As competition heats up in Shanghai’s luxury hotel market, older locations are getting makeovers
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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
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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Gas guzzlers
India and China’s new car owners are hitting the roads with underpriced gasoline in their tanks. How long can this go on?
Having a production base in China is a requirement for makers of high-tech gadgets like the Amazon Kindle, says the inventor of the device’s ‘electronic paper’ technology