Cash Flows to Hunan

At yesterday’s Trade Talks on International Investment, Hunan Province signed eight investment contracts with a total value of around US$243 million, including US$69 million in foreign investment.

Real Estate Bubble Deniers

I don’t care how many folks come to live in the cities in the next few years. No way that they are going to be able to purchase housing at these values.

On the China Road with Rob Gifford

I was still fumbling through the first draft of my own book, China Inside Out, and greatly appreciated the travelogue approach and relaxed feeling the book took in framing the charms and challenges of modernizing China.

Why bother with college?

Just as Americans are thinking of dropping out of college, Chinese are queuing up to take their place.

Why Chinese make bad managers

In the land that invented the bureaucracy, management theory and practices have existed for millennia, codified in classic texts such as The Art of War and The Romance of the Three Kingdoms. That Chinese would equate management with warfare helps explain why they’re so singularly bad at it.

Heatwave

DJ Oshi and DJ Tnem. they carry to us their special and full of enough BASS-DRIVEN ELECTRO and GHETTO HOUSE come to China, and get on BJ.

Brazilian Carnaval

Yan Club and Leo Anjos present Brazilian Carnival performed by top Brazilian DJ Sandro from Miami on May 27.

After bin Laden, US reopens Afghan, Pakistan strategy

Osama bin Laden’s death has reopened a high-stakes debate in Washington over the U.S. role in South Asia, where 100,000 troops are fighting a costly war in Afghanistan next door to a fragile, nuclear-armed and suspicious Pakistan.

NKorea’s Kim in China for development lessons

North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il pursued a secretive visit to China on Monday, apparently aimed at taking lessons from Chinese economic development back to his isolated and impoverished nation.

US: Missouri Tornado Kills Dozens

A tornado steamrolled over Joplin, Mo., on Sunday night, knocking out a hospital and causing many deaths across the city, according to various reports.