Archive for October, 2006

Jackie Chan’s 9 Insights on Chris Tucker

Hollywood is big business. It has been for a long time and will contine to be so for some time to come.
Though I am not really a Hollywood fan, I am a Jackie Chan fan. The man has amazing ability even…

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Posted by Bill Belew on October 13th, 2006 in Asia News | No Comments

China’s 2006 Trade Surplus Already Surpasses 2005 Total

China’s four biggest trade partners are the European Union, the United States, Japan and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations
Those four groups are also the biggest contributor to another …

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Posted by Bill Belew on October 13th, 2006 in All about China, Business in China, China, Doing Business in China, chinese | No Comments

Chinese Super Girl Monument Causes A Stir

A four meter high monument, in the style similar to those of revolutionary heroes, was unveiled at a Beijing art festival.
The monument depicts two of China’s "Super Girls" – Li …

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Posted by Bill Belew on October 13th, 2006 in All about China, Business in China, China, Doing Business in China, chinese | No Comments

China’s Oil Reserves One-tenth filled with Russian Oil

China is one-tenth of the way towards filling its strategic oil reserves. Three million barrels of Russian crude oil has been stored over the past two months.
The full mark is set at 32.7 million barr…

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Posted by Bill Belew on October 13th, 2006 in All about China, China Business, Doing Business in China, Russia | No Comments

Chinese-Americans Think China and Hong Kong Fashion Help Improve Their Image

A poll was conducted of 354 Chinese Americans who were chosen at random nationwide by from a surname list.
They were asked a series of questions about their attitudes toward China and their views on C…

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Posted by Bill Belew on October 12th, 2006 in All about China, Business in China, China, Chinese-Americans, Doing Business in China | No Comments

5,000 Participants 50 Years or Older Enter Web Page Design Contest in Shanghai

Shanghai Internet Services Association has created a contest for, um, elderly citizens – 50 years or older – (Ouch!) in Shanghai designing web sites.
15% of Shanghai’s 17 million res…

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Posted by Bill Belew on October 12th, 2006 in All about China, Business in China, China, Doing Business in China, chinese | No Comments

China Announces Academic Journal Search Engine

For a cost of $43 million U.S. dollars China has completed a national web project that allows Netizens to search the contents of 6,642 periodical (abt. 99% of Chinese academic periodicals). "If y…

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Posted by Bill Belew on October 12th, 2006 in All about China, Business in China, China Business, Doing Business in China, chinese | No Comments

China’s Wealthiest Individual is a Woman – Zhang Yin

China’s wealthist person is Zhang Yin – 49 year old founder of the Nine Dragons Paper Co.
She created her company by recycling paper from the U.S. and turning it into packing material.
It…

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Posted by Bill Belew on October 12th, 2006 in All about China, Business in China, China, Doing Business in China, chinese | No Comments

DPRK Says Future Nuclear Tests Depend on the U.S.

The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea says it will consider U.S. policy toward them – financial sanctions and such – to determine whether or not they will conduct future nuk…

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Posted by Bill Belew on October 12th, 2006 in All about Japan, Doing Business in Japan, Japan, Japan business | No Comments

20 Best Blogs About Business in China

On September 22nd I listed what I thought were the 12 Best Blogs About Business in China.
I asked for and received feedback, dug deeper, searched other rankings, lists, and compared Technorati and Ale…

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Posted by Bill Belew on October 12th, 2006 in All about China, Business in China, China, Doing Business in China, chinese | No Comments