The scholars argue, who invented the noodles. There was the Chinese and Marco Polo brought them to Italy or they been invented independently in Italy and in China or was the ancient Greeks the inventors. In Thailand it interests only whether they were...

The New York Times is back on its game. This week it breaks another story that decision-makers with China responsibility need to know about. Last week it was melamine-tainted food imports. Now it’s medication. The New York Times writes: “ … die...

When you are selling a product or service in China, you are going to run into two different kinds of decision makers. Owners – and people who think like them care about how your product or service will contribute to their organization’s profits. M...

I am not gone, just mourning a bit… While Mother Nature tortures China with floods in the South (600,000 homeless), earthquakes in Yunnan (nearly 200,000 without a roof), and droughts to the North (the worst in 60 years, my fate related woes, an inf...

The ex-pat manager’s conundrum in China: how do you protect your IP when your IP is both your product and your sales pitch? For many service-oriented businesses, the very ideas that they are guarding from being stolen must be displayed and discussed...