CIOs' successful leadership skills

Today's chief information officers must be an entirely new breed of technology leader. As IT becomes a more integral part of business operations and strategies, CIOs must find game-changing innovations and process improvements that make a real impact on the bottom line. Business executives need their CIOs to be real partners - speaking the language of the business and donning their strategist caps - not just commodity managers. Those IT leaders who fail to break out of the order-taker, utility manager mold will, simply put, be looking for a new job.

American cuisine gets a French twist in the oriental metropolis

Despite there being over 400 branches of KFC and McDonald's in Shanghai, higher-quality American food is not as prevalent or popular here as French or Italian cuisine.

Pieces of history

In the turbulence of the last century, many of China's cultural relics were looted, sold abroad or even worse - destroyed. Zhao Xu reports on the State-owned antique stores and the unique role they have played in protecting the country's heritage Zhao Xu

A lifetime of collecting

When asked if he has gone to the Zhengzhou Antique Fair, arguably the biggest in China, Liu Jinhong, 57, who has his own store inside Beijing Antique City, dismisses the idea as "tiring and completely unnecessary".

Real estate companies join forces

Two of China's biggest property companies announced a strategic partnership on Thursday amid growing pressure from slowing real estate sales.

Bars no barrier for tycoon to rake in profits

Being behind bars has not stopped the founder of a Chinese appliance seller from booking gains approaching $1 billion in Hong Kong's surging stock market.

Yellow metal demand wanes in first quarter

Yellow metal appetite waned in China during the first three months of the year as dama, or the middle-aged wealthy Chinese women investors, shifted focus to the bullish stock market and reduced purchases, an industry report said on Thursday.

Bankers tempted by lucrative prospects of Internet finance

Pay cuts may well promote equality but they are also leading to an exodus of top bank talent, reports Jiang Xueqing.

Scotland offers blueprint for national golf success

Growing up in Scotland, I hit my first golf balls on what we called back then a "corporation" course.

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