Category Archives: Business

World Link collapsed language school case in court

The China Daily has an update about a collapsing language school mentioned in Danwei’s earlier report on foreign run schools and their fleeing bosses.

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Buy an iPad in Beijing?

At a time when Apple’s iPad is all the rage among its Western followers, how do Chinese customers respond?

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The Google pullout

Sinica is a new podcast series put together by Kaiser Kuo and hosted by PopUp Chinese, a Chinese language learning website and podcast series. The first episode features yours truly, together with Kuo and Bill Bishop, known to China Twitter … Continue reading

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Google to develop geothermal energy in China

Thanks to a source at Ha’erbin Institute of Technology, Danwei can reveal what Google now plans to do with their Beijing and Shanghai offices, and the engineering talent that they have spent the last four years recruiting and developing:

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Bankrupt schools and their fleeing foreign bosses

Why are so many foreigners fleeing China in the wake of language school bankruptcies?

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Soy sauce man III: Manager Zhang and the shopping guides

A story about Li, a Chinese university graduate who became a soy sauce businessman

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Xingtai: the city and the soy sauce man’s job

A story about Li, a Chinese university graduate who turned a soy sauce businessman

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The true story of a soy sauce man

A story about Li, a Chinese university graduate who turned a soy sauce businessman

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Chinese developer: Buy a house, get a wife for free

Jin Tai Cheng, a Beijing company, is offering a creative solution for prospective buyers at its “Ecological Bay” Villa project.

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Growth industries in 2009: gaming, e-commerce and government

Asia Business Leaders‘ senior editor Jean Chen (陈俊) talk about the economic recession at the end of 2008.

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