Short post tonight. Dan Welygan, who worked in our Shenzhen office for 4 years and is now back on the team as the sales representative serving Oregon and Washington, sent me a link to the China Law Blog. Thus far looks like a good read. Another good China business blog is our friends at Silk […]
Continuing the pollution in China thread, here’s a short opinion piece by Stephen Cass in Technology Review which claims that 1500 new cars are added to the streets of Beijing each day (the excellent photo from that article is below). I don’t know where he got that number, but I’m going to assume that he’s […]
I’ve been cogitating recently on some of the marketing campaigns out there that seem almost designed to not sell the product or otherwise turn off customers. What the **** were they thinking? The creepy plastic faced Burger King ad campaign has won awards in the ad industry, but resulted in a declining market share for […]
Great article sent by a friend in DC on the health hazards of living in China. A few things that stuck out: 1 – Micro-particulate pollution – in terms of the human cost, this is more concerning than CO2: Another way to know this is via a clandestine air-quality station that the U.S. Embassy has […]
Well, finally recovered from Halloween. Kids had a great time, as did the adults. And yes, ALL of the store-bought costumes were Made in China. How odd it must be to mass produce accoutrement for another country’s holidays. What would an American printing company think if it were asked to print ghost money or bake […]
Here’s an interesting article from my home town paper, The Roanoke Times, on the new carbon capture technology being tested at a power plant in West (By God) Virginia. The technology is interesting to me, especially since I once considered becoming a geologist, but this is the part of the article I found most interesting: […]
My biggest project this year is the development of an international team of sales representatives to promote PassageMaker. While the roster is not complete by any stretch, we have a good start, with representatives in Brazil, Europe, Mexico and the USA. We will be adding more photos and bios shortly, and I will post updates […]
I’ve written about this before. Mike Bellamy asked me to avoid politics in this blog. Which is mostly fine, because generally I am sick of politics. But there are times when it is really, really, really, reeeeaaaaally hard, and this is one of those times. Why? Well, I’ve been going through the follow-ups from the […]
Very interesting podcast sent by Dan Welygan, formerly a project manager for PassageMaker, and now our sales rep covering Washington and Oregon. I was interested to hear the author’s view of Tiananmen, and it is largely spot on. His story on KFC ignores that they pioneered this Asian-flavored version of an American also-ran for 20+ […]
Julien Roger, Managing Director of our sister company, China Quality Focus, sent me this short article on a declaration of China’s commitment to improving quality control. Now the cynic in me would like to make a snarky comment on the pointlessness of such government pronouncements right about now, but I won’t for two reasons: Many […]
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