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Dot Asia
According to the BBC, Asia is getting its own domain extension: dot asia. Remember the days when there were basically only half a dozen or so Internet domain extensions? Dot com meant that it was a commercial site. Dot org meant the site belonged to a non-profit organization. There was dot net for Internet providers [...]
Survival Tips and Bubbles…
Dan over at the China Law Blog looked at a list last week of the Top Ten China Business Survival Tips. I loved the post. I'm like Dan: lists are hard to resist because they tend to reduce information to manageable forms… The first item on the list struck me because we'd just talked about [...]
Leave Your Religion at Home…
I ran across an interesting blog post this week that could have an impact on your philosophy of business in China, maybe… The blog post was entitled Tough Times for Jesus in Xinjiang. It commented on some documents from China's Bureau for Ethnic & Religious Affairs; the documents were obtained by the China Aid Association, [...]
Noah Education Sets Terms for NYSE IPO
China education firm Noah Education Holdings Ltd. has set the terms for its upcoming NYSE IPO, according to the Associated Press. According to the AP, “Noah Education is selling 8.7 million ADS and a shareholder, Baring Asia II Holdings, is offering the remaining 1.1 million ADS. Each ADS will represent one ordinary share.” Noah Education [...]
A Venture Capital Bubble in China?
Min Zhu is the founder of Cybernaut, a Hangzhou-based venture capital firm. He lived through the Cultural Revolution in China, graduated from Zhe Jiang University with a degree in engineering, came to the U.S. in 1984 and studied at Stanford University, founded a couple of American firms in the Silicon Valley, including WebEx, and became [...]
Venture Capital Keeps Its Tax Break
Forbes is reporting that the U.S. Senate appears to have decided to ignore a proposal to raise taxes on venture capital profits. A proposal in the House of Representatives would change the rate at which carried interest is taxed. If that proposal became law, most of the profits from venture capital and private equity funds [...]
The Dream Blog: China Travel for Charity Education and Understanding
The Chinese believes in the superstition that if you talk about bad things, they will come true. However, the Dreamblogue's vision states that if you share your dream with others, you are willing it into being. The dream is to travel in 2007 to every mainland province in China. During this journey, the China Dreamblogue [...]
Ambow Newest Education Company to Get VC Funds in China
The China Daily News is reporting that Ambow Education Group has been promised $54 million in venture capital funds. That makes Ambow the largest recipient of VC funds so far in the education sector in China. The funding came through the Macquarie Bank Group. MBG has several investors for the project, including CID Capital, Cisco [...]
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