Category Archives: Business and Finance

Mobile Business in China – podcast

If you are like me, you have sat in restaurants and bars nursing your drink in awkward silence wishing you knew enough to join in the conversation about things called 3G and TD-SCDMA. If so, then you be pleased about … Continue reading

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China’s stock exchanges: world’s biggest source of capital

The Financial Times reports: China beats the world for IPOs The record-breaking initial public offering of Industrial and Commercial Bank of China has powered China’s stock exchanges ahead of those in the UK and the US as the world’s biggest … Continue reading

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Updated China video website list

A list of free online video portals in China – Chinese Youtube clones, many of them shameless ripoffs.

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Oriental Outlook: The dog-eat-dog tourism industry

From Oriental Outlook magazine (瞭望东方周刊), a feature on China’s cut-throat tourism sector, where profitability depends upon how badly guides fleece their charges.

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Will you be lucky next year?

Hong Kong 2007 calendar makes it to mainland newsstands. China sells gold pigs.

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Africa’s Silk Road

The World Bank’s ‘Private Sector Development Blog’ (catchy name that) has an entry about the China-Africa summit meeting at the beginning of the month: Beijing gussies up for South-South trade. The post contains links to a few relevant articles: NPR: … Continue reading

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Hard Hat Show: African Billboards of Beijing – Chinese subtitles

Here is the Chinese subtitled version of African Billboards of Beijing, hosted on Tudou: You can also see this video in English on Danwei.TV. See Danwei’s China and Africa category for more about Sino-African trade and relations. Sexy Beijing is … Continue reading

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Murdoch and blogs

Danwei’s mentor Rupert Murdoch is getting jiggy with blogs. Reuters reports: Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp., which is looking for a local partner as it aims to launch its popular MySpace Internet social network in China, is in early talks with … Continue reading

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Hard Hat Show: African Billboards of Beijing

The Sino-African Summit, attended by leaders and representatives of 48 African countries, concluded last weekend. The big meeting casued several days of tightened security, reduced traffic and frenetic diplomatic activity in Beijing. Plainclothes cops, military police and phalanxes of red-armband … Continue reading

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More Murdoch action in China

Yet another News Corp deal has been announced during Rupert’s current visit; the China Daily reports: China Mobile inks deal with News Corp US media giant News Corp on Saturday clinched a deal with China Mobile, the world’s biggest mobile … Continue reading

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