All Roads Lead to China:

1.Total revenue of Chengdu’s information industry estimated to break through 100 billion yuan According to the introduction of Chengdu Information Office, despite the influence of the earthquake last year, Chengdu’s information industry remained relatively rapid development, and the total annual revenue is estimated to break through 100 billion yuan, in which the software outsourcing export [...]

5 years ago when Maoming rd was a still bit of Bourbon Street in Shanghai, the Blue Frog was the hub of activity. Essentially managed by Lance and Cotton, this bar (one of a handful still standing) developed a real following and over the last 5 years, the staff of that bar have come to [...]

With so much going on in China, and only a limited amount of bandwidth, I have created this weekly post to highlight articles that I feel are (1) important, (2) relevant, and (3) interesting. This week there are 3 articles that I have chosen to highlight as each are quite interesting, they are all relevant, [...]

The Shanghai Daily article Luxury retailers worst hit as spending cut>has a chart on consumer sentiment that everyone selling into should take some time with as things are not looking good for retailers Early on there was a hope that China’s consumers were going to be the consumers of last resort, and the Chinese government [...]

A while back I began to speculate that the first assets that “Chinese” would take up in mass would be foreign real estate assets. Initially, I confined this to the US market as I know banks were holding assets at very attractive prices, but as the economic downturn that can only be called cascading took [...]