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19 Dec 08
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Oasis: Hong Kong's Budget Airline Crippled By Costs, Halts Flights With jet fuel rising to new highs at $137 a barrel, Hong Kong's only budget airline had to close down after only 17 months in operations, according to Bloomberg. Despite being financially-challenged in Hong Kong, Asia's third largest airport hub,... |
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08 Apr 08
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Steven Colbert On The Olympics Boycott |
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05 Apr 08
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Only In America Will A Pregnant Transgendered Man Thomas Beatie Be Treated With Respect The title says it all. Not only is Thomas Beatie the buzz of the internet world, he's also respected by one of the most powerful celebrities in media, Oprah Winfrey. According to Yahoo, Beatie, a resident of Oregon, was born a woman but decided 10... |
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03 Apr 08
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Star And Rain Education Institute For Autism: One Chinese Mother's Response To Autism Today is the world's first Autism Awareness Day, proclaimed United Nation's Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon. He called on every country to raise awareness of autism and respond to the needs of autistic children and their... |
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02 Apr 08
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This Week In China: Olympic Flame, Ethanol Cars And Tibetan Suicide Bombers The "journey of harmony" has begun. China needs to spread its message of peace and cooperation by touring the Olympic torch in and around Lhasa. The flame is set for a 130-day tour within China and around the globe before setting foot back in... |
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01 Apr 08
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Top 10 Reasons Why An American Is Like A Chinese If you’re an American and enjoy living in your capitalist, laissez-faire economy, then I have a holiday choice for you: consider China. Why? There is more similarity between the average Chinese and the average American than you would like to... |
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01 Apr 08
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Will Tata Lead The Indian Automobile Industry To A New High...Leaving Chinese Competitors Behind? Just as Tata Motors' purchase of Jaguar and Land Rover last Wednesday was about to become a moot topic, I read something that sparked my interest in the topic. According to this article by an expat in Mumbai, the $2.3 billion invested last week... |
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30 Mar 08
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Cultural Clash In Toronto: Chinese Riot Turns Violent As Tibetans Protest If you've visited Canada before, you'll know that Toronto and Vancouver are filled with Chinese immigrants. Lots of them. Therefore it's not exactly a surprise that a group of Chinese students decide to rally on the streets against Tibetans.... |
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30 Mar 08
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More Condoms In Beijing Hotels: A STD-Free Olympics Seems like the Chinese government wants to contain the spread of sexually transmitted diseases ahead of the Olympics, before diseases once again spread too far and wide to challenge the government for yet another cover up. According to the... |
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29 Mar 08
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In Case You Haven't Heard: China's New Enterprise Income Tax Law 2008 In case one of my readers here is interested in starting a domestic business in China, I happened to stumble upon the new income tax rate for corporations, effective Jan 2008. Apparently this is useful information, says Pacific Epoch, although I think... |
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29 Mar 08
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Hong Kong Rugby Sevens Once Again A Go Sooner or later, the rugby sevens will have to select a larger venue, according to the tournament organizers. And Hong Kong had better build a larger one, just for this event. The annual Hong Kong Rugby Sevens is once again a mega-party for rugby fans,... |
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29 Mar 08
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Chinese Milk Prices To Rise, But Not Coming From Mengniu, Yili According to Reuters, the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) approved Shijiazhuang Sanlu Group (SSG) to raise milk prices yesterday. SSG's subsidiary, Bright Dairy & Food Co., is the third-largest milk producer in the country, after... |
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29 Mar 08
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Chinese Food In The United States: Good Chinese Food Hard To Find There's a Chinese takeout on the street where I live that serves General Tso's Chicken. In fact, all Chinese resaurants in this area serve some sort of General Tso's Chicken. Now I have to ask, what the heck is General Tso's Chicken... |
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29 Mar 08
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Could China And Alibaba Be The Last And Final Hurdle For Microsoft's Courtship of Yahoo? All the analysts thought they had every scenario planned out, from rejections to counter offers, but perhaps no one expected this: China, of all places, is expected to have a regulatory role in Microsoft's takeover of Yahoo! How so? The story begins... |
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28 Mar 08
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"Father Of Hong Kong Democracy" Martin Lee Quits Politics Help! Martin Lee is quitting politics before 2017, when Hong Kong can "possibly" elect its own Chief Executive. A long-time advocate of democracy and, more recently, direct elections for the Chief Executive and Legislative Council, Martin Lee... |
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28 Mar 08
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Hainan Airlines Had A Profitable 2007, Despite Recent Chinese Markets Setbacks As reported by Xinhua, China's fourth largest carrier, Hainan Airlines, said yesterday that its net profit quadrupled last year. Net income reached 651 million yuan, up from 166 million yuan in 2006, read the statement from the Shanghai Stock... |
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28 Mar 08
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Some Chinese Maps Perhaps? One Blogger Used Historical Maps To Prove Tibet A Part Of China Due to, well, the alarming rate at which everyone is concerned about Tibet (Western leaders and NGOs on human abuse, journalists on lack of information, Han Chinese on whether Tibet will gain independence soon), it seems like I have to dedicate yet... |
