What might happen to retail? by Fons1 via FlickrOver at the China Herald we have started what is now called the “China Crisis Watch”, following the fallout of the global financial crisis on China, and the other way around. As the stock markets worldwide crash, the question what China isRead More →
William Bao Bean Stock markets worldwide keep on dropping and the effects of the global crisis are stilling heading for China. William Bao Bean of Softbank’s China&India holdings discusses with China Speakers Bureau’s principal Fons Tuinstra the possible fallout of the global financial shake-up on China. The worst disaster: tradeRead More →
William Bao BeanFons1 via FlickrThe stock markets worldwide continue their crash south and financial leaders gather in Washington to discuss further measure to stop the global financial crisis. But China has still been rather quiet, as if it is only marginally part of the economic downturn.How correct is that, whatRead More →
Image by Fons1 via Flickr Tom Doctoroff The China brand has suffered a severe set back through the milk melamine scandal, after the successful Olympics, writes Tom Doctoroff in the Huffington Post. Sixty thousand babies with kidney stones is cause tremendous damage, especially in China itself. In Europe and theRead More →
James Farrer Only up to a certain degree foreign expats and Chinese are mixing in what has now become one of the largest expat societies in the world, Shanghai, says sociologist James Farrer of the Sophia University in Tokyo.The Shanghai expats society has been changing greatly over the past fifteenRead More →
via WikipediaHolidays are coming to and end in China and the working life is resuming again. Since we are running a global service, we never really have a holiday, but we did have been a bit silent here: there was anyway hardly anybody to talk to. But now the GoldenRead More →
Bill Fischer IMD-professor and former CEIBS dean Bill Fischer has joined the China Speakers Bureau. Bill Fischer is a leading authority on business and China. Apart from being a gifted storyteller, he has real stories to tell.With his broad IMD-network he is able to tap into the larger companies, dealingRead More →
Richard Kuslan The financial downturn in the US has interesting side-effects. Richard Kuslan, lawyer, blogger and speaker at the China Speakers Bureau has been invited by the insurer-in-problems AIG to explain their position in Asia.Richard Kuslan reports at the Asiabizblog: The text clearly shows that AIG is seriously concerned aboutRead More →
Mark Schaub He still drinks Chinese milk, says lawyer and author Mark Schaub in a discussion with Fons Tuinstra of the China Speakers Bureau on the ongoing milk melamine scandal in China. “The bigger companies were trusted too much and when it come to food security, you cannot trust anybody.”MarkRead More →
Paul French While China’s melamine milk scandal has been covered pretty well by the media, we tend to forget Sanlu’s foreign partner Fonterra, warns retail-expert Paul French of Access Asia in his weekly newsletter. “But what is interesting to us, is that the New Zealand dairy company Fonterra, which ownsRead More →
Image via WikipediaA few times per week, new speakers asked to be included in the China Speakers Bureau. That is possible under a set of conditions, one of them is filling in our application form. Most people get to us by email, suggesting that our application form is too muchRead More →
Mark Schaub What is happening behind the doors of the dairy industry? While the headlines of the milk scandal get more worrying by the day, very few people have a good insight in what is happening behind the doors of that industry.Lawyer and successful author Mark Schaub, and not surprisinglyRead More →