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Columns & Interviews Travel & Leisure

Not garden variety

As competition heats up in Shanghai’s luxury hotel market, older locations are getting makeovers

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Columns & Interviews Travel & Leisure

Taking the pulse

Graham Earnshaw walks from Shanghai to Tibet when he has the time, always starting from the last place he stopped. This month we still find him near Huofeng in the west of Hubei province

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Columns & Interviews Politics & Society

Lessons from Mao

The Little Red Book of China Business by Sheila Melvin; Sourcebooks Inc; US$19.95 Writing on China, particularly the success-in-business variety, is often predictable, boring or both. Writers have a tendency to take an I-know-China-better-than-you tone (which may be true but is still irritating) and provide a myriad of examples gleaned from Harvard Business School of […]

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Columns & Interviews Investment

New Year blues will blow away

Strong earnings and currency appreciation mean the slow start to 2008 will be overcome

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Columns & Interviews Politics & Society

The Beijing effect

Is a post-Olympics crash inevitable for Beijing’s real estate industry?