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27 Mar 08
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Pollution At The Olympics? Haile Gebreselassie, Justine Henin And Andy Roddick Withdraw According to the Shanghaiist, a few of the Olympic's high caliber athletes are pulling out (and nothing to do with Tibet, thank God). What they blame now is the pollution, the smog problem that engulfs Beijing 24/7. Marathon world record holder Haile... |
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27 Mar 08
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In Response To A Reader's Comments: China Is Just Bad, Bad, Bad! A recent comment on one of my entries caught my eye. Reader Ravi said the following: "let's all focus on stupid celebrity news [Edison Chen and Gillian Chung] and ignore the evils the chinese government is doing - supporting burma's military... |
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26 Mar 08
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Chinese Sovereignty Fund Does It Again: Buying Into Visa's IPO And Hoping For A Bargain Hopefully it won't be Blackstone all over again, thinks Gao Xiqing. With Visa's IPO barely a week old, China Investment Corp. (CIC), the state-owned forex reserve investment arm of the Chinese central bank, is dipping its hands in US equity... |
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25 Mar 08
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Some Renewed Happy Times For China: Taiwan Elects China-Friendly President Taiwan's President-elect Ma Ying-jeou is a breath of fresh air, at least for China and the US. For what has been an eight year nightmare (and no, we're not talking about the Bush Administration), Taiwan was under the hostile control of the... |
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25 Mar 08
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Angry Mobs In Tibet Violently Attacks Han Chinese Ahead Of Beijing Olympics Seems like I have a lot of catching up to do. After going on an Easter trip (minimal exposure to CNN) and peering into an introductory course on drop shipping, I saw 100 people dead in Lhasa. Yes, the violence has passed its climax and shops are returning... |
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14 Mar 08
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Bad Luck China: Snowstorms, Terrorists, And Influenza What bad luck China has experienced over the past month and a half. No, I'm not talking about Edison Chen. I'm talking about the massive snowstorms, the sporadic terrorism, and influenza. In case you haven't heard, millions of migrant workers... |
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13 Mar 08
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China And Global Warming First of all, I would like to ask all the dedicated readers of this blog (or if someone is just dropping by, this offer is open to you too) to help me fill out a survey on Global Warming. It's really quick (10 questions), no hassle and not a... |
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09 Mar 08
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China And Iraq Oil Resigning Deal Near Close |
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08 Mar 08
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Terrorists In...China? Australian Tourists Held Hostages In Xian In perhaps the most unfortunate event pre-Olympics, several Australian tourists were held hostage by a Chinese man armed with explosives in the northwest city of Xian, home to the famous Terracotta Warriors. At about 10am on Thursday, a lone man, believed... |
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06 Mar 08
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When iPhones Come Into China, HiPhone And MiniOne Will Be Waiting There is a lot of talk about Apple these days, and rightly so. At the company's annual shareholder's meeting, Chief Operating Officer Tim Cook said, "We will enter Asia with the iPhone in 2008. We will one day enter China, we're not... |
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04 Mar 08
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Hu To Visit Japan, China-Japan Relationship A New Beginning Forget poisonous dumplings, Diaoyu islands or even fictional textbooks on the Nanjing massacre; Sino-Japanese relations is here to stay. Or is it? Vice Foreign Minister Wu Dawai seems to think so, in his remarks to the First Session of the 11th National... |
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03 Mar 08
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Wi-Fi Nation: Jiading To Become China's First Wireless City Explaining to your boss that you can't get your work done because you couldn't find a wireless hotspot in China will become harder, especially if you happen to live in Shanghai. By May 2008, Shanghai's Jiading district will become the first... |
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01 Mar 08
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Safe Food At Olympic Village? US Olympic Team Doesn't Think So Last time I talked about the hype over the Olympic Village food menus serving all but Chinese food. Apparently, the New York Times reported that the US delegation and Olympic Committee had already arranged with its sponsors to ship prepared food to... |
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01 Mar 08
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To Continue Growth, China Must First Eliminate One Child Policy According to a recent census, China might 'get old before it gets rich' because the one child policy, a population control enforced in the 1970s that became the hallmark of Chinese social policy, led to a significant fall of the number of... |
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29 Feb 08
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Bridge Linking Hong Kong-Macau-Zhuhai To Begin Plans After Negotiation Agreed Upon Since Beijing gave the green light to build a bridge linking the three major Chinese cities in Pearl River Delta region, Hong Kong, Macau and Zhuhai, almost three years ago in 2005, financing negotiations completely stalled the planning and construction... |
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28 Feb 08
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Hong Kong: A Place To Find Fine Wines Of Great Value And Quality If you consider yourself a wine enthusiast or a beer lover, look no further for Asia's great wine hub. Starting yesterday, the Hong Kong government abolished excise duties on all alcohol except hard liquor, paving way for an expanding industry based... |
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28 Feb 08
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Chinese Corporate Bond Market: Standard Chartered And JP Morgan To Underwrite There is great potential in China's corporate bond market. While Chinese stocks and government bonds have expanded so far and so fast to the point of overheating the economy, the country's next fund-raising tool in line, Chinese corporate bonds,... |
