The fourteen-year old Hurun China rich list has this week also launched into India, announced its founder Rupert Hoogewerf. The important milestone was widely reported in India’s media. Read More →
What if you meet somebody who says he wants to end his life. Author Zhang Lijia recalls meeting a suicidal security guard at evening and writes a beautiful account of a sad love story on her weblog.Read More →
China is under attack in the weeks ahead of US presidential elections, yesterday as the US Congress panel released its report on telecommunication giants Huawei and ZTE. Business analyst Shaun Rein tells at The Takeaway is he concerned about the growing hysteria.Read More →
Getting things right for China’s ultra rich is becoming an art in itself. Hurun rich list founder Rupert Hoogewerf tells on the website Elite Traveler a few of the secrets on this most lucrative market – if you get things right.Read More →
China’s rich saw much of their capital shrink over the past year, the 14th Hurun rich list disclosed yesterday. But looking at the past decade, wealth still has boomed tremendously, adds Hurun founder Rupert Hoogewerf in Reuters.Read More →
Pictures of a new stealth fighter, the J-21 and/or J-31, showed up on time for the visit of US Defense secretary Leon Panetta to China, writes defense specialist Wendell Minnick in Defense News.Read More →
Howard French – former foreign correspondent in Shanghai and photographer – portraits in his new book Disappearing Shanghai: Photographs and Poems of an Intimate Way of Life – the characters he met in Shanghai between 2002 and 2008. The Asia Society interviewed him about his approach.Read More →
The debate on whether China is the land for great opp0rtunities for foreigners, or the place they increasingly leave behind, made it into the state-owned Global Times. Long-term Beijing resident and economic analyst Arthur Kroeber still see why the country attracts foreign entrepreneurs.Read More →
China’s luxury goods market might still be going strong, despite a dip in the country’s growth. But previously popular brands like Burberry are losing traction, tells retail analyst Paul French in the Huffington Post. But there is still hope.Read More →
The top-5 most-read stories for August 2012. And the background of our Weekly China Hangout, starting in September. The start of a TV show with China debates.Read More →
China’s internet has been abuzz about the unfair treatment China got at the London 2012 Olympics, in the eyes of many Chinese. Author Zhang Lijia takes at her weblog a step back and tries to figure out what was going on.Read More →
Despite softening growth figures, China’s economy will see a soft landing, tells business analyst Shaun Rein the BBC. That is, unless the Eurozone collapses, then the country will face serious trouble.Read More →