Category Archives: Business and Finance

Chinese air ticketing goes fully electronic

Posted on 2006-10-23 by Bill Zhang

Xinhua reported last week that the China Air Transport Association (CATA) has stopped providing paper flight tickets and hopes to eliminate them in China by the end of this year. In the meantime, airlines will continue using exisiting stocks of … Continue reading →

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GAPP and book price wars

Posted on 2006-10-18 by Joel Martinsen

GAPP calls a halt to a price war between two independent Beijing bookstores, but they don’t really listen.

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China Businesscast: Chinese Word of Mouth with Sam Flemming

Posted on 2006-10-16 by Robert Ness

Flemming talks of net stars and other commercial trends in the Chinese web How do you sort through the massive noise of millions of messages posted daily on Chinese web forums, aka BBS sites? Sam Flemming, CEO of CIC Data, … Continue reading →

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Google – Youtube: it’s all about search

Posted on 2006-10-14 by Jeremy Goldkorn

Koolhaas-hunting on Youtube: this Danwei video is a frequent search target Google’s recently-announced purchase of Youtube for the cool sum of 1.6 billion dollars has excited the chattering classes of the Internet. People are asking all kinds of things about … Continue reading →

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China Businesscast: Interview with Ogilvy

Posted on 2006-10-04 by Robert Ness

In this episode, I interview Debby Cheung and Johan Vakidis of the Shanghai office of Ogilvy, the international marketing, advertising, and public relations firm. Having just interviewed Vanessa Seow of PR company Weber Shandwick, this interview sheds more light on … Continue reading →

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No More Chinese Whispers
by James McGregor

Posted on 2006-09-26 by Jeremy Goldkorn

An article originally published in ‘The Wall Street Journal’ on China’s foreign policy and its interpretation in the west.

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by James McGregor

China Businesscast: China PR Expert Vanessa Seow

Posted on 2006-09-23 by Robert Ness

Vanessa Seow works in technology PR at the Beijing HQ of the multinational PR agency Weber Shandwick. She gives insight into what makes the Chinese PR industry different from PR anywhere else in the world. Listen Suscribe to China Businesscast … Continue reading →

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China Businesscast: TongTong.com

Posted on 2006-09-13 by Robert Ness

In this episode of China Businesscast, I interview Guy and Terrance, two of the co-founders of TongTong.com, a social networking site in China meant to bring globally minded people in and outside of China together. This episode brings insight on … Continue reading →

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Actress accuses CCTV director on blog

Posted on 2006-09-08 by Jeremy Goldkorn

Danwei Noon Report is a daily roundup of new and old media coverage about China from Chinese and English sources. Xiao Qiong’s not happy Yet another blog scandal Shanghai blogger Bingfeng reports on yet another blog scandal in which an … Continue reading →

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China Businesscast: Fritz Demopoulos, CEO Qunar.com

Posted on 2006-09-05 by Robert Ness

This episode kicks off a China Businesscast series on entrepreneurship in China. Fritz Demopoulos is CEO and co-founder of Qunar.com, a travel-focused vertical search engine. Fritz is a veteran China entrepreneur and has a lot of valuable insights about starting … Continue reading →

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