Facebook: The Hot Spot on The Web for Old People!

According to this piece in Time magazine, Facebook is becoming a hot spot on the web for the 35+ set. I wrote a while back that the elitism of Facebook’s invitation-only registration service is a good thing for marketing in China because it separates the rich from the poor. I wonder if Facebook — or [...]

One-Eyed Panda is Now on Del.icio.us

I thought the blog roll was getting too long for this site’s gutter, so I’ve added a link to my new del.icio.us page. Now you can click there to see all my recommend websites such as the Meditations on Meaning Blog.
J.

Missing Dissident Update: Back at Home

There’s an update on Time’s China blog about kidnapped detained dissident Yuan Weijing. According Simon Elegent, she was taken back to Shandong province by her local village police force who has again put her under house arrest. Score another point for the local corrupt officials.
J.

Reebok’s Failed Chinese Union

China Herald has a post on Reebok’s failed attempt at a union at one of its suppliers in Fujian, Shun Da Shoes. They started out with good intentions and to build up its CSR. But five years later and union hasn’t made things better, they’re much worse. The report seems to indicate the union leaders [...]

Is The Chinese Government Demanding Foreign Businesses Go Back to The Product Drawingboard?

According to the China Law Blog, the China Inspection Quarintine Bureau is redesigning products that have been recalled in the US and insisting on exporters to implement these changes to their designs unless the exporters can guarantee they will not be recalled in the US.
This is new information to Dan Harris of China Law Blog [...]

The Key to Growing Your China Business: Staffing

This week’s Economist has a great article on the main issue preventing foreign companies from growing their China business: staffing. There is a shortage of skilled Chinese workers that are able to fulfill the requirements of foreign companies to work in China. This makes them a very desirable commodity — and the Chinese know this [...]

China’s Opium Wars: A Bit More Complicated Than I Thought

I just listened to a really good episode of BBC Radio 4’s In Our Time. It focused on China’s Opium Wars that lead to the British seizing Hong Kong and treaty ports in Shanghai, Tianjin, Guangzhou and other coastal cities The theory of the three historians on the program was that the Chinese really didn’t [...]

Dissident Goes Missing At the Beijing Airport

I hadn’t planned to update this space until tomorrow, but this piece at Time’s China blog got me writing early. Yuan Weijing, the wife of jailed blind activist Chen Guangcheng, who is jail for four years for protesting the application of China’s one-child policy in his village in Shangdong province was “detained” yesterday at the [...]

An Embaressing Situation: A Response

To the anonymous police officer who posted a comment to my previous post, thanks for the advice. I definitely reacted out of fear. When a group of angry people surround you, you tend to get scared. If I could have kept my wits about me a bit longer or got up the courage to leave [...]

An Embaressing Situation

Today, something really embaressing happened to me. I was going to the hospital to get my eye checked, when I walked through the lobby to the lift to get to the foreigners’ clinic a woman bumped in to me. The women bumped on me on my right side and since I don’t see out of [...]