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Jury Nullification With Chinese Characteristics

Posted on April 08, 2008
Stan Abrams of the always excellent China Hearsay blog just posted on the decision of a Guangzhou court to dramatically reduce a previous verdict of life imprisonment to a five-year jail term for a person convicted of stealing money from a bank by taking advantage of a malfunctioning ATM machine...

Sun Bin Has Been There (In Western China) So Read His Blog

Posted on April 08, 2008
The force behind the Sun Bin blog has been to the big city in T1be*t and he is putting up some very good writing on his trip. Not that I should have to say this, but on this topic I fear I do, but my saying he has some very good writing does not mean I agree or disagree with any particular percentage of it, just that I find it thoughtful and informative...

China's New Labor Law Means Tenure For Everybody

Posted on April 07, 2008
SFO Airport Tomokazu Sushi Restaurant 7:52 pm PST Dinner Before My Next Flight Just came across this podcast interview with CLB's own Steve Dickinson on the always superlative Danwei blog. The post is entitled, "China Businesscast: China's new labor law, everybody gets tenure" and it provides the following executive summary (which is good because my next plane takes off in twenty minutes and I have no time to listen: The [new China labor] law was...

The Future And The Past For China Manufacturing

Posted on April 05, 2008
Joe Nocera of the New York Times just did an article, entitled, "Seeing the Sights of Industrial China: 2 Factories, 2 Futures," contrasting a textile factory with a manufacturer of silicon wafers for use in solar panels. The textile manufacturer is sinking fast due to the rising Yuan, rising labor costs, and China's policy of "moving up the value chain...

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Yuan/Dollar Exchange Rates

Posted on April 04, 2008
My knowledge of currency hedging is based mostly on the following: 1. I am right now wearing a Swiss watch I bought in Korea at the height of the 1997 Asian crash. When I bought it, I was getting about 2000 Korean Won to the Dollar and Korea's economy was in such bad shape, the Jeweler sold it to me for half the regular Won price...

Everything You Want To Know About China Wages. Jumbled Government Style.

Posted on April 03, 2008
Xinhua article just out on rapidly (I think) increasing salaries in China. This article, entitled, "Average salary increase of urban workers rises to six-year high," contains many salary numbers and statistics, but it is so vague both with the numbers and with the writing that I cannot parse out its highlights...

China: Go To Make Money, Not Just Products.

Posted on April 03, 2008
Got an email yesterday from Shaun Rein, a leading expert in China markets and marketing. Shaun's email described an article he wrote for Business Week based in large part on a survey recently conducted by Shaun's Shanghai based company, China Market Research Group...

China's Interior Is Missing Some Parts

Posted on April 03, 2008
A couple years ago, I attended an incredibly bad China seminar in Seattle (one of the speakers got me in for almost nothing and I really needed the CLE credits) at which one of the speakers essentially told everyone to locate in Chongqing. His rationale (replete with way too many pictures of him smiling and eating with purported high level government officials) seemed to have been based on the following: 1...

China's Retail Reality

Posted on April 02, 2008
Great post up over at Jeremy Gordon's China Business Services Blog on the reality Best Buy has been facing in trying to bring its retail concept into China. If you are thinking of bringing your retail business into China, read Jeremy's post, entitled, "Retail Reality...

Beijing As Second Hand Smoke

Posted on March 31, 2008
I make it a point to leave it to others to write about air pollution in China from a non-legal perspective, but this one from the Beijing Olympic Games 2008 Blog is just too good to pass up. Seems those who say breathing Beijing air is like smoking a pack of cigarettes a day are exaggerating, it is actually like living with someone who smokes a pack a day: The magazine ?that?s Beijing? interviewed Dr...

Getting To And Around Shanghai Pudong International AIrport's Terminal 2

Posted on March 31, 2008
CN Reviews has a great summary on getting to and from Pudong's Airport's new terminal and on going between the terminals. Very useful....

Beijing: Condoms Not Evidence Of Prostitution And Whoring

Posted on March 31, 2008
Xinhua just reports that, in an effort to prevent sexually transmitted diseases, Beijing's municipal government is making condoms "more accessible in its hotels, nightclubs and construction sites[???]:" Guesthouses, hotels and scenic resorts are all required to put condoms in toilets, and night clubs, bathing centers and major construction sites should have condom-selling vendors installed...

China Children Getting All Stressed Out

Posted on March 31, 2008
All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. Check out this article in the China Daily, entitled, "http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/opinion/2008-02/15/content_6458887.htmMental Health Master Plan," on the stress China's children face from parents who want them studying constantly and reading only that which is prescribed by adults (h/t One-Eyed Panda's Journal)...

