Winners and Losers in China’s Passenger Car Market
Ten years from now, market shares will be reversed.Companies like Chery, Geely, BYD, Great Wall, and a great many more that we haven’t even heard of yet will dominate the market for cars in China.
August 25, 2010 Filed under Yu Shanshan
Blacklist
Professor Zhu Shida (ZS): We often say: He is a stranger to me. It means one does not know another person. Thus we have the phrase “stranger to,” followed by a pronoun or a noun.
August 25, 2010 Filed under Chinglish
Keeping baby weight under control
Pregnant woman may be eating for two, but one new study reports that women who gain too much weight during their pregnancies may deliver early or give birth to overweight infants.
August 25, 2010 Filed under Health
Small diversions for desktop gaming
Chipmakers and game developers have long conspired to lift more money from fans’ wallets. Every new visual masterpiece to hit store shelves always requires a new upgrade to the latest and greatest video card – usually released in tandem.
August 25, 2010 Filed under Trend
Hey Expats, Wanna Get Divorced in China?
Although China law has permitted local courts to handle both divorce and inheritance when expats and foreign assets are involved, problems arise when you actually go to court, depending on the circumstances.
August 25, 2010 Filed under Yu Shanshan
How to Fight Guanxi
Guanxi is the first and foremost problem in Chinese education.
August 25, 2010 Filed under Yu Shanshan
Space is Curved in China
Even national government administrators have been giving recent property buyers back-handed reassurances that property prices will not fall more than thirty percent. Yipes! What kind of investment is that?
August 25, 2010 Filed under Yu Shanshan
Spanish ‘paid al-Qaeda terrorists £5.6m to free two hostages’
Albert Vilalta, 35 and Roque Pascual, 50 were reunited with their families in Barcelona, early on Tuesday after being freed from the desert camp in Mali, where they had been held captive for 268 days.
Levi Johnston paves way to run for office in Sarah Palin’s hometown
“Be not afraid of greatness; some are born great, some achieve greatness, and others have greatness thrust upon them,” wrote William Shakespeare in Twelfth Night.
Camerons’ baby brightens up their summer holiday in Cornwall
In a tough year that has included fighting an election and forming a coalition government, David Cameron must have been looking forward to just a little bit of downtime with his pregnant wife, Samantha, in Cornwall, far from the mad flurry of Westminster.





