+China | February 12, 2007

More Red Cents

By Austin Ramzy

Last month my colleague Susie Jakes wrote about her surprise that Shanghai party officials said they had been able to track down every last cent of the $407 million that disappeared in the Shanghai pension scandal. Today a story came out in the South China Morning Post that might help explain how that was possible. [...]

+China | February 12, 2007

400 million customers (back then)

By billpowell721

As many of you know, Jim McGregor’s book, “One Billion Customers, Lessons From the Front Lines of Doing Business in China, ” is one of the best `China books’ of the past couple of years. Jim’s a former reporter–WSJ Bureau Chief in Beijing–who went on to bigger and better things. His book paid implicit homage [...]