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How To Enforce Contracts But Not Pay Debts To Chinese Companies

How To Enforce Contracts But Not Pay Debts To Chinese Companies

Experiences & examples suggesting that Chinese companies won’t sue you for money you owe them, & how foreigners can improve their legal contracts with Chinese.

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Opportunity In China’s 4th-6th Tier Cities & Counterfeit Cigarettes

Opportunity In China’s 4th-6th Tier Cities & Counterfeit Cigarettes

Business opportunities and insights for China’s 4th-6th tier cities, and China’s massively lucrative counterfeit cigarette industry (& how you can get into it!).

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Google Needs to Behave To Succeed, Say Chinese Bloggers

Google Needs to Behave To Succeed, Say Chinese Bloggers

BloggerInsight asks notable Chinese bloggers how CCTV’s recent attacks against Google will affect Google’s business in China. Their answers might not be pretty.

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Chinese Web Insights: CCTV’s Attacks Increased Google’s Traffic

Chinese Web Insights: CCTV’s Attacks Increased Google’s Traffic

Translation of a Hecaitou (well-known Chinese blogger) post on how CCTV’s recent attacks against Google for links to vulgar content has boosted Google’s traffic.

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Stefano Negri: Preparing For China’s Urban Billion

Stefano Negri: Preparing For China’s Urban Billion

At TEDxShanghai 2009, Stefano Negri gave a talk based on his research for McKinsey & Co. concerning urbanization or the growth of cities in China, offering some... 

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Gang Lu: The Dragon’s Web & Asian Internet

Gang Lu: The Dragon’s Web & Asian Internet

Gang Lu’s presentation at Barcamp Shanghai 2009, was an ambitious overview of the state of the internet for both China and greater Asia (including Japan and... 

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Toine Roojimans: Payment In China – Systems & Habits

Toine Roojimans: Payment In China – Systems & Habits

Toine Roojimans shared a presentation on payment systems, infrastructure, and habits in China at Barcamp Shanghai 2009, a key topic of interest for anyone hoping... 

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Chinese Web Insights: Difficult To Understand 3G TV Ads

Chinese Web Insights: Difficult To Understand 3G TV Ads

Well-known Chinese brand strategy expert & advertising man Xu Dawei criticizes China Mobile & China Telecom’s 3G ad campaigns for not making much sense.

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China SNS Gaming Applications: What’s Next?

China SNS Gaming Applications: What’s Next?

Mini-case study on Chinese social networking service gaming trends, with insights from focus groups of China bloggers on what SNS games of the future should be.

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Chinese Web Insights: Taobao Is Toxic

Chinese Web Insights: Taobao Is Toxic

Keso, an influential Chinese tech blogger, criticizes a recent Alibaba campaign encouraging university students to start ecommerce businesses on Taobao.com.

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WordCamp 2008: WordPress SEO Mistakes We All Make

WordCamp 2008: WordPress SEO Mistakes We All Make

Off-topic post alert (but what is really on-topic for CNReviews these days heh) I’m at WordCamp SF today, and just saw a presentation by Stephen Spencer, founder... 

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Supernova 2008: Three insights about distributed conversations from FriendFeed, CoComment, Seesmic

Supernova 2008: Three insights about distributed conversations from FriendFeed, CoComment, Seesmic

I’m at a Supernova panel called Liquid Conversations that is generally about the migration of comments and participants away from the blog and to other venues,... 

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Plus Eight Star Intro to Asian Social Networks and Social Applications

Plus Eight Star Intro to Asian Social Networks and Social Applications

Via Andrew Chen (via Noah Kagan) I found this great presentation by Benjamin Joffe, managing director of Plus Eight Star Ltd. Many of the stats below are known by... 

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Guide to Christine Lu’s Shanghai Vlogging Tour

Guide to Christine Lu’s Shanghai Vlogging Tour

Via Twitter and YouTube, I’ve been following Christine Lu, founder of China Business Network, on her first week back in Shanghai. Her vlog is a great resource... 

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