Category: Economics & Trade

[photopress:hunchun3.jpg,full,alignright]China, Russia, Japan and the Republic of Korea (ROK) have agreed on a new regular cargo and passenger sea route linking China and Japan. The route, due to open early next year, will run about 800 sea miles from Hunchun, a major Chinese port city in northeast Jilin Province, to Niigata in Japan by way […]

[photopress:Macquarie.jpg,full,alignright] Tsinghua University will cooperate with Macquarie University in Sydney to launch masters’ degree programs for applied finance. MQ’s Master of Applied Finance — currently taught in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Singapore and Tokyo — will be taught at Tsinghua’s campus in English by Macquarie academics. A small portion of the content (such as the legal […]

[photopress:Matson.jpg,full,alignright]Using five, relatively small fuel-efficient Matson has launched a weekly service from Shanghai to Long Beach, California that takes a few days less than the usual trip. Matson is, in effect, betting US$365 million bet that speed sells. Matson Chief Operating Officer, Matt Cox, said, ‘For us, the question has always been this: How does […]

[photopress:chinese3.jpg,full,alignright]A report in the South China Morning Post answers a key question: what kind of return you can expect on your investment in studying for an MBA? One example: graduates at the China-European Institute of Business in Shanghai averaged salary increases of 154 per cent. Tuition fees for a full-time MBA cost HK$249,000 at the […]