Category Archives: Business and Finance

Chery car sales to hit 1 million

Reuters reports: China Chery sales to hit 1 million by 2010: media DaimlerChrysler AG’s partner in China, Chery Automobile Co., said its annual sales would rise to a million automobiles by 2010 from just over 305,000 last year, Xinhua news … Continue reading

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Farming out the annual success story

Writer calls up a company offering to produce annual reports for other companies.

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China Businesscast: Mobile Marketing

Continuing China Businesscast’s series on the mobile space in China, David Turchetti is founder and CEO of 21 Communications, a service provider that designs and carries out mobile marketing campaigns for consumer brands in China. Mobile marketing in China had … Continue reading

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Chinese authors ranked by income, sort of

Chinese authors are ranked according to total sales multiplied by cover prices. Yu Qiuyu is on top with 14 million yuan in royalties.

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eBay China to form joint venture with TOM?

Chinese IT blogstar Keso has published an email (in English) from one of his readers that includes what are apparently draft press releases that have not yet been released. The basic content of the email is that eBay and TOM … Continue reading

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China Businesscast: Mobile Space in China

In the second part of our series on the mobile space in China, your correspondent interviews Richard Robinson, CEO of Dada Asia. Richard makes a case for why entertainment applications are the most compelling in the mobile business. Aside from … Continue reading

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Musings about money

A free exhibition requires ID to buy a ticket, but a scalper’ll give you one for 10 kuai. No one wants to run free schools. Shanghai gives 2.5 yuan a month to parents of only children.

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Good news from Africa

The Economist has published a story about the mobile phone business in Africa: Out of Africa A new kind of telecoms operator is evolving in Africa and the Middle East That mobile phones are transforming economic and social life in … Continue reading

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GAPP official: no public listings for newspapers

Mure Dickie of the Financial Times interviewed Long Xinmin, a “minister at the press and publishing administration” who confirms that GAPP is against newspaper groups raising capital from the market. Nothing to do with the news you understand, it’s all … Continue reading

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Medical ads in China – restrictions

Xinhua reported yesterday that China has revised its regulations on medical service advertisements in an attempt to put a stop to false and misleading advertising on all media. The action against medical ads has been going on for some time, … Continue reading

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