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Know something about the PanAsian region that I don't know? That shouldn't be too hard considering the many …
The top 100 philanthropists in China gave away $1.8 billion over the last 5 years. None of it to me.
The top destinations:
1. education
2. social welfare
3. poverty reduction
Twenty seven people gave away more than 100 million …
There's a Chinese Billionaire Group That is Making an Offer to Buy Japan.
I couldn't believe this when I wrote it yesterday. And, I am still trying to get my mind wrapped around the idea.
It's true, …
What a happy day. Google loves PanAsianBiz again.
Yeah, what a not so funny April Fool's joke that is.
I live just a couple of miles from Google. That and $5 will get me breakfast at a …
Some 5.4% of Hong Kong's work force or 200,000 people work in the financial sector says Cha-Ching – not his real name. It's Chan Ka-Keung, Hong Kong's secretary for financial services and the treasury of …
Trade in China is already up this year over last year. Up a lot.
In Shanghai, foreign trade rose 20.3% year on year in the first two months of this year.
Exports were up 17.2%.
Imports were up …
Are the Olympics going to stink of smell like politics?
China's crackdown in Tibet (by some reports, some 80 people have been killed)…is it going to affect the Olympics?
There are an awful lot of people …
Just when you thought prices couldn't go up any more – our local cheap gas station is now selling the cheap stuff for $3.49/gallon, it was $2.99 not long ago.
China had seen the highest rise …
China has taken on would-be terrorists twice, that we know of, and won.
Can't imagine the country telling us of battles lost, but still.
An attack on a plane in the northwestern Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region was …
China has created 51 million jobs in urban areas in the last five years.
Still, it's not enough.
The employment situation is 'very severe.'
Bread lines, peasants being beggars, that sort of thing.
China's Labor and Social Security has …
