Shaun Rein Wealthy Chinese and international travelers make the hotel industry a bright spot in China, says Shaun Rein, managing director of the China Market Research Group in the Wall Street Journal, as major hotel chains announced to expand their investments despite the ongoing financial crisis. Mr. Rein said heRead More →

Rich Kuslan Where is the Letter of Credit (L/C), wonders Rich Kuslan at his weblog Asiabizblog. The freeze at the interbanking lending might bring trade with China to a standstill. Companies completely dependent upon product purchased overseas by means of letters of credit could be badly affected if L/Cs willRead More →

When you make use of a speakers’ bureau like ours, it makes sense to get the best out of it. How can you do that? By making use of our expertise. A few times too often we are being approached by companies and organizations who ask for a specific speakerRead More →

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 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 →