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Seed Article: Go West, Young Scientist
A big optimist on the potential of Western China, I was recently interviewed for an article in this months SEED Magazine entitled Go West Young Scientist. The author has done a great job of looking at some of the other opportunities (outside of my traditional scope) and hope you will enjoy it. Source: All Roads [...]
Are You Long or Short on WalMart? – Part 2
As a follow up to my post in November Are You Long or Short on WalMart?, MSNBC is now reporting 35 percent of toys contain lead. According to this report, the Center for Health, Environment and Justice and groups in 9 states performed Tests on more than 1,200 children’s products, most of them still on [...]
Oh Christmas Tree.. Oh christmas Tree.. Oh?? What’s A Christmas Tree??
Just stumbled onto an article in the USA Today Home Depot at home in China for holidays (via Blogging Stocks) . To say the least, Home Depot had a difficult time getting into the market. they had several failed merger attempts, several management turnovers, and in the end paid a tidy sum to take up [...]
iTalki Launches Their New Site
Last year, I wrote a post entitled Websites: Online Tools for Chinese Language for readers who were in need of resources in learning Mandarin. Well, I am happy to announce that my good friends over at italki have literally just released their update, and it looks fantastic! One of the best platforms I have seen [...]
The China Way, Solar’s Future Potential, Pointing Fingers, and Expensing Lunches in China
“The” way vs “a” way (Japan v China dept) and James Fallows Turns On His Television Set James Fallows putes together an interesting of how things are done in Japan vs. China. In seeing the China picture, I just wonder if consuming jet fuel on a regular business qould qualify oneself for workers comp… and [...]
Nothing to see
regularly scheduled programming will return shortly Normally I’m the picture of health, but for the last couple of days I’ve been feeling rough. Far to ill to take photos or write anything vaguely amusing. In fact I haven’t really felt right since I slept overnight in that Chicken coop the other week. Stupid tequilla. Source: [...]
Around Jing-An
Things are getting Christmassy around the Jing-An area. They’ve have lights up outside the big shopping centres for the last week or so, and all of the restaurants in the food court are playing “Jingle Bells”, “We Wish You A Merry Christmas” and all that kind of mullarkey. It’s still a week or so before [...]
Taxi
Getting into a taxi in Shanghai is a bit like sitting in the first three rows at Seaworld- yes you might get wet (/ in a head-on collision with a Bongo truck) but surely that’s part of the fun? I take a taxi to work every day. Generally it’s the same guy every day, the [...]
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