As China celebrated the Mid-Autumn Festival this past week, countless gifts were exchanged by friends, families, and co-workers in homes and offices all across the country. In the days following the festival, many gifts changed hands once again, this time behind store counters and in narrow back alleys. These second exchanges were part of a …Read More
Shanghai, and mainland China as a whole, got an economic vote of confidence from two fluffy sources this week: Disney and Barbie. News was announced that a Disneyland in Shanghai is likely to be approved this year, and the world’s biggest official Barbie store is finally ready to open in the city. The two American …Read More
Banks collapsing, countries on the edge of bankruptcy, a near-return to the Great Depression. All looks somewhat surreal when viewed from the other side of the planet, does it not? Precisely when – or how – the global crisis will impact on ordinary people in Asia is hard to estimate, but it’s likely to, in …Read More
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