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Just a quick note that I will be off for the next couple of weeks getting married to my wonderful fiance on a beach in Thailand. Have a good couple of weeks everyone! R

Recently found an excellent report from China Youthology called China’s Youth Trends and Business Implications where the authors took an approach I have yet to see through others in measuring the youth market here: Different from many consumer trends report, we understand the youth as ‘human beings’, rather than merely as consumers and shoppers. In [...]

When news of the passing of China’s new postal law held up China Post’s monopoly on express documents and small packages, it was clear that there would be groups – foreign and domestic – that were going to be scrambling to develop a work around. It is an issue that many foreign firms have been [...]

1. Qionglai and French Glon Group signed strategic agreement On April 23rd, Europe’s biggest meat processing company – Group Glon of France and Qionglai city formally concluded the strategic cooperative partnership. According to the agreement, the 5 year-time from May 1st of this year to May 5th of 2014 is the first phase of cooperation, [...]

One of the industries that has been hardest hit by the economic downturn has been the logistics industry, and whether it is ships parked in HK Harbor or trucks parked on the side of the road, there is not doubting the fact that this industry is fully tied to how quickly the global economy can [...]

Without turning into a Chicken Little, or be called out as an alarmist, I would like to put forward a simple question to readers. Are you China Operations Ready for H1N1? Do you have a plan in place for the possibility (no matter how remote) of H1N1 spreading in China, and more importantly, the actions [...]

With my post earlier this week graphically showing China’s recent export trajectory, the news that April 2009 saw a 33% Y-o-Y dropmay suggest we have yet to truly turn the corner. Not only is it 5% more than expected by analysts, it is the first month in the last 3 where the number has eroded [...]