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Arthur Kroeber by Fantake via Flickr China’s financial authorities have created a mechanism to loosen the peg between its currency, the Renminbi, and the US dollar, the Chinese currency has actually appreciated slightly, but economic analyst Arthur Kroeber is not expecting any huge changes, he tells CSM. When the RMBRead More →

Shopping mall in Shanghai by Fantake via Flickr Consumerism is on the rise in China, and the new consumers get their own temples too. But according to retail specialist Paul French, quoted in a good article in The Guardian, There is something wrong in the retail kingdom: The retail market,Read More →

Paul French by Fantake via Flickr China might be rocking on mega-events like the Beijing Olympics or the Shanghai World Expo, the failed eco-city Dongtan in Shanghai, originally meant to be part of the World Expo, failed dramatically. In the New York Times Paul French is one of the experts,Read More →

Kaiser Kuo by Fantake via Flickr Celebrity speaker, rock musician and internet watcher Kaiser Kuo has today joined China’s largest search engine Baidu as their director international media relations. The news broke late last night through Twitter, a micro messaging service blocked in China. Kuo will report directly to Baidu’sRead More →

Wendell Minnick by Fantake via Flickr The arms sales deal of a US 6 billion between the US and Taiwan continues to hamper the relations between the US and China, writes Wendell Minnick in Defense News.  Chinese academics and others explain that this time “enough was enough” and might beRead More →

Wendell Minnick by Fantake via Flickr A shake-up in our top-10 of most-sought speakers for June, at least at the top. Not only was Jasper Becker able to maintain his surprising top position, he earlier got in May. Wendell Minnick, the Asia Bureau Chief of Defence News, who recently joinedRead More →

Rupert Hoogewerf by Fantake via Flickr Six out of the top-10 richest self-made women are Chinese, illustrating the upsurge of women in China’s corporate life, says Hurun list composer Hupert Hoogewerf in Shanghai Urbanatomy. This year’s list of the World’s Richest Self-Made Women, compiled by the Shanghai-based Hurun Report andRead More →

Zhang Lijia by Fantake via Flickr Former rocket factory worker Zhang Lijia compares in the New York Times her working life in Nanjing in the 1980s with todays life at the new factories of Foxconn and Honda. People often ask me if things have improved. It’s hard to say. There are stillRead More →

Rupert Hoogewerf by Fantake via Flickr Becoming part of China’s elite is becoming harder, as the prices for luxury goods are rising fast, tells Rupert Hoogewerf, composer of the Hurun rich list, the Shanghai Daily. Especially property prices pushed the luxury index CPI sky high. The luxury CPI grew 11.3Read More →

Source: WSJ by Fantake via Flickr In the first week of June at the China Speakers Bureau we expanded our book publishing service. That was noted and friends have sent us this link to this June 4, article in the Wall Street Journal, putting our new service in a newRead More →

Arthur Kroeber by Fantake via Flickr The recent unrest at Honda, Foxconn and other manufacturers in China are only the start of a change in the country’s demographic structure, Arthur Kroeber tells The Washing Post. “This is the thin end of a very long wedge,” said Arthur Kroeber, managing directorRead More →