China Products: Quality Costs Extra

Posted on March 30, 2008
Paul Midler's always excellent China Games blog just did an interesting post, entitled, "Survey: Testing Affects Price," on the correlation between price and quality in China. The post is on how prices quoted for Williams Loft, a distributor of mattress products, rose after Williams Loft made clear it would be verifying quality: The company [Williams Loft] sent out requests for quotation (RFQ) to twelve suppliers in China...

China As IP Paradise

Posted on March 30, 2008
A loyal reader just sent me an email asking me what I think of a China Daily article, entitled, "Courts see surge of foreign-related IPR cases." I think the article is a good reflection of what is really going on in the world of China IP. The article has the usual Chinese government induced fluff on how China is doing this or that to protect intellectual property, but it also includes some very telling numbers:...

Everything You Always Wanted To Know About Chinese Consumers

Posted on March 30, 2008
Though I know very little about marketing (and even less about marketing to China's consumers), I know enough to know that Mastercard's "Brand Preference of the Chinese Affluent"[pdf] is chock full of helpful information and -- by extention -- great insight into the Chinese consumer...

Beijing As Second Hand Smoke

Posted on March 30, 2008
I make it a point to leave it to others to write about air pollution in China from a non-legal perspective, but this one from the Beijing Olympic Games 2008 Blog is just too good to pass up. Seems those who say breathing Beijing air is like smoking a pack of cigarettes a day are exaggerating, it is actually like living with someone who smokes a pack a day: The magazine ???that???s Beijing??? interviewed Dr...

Getting To And Around Shanghai Pudong International AIrport's Terminal 2

Posted on March 30, 2008
CN Reviews has a great summary on getting to and from Pudong's Airport's new terminal and on going between the terminals. Very useful....

China Products: Quality Costs Extra

China As IP Paradise

Made In China: Es Tu Zegna?

Posted on March 29, 2008
The Wall Street Journal has a story out today that reinforces my contention that while low end manufacturing (what I call rubber ducky type products) is declining in China, higher end manufacturing is booming (see my posts here and here) The story is entitled, "China's Challenge to Italy Now, a Rival to European High-End Suits," and it talks about how China is starting to make high end suits for men...

China Counterfeiting. Just One Among 1.3 Billion.

Posted on March 29, 2008
The PN China Blog poste on counterfeiting and poor quality products in China. The post is entitled, "A Monumental Blacklist" and it discusses why Chinese companies so frequently and confidently engage in unfair business practices (including counterfeiting) and what needs to be done to stop it...

China Suburbanization Writ Large

Posted on March 29, 2008
Time Magazine's Shanghai correspondent, Bill Powell, (also of Time's China Blog) did a great story, entitled, "The Short March," on his family's move to a Shanghai suburb (h/t to The Yuan Also Rises). Good article on the suburbanization of China, but even better article on how growth affects China and on why continued growth is so necessary...

Everything You Always Wanted To Know About Chinese Consumers

Posted on March 29, 2008
Though I know very little about marketing (and even less about marketing to China's consumers), I know enough to know that Mastercard's "Brand Preference of the Chinese Affluent"[pdf] is chock full of helpful information and -- by extention -- great insight into the Chinese consumer...

China Suburbanization Writ Large

China HR = Worldwide HR.

Posted on March 28, 2008
Veteran China hand, David Dayton, of Silk Road International, did a post a while back on the effectiveness of international management practices in China. The post is based on an article on Phys.org, entitled, "Multinationals in emerging China should stick to their own ways of managing," and subtitled, "When it comes to breaking into the lucrative Chinese market, foreign multinational retailers should keep largely to their own, time-tested management techniques, according to new research funded...

Chinese Law Is Not An Ass, At Least For Western Companies.

Posted on March 28, 2008
The Off The Record Blog (a really good blog, BTW) just did a short, sweet, blunt post on the law in China that is only half right. The post is entitled, the "The Law is an ass and there you have it." It consists of the following quote from "a prominent Chinese lawyer during a private discussion about China?s new Labor Law": ?The problem with Western companies in China is that you think laws are...

China Business/Investment Law And Child Rearing: A Lot Of Gray

Posted on March 28, 2008
China Vortex did an interesting post on how foreign companies do and should react to Chinese laws. The post is entitled, "Working the Gray Areas in China," and it starts out quoting "Chinese entrepreneurs" saying that if they were to wait until the Chinese government said they could do something, they would never be able to make money...

Chinese Law Is Not An Ass, At Least For Western Companies.

Posted on March 28, 2008
The Off The Record Blog (a really good blog, BTW) just did a short, sweet, blunt post on the law in China that is only half right. The post is entitled, the "The Law is an ass and there you have it." It consists of the following quote from "a prominent Chinese lawyer during a private discussion about China???s new Labor Law": ???The problem with Western companies in China is that you think laws are...

China Business/Investment Law And Child Rearing: A Lot Of Gray

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