As I have told my younger Chinese friends who are looking to start their own sport companies, I recommend trying to get into sports that are very popular outside of China that are currently not popular here (e.g., Cricket, Rugby, Ice Hockey). See the Cricket story below. Thanks to James M and Sinocism for links.
- Vote: Should China Scrap Its Holiday Schedule? from The Wall Street Journal (easiest solution would be to allow companies and institutions to celebrate whatever and whenever they wanted. the current system never made sense to me, wasn’t really a “holiday” or “vacation” if you have to make up those days after you get back)
- Hopping mad: Crickets fight it out at China’s championships from Reuters
- China’s Cram School from Hell from Foreign Policy (depending on the province you take the test in, the higher the score you need to get into the C9. for example, a decade ago if you took the gaokao in Shaanxi, you would need to get a 632 to get into Fudan and a 638 to get into Tsinghua.)
- Chinese Tourists Take Big Spending to Maldives from The Wall Street Journal (here is the companion video)
- Can’t Buy Them Love: China’s Heiresses Struggle With Singleness from The Wall Street Journal
- Henan bans foreign names from Global Times
- Chinese want to sell British milk at £3 per litre from The Telegraph (that’s more than 3x the price locals typically pay)
- Alibaba to transform China’s ‘e-conomy’ with $500 billion marketplace from Reuters (monster, i do not have any position in the company but recommend that everyone should get shares during its IPO)
- India-China visa row erupts ahead of PM Singh’s visit to Beijing from Reuters
- Notes on a Scandal: Corruption at China’s Top Classical Music Academies from that’s magazine
- Youku Tudou Signs VOD Agreement With FremantleMedia from China Tech News
- Jiangsu court jails sellers of ‘cooking oil’ made from gutter waste from South China Morning Post
- The Secret Factor in China’s Housing Bubble? Mistresses from The Atlantic (purportedly 200,000 mistresses with apartments in beijing)
- China’s Black Box For Blockbusters Riles Hollywood Studios from Forbes
- For Some NYU Students, A Sweet Deal To Study … In Shanghai from NPR
- China’s South-North water diversion middle route from The Guardian
- You are falling short of your ‘crazy quota’, Zhengzhou officials warned from South China Morning Post