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28 Feb 08
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Olympics Dream Shattered By Yao Ming's Tiny Fracture Despite Houston Rockets' 13 game winning streak and a record average of 22 points with 10.8 rebounds per game, the six-time NBA All Star center Yao Ming could not feel any worse. With only six months until the Beijing Olympics opening... |
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27 Feb 08
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Standard & Poor's: Chinese Banks Careless About Potential Credit Risk Crisis The world has a lending problem. If anyone has learnt anything from the credit crunch in America, it would be that financial institutions should lend carefully. Carefully with a capital C. Appearently that is not what Chinese lenders are taking into... |
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26 Feb 08
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A Leftist Foreigner In A Land Of Rightists When I first read this article, my first thoughts was a Mao-hugging foreigner exporting leftist ideologies back to the US. But I was wrong. Even having lived in Hong Kong, this phenomenon is hard to understand. When Ben Ross returned to America and... |
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26 Feb 08
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No More Plastic Bags In China As Largest Manufacturer Closes Down? How can the largest plastic bag manufacturer in China close down, I hear you ask. Well, like any other state-run company, competition and business environment moves faster than the company can turn around. In this case, Suiping Huaqiang Plastic Co. Ltd.,... |
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25 Feb 08
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Americans: China To Lead The World Within 20 Years In the latest published Gallup poll on American confidence, the gist of the survey was thus: many Americans believe that China is the world's leading economic power or will be within the next 20 years. Although less than half of all those surveyed... |
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23 Feb 08
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With Edison Chen's Retirement After The Sex Picture Scandal, Is Hong Kong Back In Business? Two days has passed since Edison Chen secretly (or not so secretly, depending on your point of view) creeped back into Hong Kong and held a press conference with 100 members of the press. Too bad that didn't even make headline news that night on... |
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21 Feb 08
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The Curse Of Beijing Olympics: Or Why Chinese Stock Market Will Crash Despite The Chinese Economy Yesterday I attended a seminar on what to expect of the Chinese economy and stock market in the coming year. Lucky to know, I wasn't the most pessimistic one there. There was a lot of talk about the bullish Chinese economy, the overheated stock and... |
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19 Feb 08
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With Fidel Castro Resigning, Cuba Looks To China For Future In the last 50 years, no one anticipated even the slightest change in the communist stronghold that belonged to Fidel Castro. Even with the fall of communism in Moscow and Berlin, nothing appeared to shake the reigning dynasty in Cuba, and nothing will in... |
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19 Feb 08
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The Spielberg Tragedy: Chinese Olympics Supporters Mock Hollywood "Spielberg said last week that his conscience would no longer allow him to work on the Olympics as an artistic consultant while Sudan's China-backed government carried out genocide in its western Darfur province." Steven Spielberg has risked... |
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18 Feb 08
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Love in the 21st Century: China's Love Letters Through The Ages As I mentioned a few days ago, Valentine's Day has changed a lot in Chinasince the Revolution. Yet love in general has changed. Massively. Whereas love in the 1950s stood for longing each other over poetic handwritten letters and traditional arranged... |
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17 Feb 08
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David Li Resigns From Hong Kong's Executive Council David Li, Chairman of the Hong Kong-based Bank of East Asia and a member of the Legislative Council, resigned from his post on the Executive Council of Hong Kong following pressure that he was accused of insider trading of shares of Dow Jones &... |
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15 Feb 08
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China To Boom From Buying And Consuming, In Addition To Selling And Exporting Up until now, there are two school of thoughts about how China's growth has been fueled over this decade.1. Exports generate much of China's growth, as Brad Setser never fails to mention.2. Domestic consumption has been the key driving force, as... |
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14 Feb 08
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6 Expensive Ways To Spend Your Valentine's Day In China It's Valentine's Day tomorrow. A big day for those with significant others waiting patiently at home for them after work, but just another day of heavy drinking and video games for others. Nonetheless, Valentine's Day has become a culturally... |
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13 Feb 08
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Kira With A New Gillian Chung Sex Video? Maggie Q Sex Pictures To Be Released? Or How Edison Chen's Sex Scandal Is Hurting Hong Kong Now in its 16th day, this strange, strange ordeal is far from settled. As a well-known blogger puts it: Apple Daily, perhaps Hong Kong's most liberal newspaper, has covered Edison Chen's sex scandal on its front page headlines for over 15... |
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11 Feb 08
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Top 3 Sources Of Luxury Car Into China Last year, China imported more than 139,000 sedans from across the globe, a 25% increase from the previous year. This is a total of more than $5 billion dollars in imported luxury cars. Although this is an enormous increase of 25%, in comparison, the... |
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09 Feb 08
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10 Most Popular China Stocks In America It has come to my attention that the search and sheer interest in Chinese stocks surged in October after China Digital TV (STV) was listed |
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