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Six Yuan to the Dollar: Would That Be Nice?
I read a blog by Richard Brubaker, Founder and Managing Director of China Strategic Development Partners. Rich's company is based in Shanghai, and in a recent blog he talked about the falling Chinese currency, the yuan renminbi. Rich had some interesting thoughts and I decided I'd point you to them. I agree whole-heartedly with his [...]
China to Use E-Stamps to Fight Spam? Maybe…
The idea has been floated and rejected in America a couple of times. Now the Chinese are considering e-stamps for email in China as a way of preventing SPAM. SPAM is a term commonly used to refer to unwanted junk email that is usually of a commercial nature. Internet regulators are pushing for a cyber-postal [...]
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 [...]
Two Ears. One Mouth
Starbucks, China World Trade Center 2 Chilling by the window 0946 hrs. Shanghai-based Yann Lombard Platet gives vociferous voice on ChinaTechNews to something I have been telling my clients for some time about running online campaigns on social networking sites. He says “just listen.” He’s right. He and I differ in our ideas of what [...]
China’s Ports to Play Fair.. with Each Other
In any developing economy, there is a feeling that one must take advantage of any opportunity. for China’s part money has flowed into nearly ever sector of the economy from domestic and foreign investors.. From a manufacturing perspective, the same mentality also exists. Manufacturers will cut to the bone to get business, and there are [...]
If You Think China is “Coming Out”… You’re “Coming Out” of a 3 Year Coma
This morning when I opened up the Shanghai Daily on my RSS, I found an article entitled Expo as China’s ‘coming out’ party, and had a moment of inspiration as I like Stan Abrams at China Hearsay am just a bit tired of China’s perceived “coming out party” . First, if there were going to [...]
Beijing
I almost went to Beijing this weekend, almost in the sense that Emma said “Let’s go to Beijing” and I said “OK!“, but then my boss said “Let’s work on Saturday” and I said “OK!“. So now I’m not going. Forgive me father, it has been 11 months since I came to Shanghai and I [...]
At the funfair! (Part I)
The thing with some people is that they do not respect the natural cycle of life. For every Spring there must be an autumn, for every snowflake, a sunbeam- for every death, a birth (unless loads of people die and no-one is born, like in Florida). In short, after a Friday night drinking binge, I [...]
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