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For those of you who are willing to eat a little bitterness and gain some great experience and connections, the CBRC may have an opportunity for you. Looking to stock their pond, China’s Banking Regulatory Commission is now looking to hire for 15 positions: Financial crisis study News collecting Financial innovation supervision Wealth management supervision [...]

One of my best friend in Shangahi, Amena Lee Schlaikjer, agreed to sit down with me a few weeks back to discuss her adventures in Shanghai. It isn’t always easy, it isn’t always what it seems, you don’t always know everything.. and giving up is not an option. Part 1: High Hopes for Shanghai Part [...]

Good friend, and old China Hand, Jay Boyle of Expat CFO sat down with me last Friday to discuss due diligence in China. Having personally worked with Jay, what I always enjoyed from afar was the way he and his team can model  out financial information.  Whether it is a hotel in Ningbo,  a start [...]

It may seem like a no brainer in answering this question, but last week I was fed a question by a good friend who had been hearing that his friends were having trouble getting his employees from an F to a Z. In his email to me, he wrote: that the registered capital requirement for [...]

Was sent the recent UK Update, and it appears that clarifications have been made now. I should tell you that I have sent out several emails to AMCHAM, US Consulate, and US China Business Council. I have not heard back from the later 2, and AMCHAM is still working to get clarification. So. Before doing [...]

This Month, GOOD Magazine has put together a China issue where they have profiled a number of expatriates living in China in their article Strangers in a Strange Land. Having done our own series on Halfpats before, there are a lot of things that come through in this article about the future of expatriate professionals [...]

Real estate is Shanghai has been one of the most consistent topics of conversations in Shanghai for all of my time here. Lately, the market has been on fire as real estate agencies that were culled 2 years ago are now back in full force (I suspect the tanking equity market is driving flight to [...]

A few weeks ago, I wrote the post Notice: Chinese F Visas Cannot Be Renewed Past Olympics, and apparently I was wrong. Over the last 10 days or so, I have been fielding emails, Skypes, and phone calls from friends and readers about the pain in the butt that has become their extension process… and [...]