The next emperor
"With you in charge, I am at ease,” Mao Zedong is supposed to have told his successor, Hua Guofeng. It proved a disastrous choice. Mr Hua lasted a couple of years before being toppled in 1978. A decade later succession plans once again unravelled spectacularly, against a backdrop of pro-democracy unrest. Only once,...
PINGAR SIGNS WITH CHINESE UNIVERSITY TO DEVELOP NEXT GEN ...
Pingar, the New Zealand based tech company that has developed the next generation ‘intelligent’ search platform, announced in Shanghai today that it has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with one of China’s largest and most prestigious tertiary institutions, the East China Normal University (ECNU)....
Vic Percival Augusta Awards
Click here to view the extract from the School magazine relating to Vic Percival.
Pumpkin Patch in awards triumph
Children's clothing retailer Pumpkin Patch took the top prize at the New Zealand International Business Awards in Auckland last night. Pumpkin Patch beat 24 companies, including Mount Riley Wines, Altitude Aerospace Interiors and Douglas Pharmaceuticals for the Supreme Award. Judges said they were impressed by the way the...
Wages to continue increasing: report
China will face a continuous acceleration of market wages in the next five years, a report by the School of Economics, Renmin University of China, said. The change will be the result of the low-end labor market reaching a turning point, bringing about structural changes that have initiated the recent general wage formation...
Blueprint for a New China
Urbanisation on the Chinese mainland is advancing at an annual rate of one per cent, which means that about 13 million people move from rural areas to cities each year. The enormous changes to the country’s urban blueprint in the years ahead are expected to create huge demand in the construction and engineering sectors....
Michael Pettis: Slow and steady only way for China to go
The world must be patient with China. For years, the nation of 1.3 billion has dragged its feet on rebalancing its economy, raising anger around the globe. But the process was never going to be easy, and officials in Beijing were no more eager than other governments to make hard decisions when times were good For...
Brand Protection in China – Marking in English and Chinese
As regular readers will know, I’m currently in the United States on tour speaking at engagements with a host of U.S. businesses, venture capitalists and the like, working with the U.S. Department of Commerce, with whom we wrote the highly successful “China Business Handbook” (downloadable for free). A lot of...
Richard Fyers: Overseas buyers a blessing to struggling farms
Contrary to public opinion, there is no queue of foreigners to buy farmland in New Zealand. Many farm owners have been seeking capital to pay down debt, expand or exit. Some have been trying for more than a year, such as the Crafar farms in receivership, Graeme Hart's dairy farms and others less well known. For the...
Comvita’s Asian partners become stakeholders
Natural healthcare company Comvita’s partners in China and Korea have both taken strategic stakes in the company raising $2 million. GPE, Comvita’s master agent in China and Aju Pharm, the company’s distribution partner in Korea, have each been issued 500,000 shares at $2 each. Comvita chairman Neil...
Mainland China’s Economy Accelerating Again, But For How ...
Mainland China’s economic growth rebounded slightly in August after easing for several months in a row. Even export growth remained unexpectedly strong during the month despite the fragility of the global recovery. These, coupled with rising inflation and the stubbornly high home prices on the Mainland, have sparked...
More people packing as travel bug bites
The tourism market was in full stride with the advent of National Day Golden Week as increasing numbers of people are packing for domestic and international trips. A China Tourism Academy report published earlier this month predicted that the country would receive 210 million travelers during the Golden Week holiday....
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