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News of a 25 year old committing suicide at Apple’s primary China supplier (Foxconn) has once again brought to the front burner the difficulties of managing outsourced operations, and the risk to the brand that these arrangements bring when improperly managed. It is a situation that sadly I believe could have been avoided, and that [...]

There was a time when the only coffee outfit was Starbucks, and its knock off SPR. Along Nanjing Road, the highest concentration existed with 5 stores between the Portman hotel and People’s park, and in total there were roughly 80 by the end of last year (as you can see from the map above). Over [...]

Following the launch of my recommended vendors list last month, I wanted to take a few minutes to update it with a few more and take the time to add a few vendors that I would recommend staying away from. New Additions to the Recommended Vendors 1) Visa in China There has been a lot [...]

1. Chengdu to become foreign-invested financial “fourth city”, with currently 8 foreign invested banks Recently, the Chengdu branch of Nanyang Commercial Bank (China) Limited opened to public, and the number of foreign-capital banks in the city has reached 8. According to the statistics, in counting the JPMorgan Chase and the Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi which are [...]

A lot of coverage recently has once again thrown China (the prosecutor) into the spotlight for charging Rio Tinto’s GM and 3 employees (The Innocents) with espionage. It is a situation that has gradually escalated from a period of concern (when no one knew what happened to the executives) to this recent statement from Australian [...]

Moving Shanghai’s daily commuters is no easy task, and as I have pointed out on a number of occasion, the metro system here is one of the most reliable there is… and becoming one of the most comprehensive. But on my way to my first meeting this morning, I was greeted by what appeared to [...]

- by Zhou Ji Ming Life among Beijing’s commercial office landlords these days is tough at the moment. With vacancy rates expected to climb above 25% during Q3 and average rents falling to below RMB 200 per square meter per month, landlords are facing potentially the toughest situation any landlords have faced since office rents [...]

TEDA AND ZTE AGRIBUSINESS COMPANY LIMITED SIGN AN INVESTMENT FRAMEWORK AGREEMENT On May 31, TEDA and ZTE Agribusiness Company Limited inked an investment framework agreement to co-establish the ZTE Agribusiness Tianjin Edible Oil and Bio-energy Industrial Base in the Nangang Industrial Park, with a total investment of 194 million dollars. The base will be comprised [...]