2013

Some opportunities around for real estate developers in the new free trade zone being developed in Shanghai.  And if you

According to Chasing the Chinese Tourist Yuan from The Wall Street Journal: But in the aggregate, Chinese tourists have now

A few stories from the past couple of days.  The free-trade zone mania seems like a positive trend, here is

If you want to run a standardized test taking center in Hong Kong or South Korea, you could probably make

As I have told my younger Chinese friends who are looking to start their own sport companies, I recommend trying

This is a combination of news from the last two days as well as the first days of the summer. 

Because the business news cycle was very slow in China this past summer, many of these links are a couple

Mostly China-related news from the past couple of weeks.  Special thanks to James M, Michael T and of course Sinocism.com.

I had lunch today with a former colleague of mine at the American Chamber of Commerce in Shanghai.  He noted

According to a recent USA Today report: Early next year, China will replace Canada as the global coffee giant’s second-largest

From The Economic Observer this past week according to Akira Mizutani of Yaskawa Electric Corporation: “The total sale of robots

A couple weeks ago I had dinner with a large group of IT/engineers in eastern Shanghai and was fortunate to

This past spring I interviewed Matt Garner, a friend and expert on Chinese social media and e-commerce.  I’d like to

My friend Mark DeWeaver (who wrote the Foreword to my book) has penned a couple of interesting op-eds recently both

A few weeks ago I went to Ocean World near Zhongshan Park in Changning district.  It was a fairly new

While there is a plethora of bearish news there may be opportunities for real-estate agents in the US (and elsewhere)

If you’re an experienced bond manager perhaps you may find new opportunities in Shandong and Jiangsu (see the last link). 

A bit of bearish news in the media this week, lots of challenges for sure.  Thanks to Michael and Sinocism

A few notes of interest: if you have a bit of experience in the telecom industry firms like Huawei and

It would be interesting to see if Google penalized the last link edition for the Roman numerals that just so

Midway in pursuing my grad studies years ago, a friend of mine, Michael Ewens, convinced me to switch from Bloglines

Two areas of potential opportunity mentioned in the links: if you are an expert or veteran of the food and