Last week's depreciation of the yuan stoked fears that European exports to China could be hit. As the euro and the pound strengthened, concerns started to grow that companies selling goods to the second-biggest economy in the world would see their trading margins shrink.
China's decision to press ahead with its nuclear energy program can have a positive effect on the global market.
Major foreign companies need to work harder to hang on to Chinese staff as the business environment becomes more competitive. Retaining talented employees is crucial if an enterprise wants to grow here.
Bulls and bears have dominated market conversations in the past few months, but now is the time to talk about the humble pig. It is squealing loudly for attention.
David Kynaston believes many underestimate just how Hong Kong has transformed itself over the past 35 years.
Where were the experts when the financial crisis struck? How could they have allowed it to happen?
Leveraging the potential of information technology to boost the bottom line is the sole responsibility of the IT department or is it? As quickly as social media has changed the way people interact, so too has business technology in altering the way businesses operate.
It came as no surprise recently to read that the Chinese yuan, or renminbi, as it is also widely known, is set to replace the Japanese yen to become the fourth international currency within two years.
With the recent stock market rout, unimpressive growth data, and yuan devaluation against the US dollar, the Chinese economy seems to be in a particularly difficult stage.
Anyone even marginally involved in commodities will be aware that last year's Qingdao port incident had an immense impact on the worldwide financing trade for metals. More than a year after the discovery of large-scale collateral fraud involving warehouse receipts for metal stored at Qingdao port in Shandong province, which had been pledged multiple times as collateral to raise finance, Chinese and international banks continue to take a dim view of lending to the copper industry, and the metals sector as a whole.
For many people the words fasting and self-denial conjure up negative images, ones of pallid, listless bodies and of hard-to-bear sacrifice that are out of tune with the zeitgeist of the me generation.
We are in a bustling restaurant in downtown Beijing - or it could be any other Chinese city, town or village, for that matter. This evening the din of chatter mixed with soft music wafts through the warm summer's air, and the preoccupation of almost everyone seems to be matters oral: biting, chewing and swallowing the copious amounts of all kinds of food that has been delivered to their tables.
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