Category Archives: Business and the Economy

Hotel customer info vulnerability “threatens family harmony”

Posted on 2013-10-16 by Eric Mu

WooYun.org, a Chinese Internet security forum that publishes information about security loopholes, recently issued a warning about the data security of hotel records. Such information — including customers’ IDs, room numbers, and check-in and check-out times — is stored on the … Continue reading →

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Courier companies exposed selling delivery addresses to telemarketers

Posted on 2013-10-16 by Rachel Wang

Economic Information Daily 经济参考报, a business newspaper managed by Xinhua News Agency, published an investigative story on  the business of selling names, addresses and contact information extracted from the addresses of senders and recipients on courier packages packages. Courier (kuaidi 快递）services have … Continue reading →

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It’s the law: Chengguan in Guangzhou now have to be nice

Posted on 2013-10-15 by Barry van Wyk

Better late than never: new regulations in force from today in Guangzhou require all chengguan in the city to be courteous in the enforcement of their duties and to use words like “please”, “thank you” and “I’m sorry”. The new regulations, … Continue reading →

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Infant formula wars: “National team” just a cheap gimmick

Posted on 2013-10-15 by Rachel Wang

On October 14, Caixin’s New Century weekly magazine 财新《新世纪》周刊 published a cover story entitled “The milk formula war”. The article argues that the “milk formula national team” (奶粉国家队), as a campaign launched by the government to hype certain local infant formula companies … Continue reading →

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Pleasant Goat too violent?

Posted on 2013-10-14 by Jeremy Goldkorn

A Tom and Jerry style animated cartoon featuring a heroic goat who constantly saves his fellow goats from a wolf who has gastronomic designs over the members of Goatville, Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf (喜羊羊与灰太狼) seems an unlikely target for the … Continue reading →

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Nongfu Spring water: How food safety scandals affect a company’s image

Posted on 2013-09-02 by Danwei

This article is by Chris Marquis, Associate Professor at the Harvard Business School and Zoe Yang, Research Associate at the Harvard Business School. You can find more of their work on Civil China. Food safety is one of the most serious … Continue reading →

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Portrait of a Chinese P2P lender

Posted on 2013-08-09 by Jeremy Goldkorn

Peer to Peer (P2P) lending websites allow users to lend and borrow money directly to and from each other. China’s first P2P lending website, PPDai.com, launched in 2007. As of 2013, there are scores of websites that operate as online brokers … Continue reading →

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Beijing to add charging stations, e-taxis and subsidies

Posted on 2013-05-23 by Barry van Wyk

This post is an extract from the Danwei Bulletin, a briefing of company and market news collected from the Chinese news and social media before the information appears in English language reporting and sent to premium subscribers of the FT’s China Confidential and … Continue reading →

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AQSIQ: Excessive lead detected in L’Occitane exfoliant

Posted on 2013-05-17 by Barry van Wyk

This post is an extract from the Danwei Bulletin, a briefing of company and market news collected from the Chinese news and social media before the information appears in English language reporting and sent to premium subscribers of the FT’s China Confidential and … Continue reading →

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Whitening toothpaste safety scare

Posted on 2013-05-10 by Barry van Wyk

This post is an extract from the Danwei Bulletin, a briefing of company and market news collected from the Chinese news and social media before the information appears in English language reporting and sent to premium subscribers of the FT’s China Confidential and … Continue reading →

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