All Roads Lead to China:

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 [...]