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REDPAD: THE COMMUNIST IPAD
China’s political elite now have another toy to infuriate their impoverished subjects with: the exorbitantly priced Android tablet computer, the RedPad. The RedPad is an obvious nod to its iPad...
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APPLE, AMAZON HIT E-BOOK WALL OF ASIA
With the holiday season officially over, e-books are the big winners as sales continue to surge. Millions woke up Christmas morning to find e-readers and tablets (probably some kind of Kindle e-reader)...
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BAD ENGLISH BLAMED FOR ASIA AIR TRAFFIC DANGER
We now have incontrovertible evidence that English is the default language of international communication even in Asia, but it took a near fatal air disaster to prove it. On Monday China Eastern...
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YAO MING: BASKETBALL TO BUSINESS?
Yao Ming sure has been busy since trading in his Reeboks four months ago. Since retiring, the former Houston Rockets player has already started classes at one of Shanghai’s elite business management...
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CHINA MICROBLOG LOOKS TO DETHRONE TWITTER
If Don Draper had known about Twitter, he might have just kicked up his heels, poured himself a glass of whiskey and called it day. These days, if a company wants to build brand awareness in new...
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U.S. BRANDS GET A CHINESE MAKEOVER
The New York Times does a bang up job uncovering some of the odder translations of American brands in China in a new multimedia feature on its site. Among the highlights are: Citibank: branded as...
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OBAMA, HU FACE-OFF AT APEC 2011
No embarrassing photos of world leaders in tacky costumes and plastered smiles this year, folks. While U.S. President Barack Obama may have buried the infamous APEC silly shirt tradition in the closet,...
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WHY CHINA’S STAR CEO MUST ACQUIRE YAHOO
Recently I did a radio interview with Dutch station Business News Radio (BNR). The topic was the interest that Alibaba has shown in taking over Yahoo. When I first read about Jack Ma’s speech at...
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China now owns 10 percent of Apple’s success
During Apple’s conference call this week discussing Q2, 2011 financial results, an amazing fact came to light: In terms of revenue, Apple is now 10 percent Chinese. Apple Chief Operating Officer Tim...
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Crouching Expat, Hidden Salaryman: The truth about the Asia job market
An interesting, and tricky narrative is shaping up in the world of international business with regards to the Asia region. It seems that just as Asia has taken the lead as the new global hot spot for...
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