The Internet is an enabler for, amongst much else, business school study. MIT (which stands for the Massachussets Institute of Technology which is almost impossible to pronounce so that acronym is a blessed relief) is very serious about its efforts to bring educational technology with China. This year it has, as it were, doubled its […]
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[photopress:Pearlriver.jpg,full,alignright]China Shipping has announced that by the end of 2010 the volume of container cargo transportation on the Pearl River in southern China will total 10 million TEUs. The Pearl is China’s third longest river running for 2,200 km and is formed by convergence of the Xi Jiang (‘the West River’), the Bei Jiang (‘the […]
[photopress:kempinski_lufthansacenter1_1_2.jpg,full,alignright]The Kempinski Hotel group is moving to be a serious player in the Chinese market. Kempinski started in China in 1992 with the Kempinski Hotel Beijing Lufthansa Center. Since then the group has opened a further five hotels in major Chinese cities and one resort destination. Between now and the end of 2009 another nine […]
[photopress:Holidayinn.jpg,full,alignright]Holiday Inn Hotels & Resorts has been given the China Hotel Pioneer Award at the China Hotel Development and Financing Seminar. Holiday Inn in China was, indeed, one of the first international hotel brands to establish its presence on the mainland. The Holiday Inn Lido Beijing, shown here, opened in 1984. A. Patrick Imbardelli, chief […]
An article by Pallavi Aiyar, Beijing correspondent of the Indian Express newspaper, is an excellent report on the efforts that are being made to improve the quality of Chinese business education. Good salaries help. Dr Weiying Zhang, assistant president of Peking University, is the executive dean of Peking University’s Guanghua School of Management. There, full […]