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Art and wealth management will dominate Shanghai rich – Rupert Hoogewerf
In Shanghai 370,000 residents are millionaires in US-dollars in 2012, and although most still get their fortune from real estate Rupert Hoogewerf of the Hurun Rich list estimates art and wealth management will take over as sources for wealth in the city, he tells the Jing Daily.Read More →
A government-organized slowdown – Shaun Rein
The latest data from China signal a slowdown of the economy. Is this the hard landing, economists have been predicting? No, says business analyst Shaun Rein in CNBC. This is exactly the scenario the central government has been wanting to see.Read More →
Most of Shanghai’s rich are business owners – Rupert Hoogewerf
The number of rich and super rich is growing fast in Shanghai, tells Hurun founder Rupert Hoogewerf in The China Daily. But unlike their global colleagues, Shanghai rich tend to be business owners, and to a lesser degree real estate developer.Read More →
China Speakers Bureau Hangouts start
At the China Speakers Bureau we will start using Google+ Hangouts-on-air as a platform for China debates. COO Maria Korolov interviews Fons Tuinstra on how this tool will develop in the months to come.Read More →
Watch out, while picking a business angle – William Bao Bean
Getting a business angle, an entrepreneur who provides your start-up with first capital, is hard enough in China, tells William Bao Bean of SingTel Innov8 in Tech in Asia. You should avoid especially the famous ones.Read More →
China found its public sphere in the internet – Kaiser Kuo
In a decade the number of internet users in China grew from 22 million to 513 million, creating the country’s first publish sphere ever, cause great changes in society, tells Baidu communication director Kaiser Kuo to China.org.Read More →
Pollution, food safety haunt China consumers – Shaun Rein
Author Shaun Rein of “The End of Cheap China: Economic and Cultural Trends that will Disrupt the World” hits the famous Dylan Ratigan show on his book tour in the US and explains how pollution and food safety haunt Chinese citizens more than a regime change. US consumers will have to pay higher prices.Read More →
Angry Taiwan delays upgrade F-16’s – Wendell Minnick
Rising costs of the upgrade of its fleet of F-16’s have caused tension between Taiwan and the US, as the angry Taiwanese decided to postpone the already long-delayed agreement, writes defense expert Wendell Minnick in Defense News. Read More →
A wedding in modern China – Zhang Lijia
Weddings are a nice and festive mirror of a society. Celebrity author Zhang Lijia went to the wedding of her sister’s son and describes the day-long extravaganza on her weblogRead More →
Weetabix has chances in China – Ben Cavender
Shanghai Food, China second largest food producer, bought a controlling stake in Weetabix, the iconic British cereal producer. Ben Cavender of the China Market Research (CMR) believes there is room in the China market for the foreign food producer,Read More →
China’s innovation is lagging – Bill Fischer
China’s innovating power is not really moving forward, tells IMD-professor and author Bill Fischer in the Shanghai Daily. “You need also the ability to commercialize ideas as well.” Bill Fischer: My sense is that, if I was to do the ranking myself, what I would say is that China’s rankingRead More →
The history of Chen Guangcheng – Zhang Lijia
Author Zhang Lijia was one of the first who helped to write stories about the blind lawyer Chen Guangcheng for Western media. Like the story in 2002 for Newsweek, reposted on her weblog. “We have to fight for our rights ourselves.” Read More →