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Language and cultural barriers put pressure on large and small companies alike, but I would argue the economy is the main thing that affects the Chinese business practices that foreigners find the most jarring. Read more>>
Apr 15, 2009
Special Topic: Finding and Keeping Jobs in China Last week, I discussed the impact the global financial crisis will have on employees around China. I explained that in many fields the balance of power in recruitment has shifted from employee to employer. ...... Read More>>
Apr 08, 2009 Comments(0)
Photo: Baidu.com A year after retiring from the post of Vice Premier in the State Council of the Chinese government, 71 year old Zeng Peiyan has been called back from live a ‘hermit’ (a reference to the Classical Chinese tradition of retired ...... Read More>>
Apr 02, 2009
Your Services Will No Longer Be Required Apparently, about 40 to 50 teachers at one of the international schools in Suzhou will not be returning to teach in the Fall. “They asked the teachers what their plans were for next [academic] year,” a ...... Read More>>
Apr 01, 2009 Comments(0)
Over the past 6-8 months, China’s HR climate has been in a state of flux. For much of the past decade, the employment market here in the Middle Kingdom was a savage free for all with neither companies nor candidates bothering to take prisoners. ...... Read More>>
Mar 23, 2009 Comments(0)
There are quite few ways for foreigners in China to pick up a little cash – modeling, acting in commercials or movies, teaching, playing ‘the foreigner’ in business meetings, and voice recording. For voice recording you don’t ...... Read More>>
Mar 16, 2009
Photo: Han Lei 1. Once rights have been bought, you won’t necessarily know how to make money.2. Not being familiar with foreign markets and regulations.3. Not understanding how to do business with Westerners. Despite the economic crisis at the end of ...... Read More>>
Mar 13, 2009 Comments(0)
Special Topic: Finding and Keeping Jobs in China In the first segment of this interview - Contract work, visa intricacies, and the 183 day rule – An interview with Tim Burgess, pt 1 – we talked with Tim Burgess from Access Financial Counsel LLC ...... Read More>>
Mar 13, 2009
Photo: sHzaam Yao Ming has been making a living abroad now for several years and the boss of his team, The Rockets, has made a buck or two off Yao’s back with predicted NBA earnings for 2010 at 1.7 billion USD. With Americans certainly set to make a ...... Read More>>
Mar 12, 2009
I recall once local tax officials of a small city along China’s east coast being most disconcerted when they walked into a Western factory to find its equipment no longer in place, its operators no longer operating. Instead, tax officials found a long ...... Read More>>
Mar 06, 2009 Comments(0)
Special Topic: Finding and Keeping Jobs in China Photo by MK Media Productions Special Topic: China Visa Guide In these troubled times employment is on everybody’s minds and expats are no exception. While the job market for foreigners in China is ...... Read More>>
Feb 26, 2009 Comments(0)
With the Big Three US auto makers begging the US government to bail them out of bankruptcy, there have been many images on TV and in newspapers of American auto workers at the production line. I watched closely and unconsciously compared them with images of ...... Read More>>
Feb 19, 2009 Comments(0)
The internet is abuzz with recent news that Chris Devonshire-Ellis of China Briefing may have influenced movement in the Yuan-Dollar conversion rate by what is being described by Chinese governmental authorities on the China Banking Regulatory Commission ...... Read More>>
Feb 02, 2009
NAME: Madalena WongCOMPANY: Oracle Added ValuePOSITION: Founder and CEOEDUCATION: University of Hong Kong, BA SociologyIN HER HANDBAG: Purse, Pen, Nokia mobile phone, BlackBerry, Plane ticket With the economic downturn now a global one, many multinational ...... Read More>>
Feb 01, 2009
“They probably do have an Asian Barbie,” historian Iris Chang once said. What bothered her was the lack omission of an Asian Barbie from the 2000 Presidential Line. Chang, author of “The Rape of Nanking” died of apparent suicide in ...... Read More>>
Jan 07, 2009
Name: Mao Zhenhua Gender: Male Year of Birth: 1964 Degree: Doctorate Major: Economy Former Position: President of China Chengxin Credit Management Co. Ltd.Current Position: Director of the Institute for Economic Research, Renmin UniversityIndustry: Finance ...... Read More>>
Dec 22, 2008
Have you heard about L10N, G11N and i18n? L10N is abbreviation of ''Localization''(or spell as Localisation); there are 10 characters between first L and the last N. In similar, G11N refers to Globalization – 11 characters between G and N, and i18n ...... Read More>>
Dec 04, 2008
Whichever way you look at it, America is a pretty powerful nation. It has the world's most powerful economy, the world's most powerful military, and the world's most powerful government: Both in terms of soft power and hard power.... Read More>>
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