Jasper Becker by Fantake via Flickr Relatively large changes in our top-10 of most-sought speakers at the China Speakers Bureau for September, compared to August. At least four newcomers, although the top-2, Shaun Rein and Kaiser Kuo remain unchallenged.Highest newcomer is the respected China-author Jasper Becker who appears on theRead More →

Annette Nijs by Fantake via Flickr The summer is drawing to a close, the first full summer we have been in business as a speakers bureau. That means that after a pretty lazy month, requests are hitting our mailbox again, including the first few panic calls for as early asRead More →

Zhang Lijia at Chateau deLavigny by Fantake via Flickr Zhang Lijia, the author of “Socialism Is Great!”: A Worker’s Memoir of the New China, is the highest runner up in the most-sought list of July 2009, is the biggest mover of the month, although she moved only from the thirdRead More →

Shaun Rein by Fantake via Flickr Google’s growth in China is not likely to be hurt by the recent porn brawl it had with China’s internet authorities, says analyst Shaun Rein in PC World. The US search engine got itself into hot water as it was accused of facilitating searches forRead More →

Image via Wikipedia When a Chinese company who never build a car bought the Hummer from GM, one of the largest problems of the Detroit car giant, many predicted huge problems. But Shaun Rein tells Forbes he sees also some positive sides on the deal. The assumption is that theRead More →

Zhang Lijia by Fantake via Flickr At the global offices of the China Speakers Bureau we have been doing some bean counting again and have made our monthly top-10 of most-sought speakers. (Here you can find the April 2009 one.) Some fast upwards movements in positions, although more than halfRead More →

Sam Flemming by Fantake via Flickr In April we see at the China Speakers Bureau , compared to our March listing, a remarkable set of newcomers in the top-10 of most sought speakers for the month, although some have been there in previous months. Only the first four are maintaining aRead More →

Paul French by Fons1 via Flickr Retail sales of luxury products in Shanghai have remained strong, tells retail analyst Paul French the Financial Times in an article about the Japanese shopping mall Takashimaya, who decided to open stores in Shanghai, despite the global economic crisis.Paul French: “There are still aRead More →

Andrew Leung by Fons1 via Flickr It is that time of the month again and at the global offices of the China Speakers Bureau we have been compiling the top-10 of most sought speakers. Most surprising and highest newcomer is professor Andrew Leung from London, who joined us last monthRead More →

Zhang Lijia by Fons1 via Flickr Challenging times with limited financial resources? Getting a key-note speaker in from overseas can be very expensive. Speakers’ fees go up and – although flying has become a tidbit cheaper – flying your speaker in business class adds still to the costs.At the ChinaRead More →

Zhang Lijiaby Fons1 via FlickrZhang Lijia became in December the fastest mover among our corp of speakers at the China Speakers Bureau. She is, at the second place, actually the first to really come close to Shaun Rein, who retains the first place.Jasper Becker – who only joined our serviceRead More →

Shaun Rein, most-sought speaker Today we launched the first edition of our China Speakers Bureau newsletter. You can look at it here. Theme of this month: what are our leading voices saying about the position of China in the ongoing economic crisis. As you might imagine: they have very diverseRead More →