Category Archives: Business and Finance

The many faces of the RMB

Links to pictures of Chinese money from 1949 to 2005.

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Business Briefs: Super Girl sponsors and Shanghai news

News from The China Perspective, including Mengniu’s jump to CCTV, KFC’s drive-thru window, and Shanghai’s international headquarters mecca.

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Business Briefs: Cheap underwear and super vision candy

Temperatures dropped sharply in Beijng this week, so it’s certainly welcome news that thermal underwear prices have reached record lows. For consumers, that is; major brands are not liking it too much. There’s shakeup in the candy sector as well, … Continue reading

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Business Briefs: Will housing prices drop? Has the chemical explosion hurt investment?

Has the “housing bubble” come to an end? This article is sponsored by The China Perspective Yahoo China’s been in the news fairly often recently now that Jack Ma, Alibaba’s outspoken chief, is running things. This week, though, it made … Continue reading

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Business briefs: fake chips and fake bird flu vaccines

Intel’s remarked chips. Business Briefs is a new weekly Danwei feature, sponsored by The China Perspective, a news service offering China market intelligence. The pages of the business press last week were abuzz with stinging indictments of Intel and its … Continue reading

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Internet curfew in Chongqing

New regulations in Chongqing to cut off Internet connections to web cafés after midnight.

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U.S. businessman kidnapped or arrested in Sichuan?

The New York Times has published a fascinating article about American citizen David Ji whose American electronics distribution company got into a dispute with Changhong, Sichuan’s gargantuan TV manufacturer. Changhong claims that Ji’s company owes them a lot of money; … Continue reading

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Top 10 Chinese business stories for September

Dae Jang Geum: the hit Korean drama, a moneymaker despite questionable historical accuracy. From The Economic Observer‘s monthly Academe supplement for October comes this list of September’s top-ten events in the world of commerce. Each month The Economic Observer Research … Continue reading

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Renting out Golden Week for 5000 RMB

Shortly before this year’s National Day holiday, domain name speculator Li Weike registered the domain 黄金周 (Golden Week) with the intent of turning it into profit. Yiyou, a travel agency based in Yunnan, offered him 50,000 yuan for the domain, … Continue reading

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Simplicity: Baidu vs. Google

Baidu claims to have a core value of simplicity. Keso compares its early home pages to Google’s much simpler pages of the same era.

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