Archive for the ‘China Business’ Category

China and India at Odds Over Mountain Territory

China and India have been at odds over some mountain territory since the two countried fought back in 1962.
India claims China took territory -abt 125,000 sq km (50,000 sq mi) – from them after …

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Posted by Bill Belew on November 15th, 2006 in All about India, China, China Business, India | No Comments

Fox Signs Exclusive Agreement with Zoke Culture Group

Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment has signed an agreement with Zoke Culture Group, China’s largest video distributor.
Fox will release some 100 movies from its library next year to China …

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Posted by Bill Belew on November 15th, 2006 in Business in China, China, China Business, chinese | No Comments

China’s Savings Drop For First Time in 5 Years

China’s household savings saw their first drop in more than five years.
Personal deposits fell by 7.6 billion yuan ($965 million) down to only 15.7 trillion yuan ($2 trillion).
Despite the fall…

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Posted by Bill Belew on November 15th, 2006 in Business in China, China, China Business, chinese | No Comments

Chinese Company Launches Love Boat for Rich and Good Looking

A Chinese cruise company is planning to launch a love boat up the Hangpu River of Shanghai.
Men must be worth $250,000 or 2 million Chineses yuan and the women must be good looking – but by who&…

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Posted by Bill Belew on November 15th, 2006 in China, China Business, Doing Business in China, chinese | No Comments

China Moves On Intellectual Property Rights Of Foreign Textbooks

Chinese universities have banned illegally copied foreign textbooks.
The Ministry of Education has given universities until the end of the year to clean up its act.
Chinese universities and students a…

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

Fat Happy Chinese Buy Luxury Cars from GM and Rolls Royce

General Motors Corp launched a new luxury Cadillac in China last week.
The car maker rolled out four models of the Cadillac Seville Luxury Sedan (SLS) in Shanghai.
The price tags range from 500,000 yu…

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

Beijing Olympics to be “Green Olympics”

China’s premier promised IOC Prez Rogge that China’s Beijing Games would be Green Games.
This press release was issued:
"The Beijing Organizing Committee for 2008 Olympic Games (BOCOG…

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Posted by Bill Belew on November 11th, 2006 in China, China Business, chinese | No Comments

China’s “One Dog” Policy

China announced that there are about 400 million less people in China now as a result of the ‘one child’ policy initiated in the 1970s.
For good or for bad, that’s a whole nation or …

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Posted by Bill Belew on November 11th, 2006 in Business in China, China, China Business, Japanese Products | No Comments

Company Plans To Name Sanitary Napkins after Yao Ming

Chinese like to use famous people and places to name their products.
The Great Wall Vases, or Forbidden City Eye glasses. Some companies went even as far as to name themselves after particulary strong…

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Posted by Bill Belew on November 10th, 2006 in Business in China, China, China Business, chinese | No Comments

China’s Environmental Watchdog Gives Bad Assessment – “Give us your pollution!”

China has suffered from pollution problems.
The environmental watchdog association says:
1. One-tenth of China’s arable land is damaged by pollution.
2. Each year, 12 million tons of grain are c…

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Posted by Bill Belew on November 9th, 2006 in Business in China, China, China Business, chinese | No Comments