Other Briefings
Olympic Marathon World Record Athlete Threatens Beijing Air Quality Pull Out
Haile Gebresellassie, asthma sufferer, may not participate Feb. 11 – The current Olympic World Record holder for the Marathon, Ethiopian long distance runner Haile Gebresellassie stated he may pull out of participating in this summers Beijing Olympics if the air quality remains poor. In Beijing over Chinese New Year as part of an Adidas sponsored […]
Year of the Rat Spirit Prevails As China Overcomes Its Weather
Old Communist ideals triumph over freezing adversity By Chris Devonshire-Ellis Feb 8th – China’s long ten days of extreme snowy conditions finally relented as a massive coordinated effort by the national and regional Governments together with the military enabled the nation to enjoy a peaceful new year. Snow was cleared, trains although delayed, arrived, and […]
Beijing University Professor Named As World Bank Chief Economist
Greater economic understanding of developing countries, Africa, seen as main benefits By Chris Devonshire-Ellis Washington, February 8th – Justin Lin Yifu, of Beijing University China Center for Economic Research, has just been named Chief Economist of the World Bank , the first time a Chinese national has held the position. Professor Lin was born in […]
Greetings For The Chinese New Year of the Rat!
February 5th – The Chinese New Year of the Rat begins at midnight on Thursday 7th February, with most people in China celebrating New Years Eve on Wednesday evening. All staff at China Briefing and Dezan Shira & Associates wish all our readers and clients around the world the very best for the New Year. […]
Establishing FICEs in China: Registration procedures explained
Feb. 5 – Since June 2004 China has permitted foreign direct investors to establish fully operational, 100 percent foreign owned retail and trading companies that can buy and sell in China, holding their own import-export licenses. In this article, we will look at the pre-registration stage of the application process. Applications are made at a […]
Common mistakes made during M&As
Feb. 4 – Today we excerpt part of an article that first appeared in the China Briefing’s new Technical Guide to M&A. With more and more multinationals consider mergers and acquisitions as a means of entering the Chinese market, many are finding out the hard way that mistakes and misperceptions about M&A deals in China […]
Chinese rubles
China lost control much of the northern territory of Manchuria (latter day Heilongjiang, Liaoning and Jilin provinces) from 1895 until the end of World War II and the defeat of the Japanese. The area was highly volatile and controlled via a series of treaties by both Russia and Japan. The Russians developed Harbin as a […]
Corporate America’s China plus one strategy
By Chris Devonshire-Ellis LOS ANGELES, Jan. 31 – Traveling around California and Nevada these past two weeks (you guessed it, Las Vegas has got to be an essential stop on any self-respecting conference go-er) it struck me in talking to American businesses large and small how much the Far East is changing in perception for […]
