It is the kind of worry-free holiday most business owners can only dream of: African entrepreneurs setting up shop in Yiwu International Trade Mart, Zhejiang province, enjoy a three-year break from paying rent.
Way back in 1852, setting up a liquor business in the Philippines was no easy task for Chinese immigrant Lim Tua Co.
One of the UK's top family-business advisers is suggesting that as some of China's pioneering entrepreneurs of the 1970s reach retirement, they would do well to consider a more modern approach to their succession planning.
Just as the one-eyed man is king in the kingdom of the blind, East Steel is a master of all it surveys in Ethiopia's steel industry. That is despite its minuscule output of 300,000 tons, which, if it were in China, would long since have put it out of business.
Ye Mao has a wonderfully honest expression for his company's rapidly expanding international ambitions.
First-time visitors to China recently might be forgiven for thinking they'd landed somewhere else by mistake, somewhere like Monte Carlo or Saratoga, New York. As the summer heat broke, the Beijing calendar was suddenly chock-full of polo, with a string of September tournaments in the capital and a five-day international meet in Tianjin during October's National Day holiday week.
Ed Olver is helping introduce the sport of polo to China's affluent consumers.
Planning to go to a polo match? Here are some terms to help keep up your end of the conversation:
Step into the lobby of the Kempinski Hotel Guiyang at noon and you will find the place already filled with people checking in or enjoying their beverage and chatting with others at the lounge bar.
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