region began opening up their markets to foreign players. The recent spate of terrorist attacks in Asia has further prompted many Asian countries to adopt insurance against terrorism.
Globalization is the key source which is bringing about an ‘irreversible transformation’ in the Asian insurance [...]
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I took a break and watched the first twenty or thirty minutes of the Beijing Olympics 2008 ceremony, on August 8. It was interesting to see those nightly pictures of the “Bird’s Nest” or Beijing National Stadium, and the city around. What struck me most was the inclusion of the army inside the stadium at [...]