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sayaka uchida

How To Avoid Getting Kidnapped In China - Forbes.com - 0 views

www.forbes.com/...i-leadership-managing-hui.html

china business

shared by sayaka uchida on 04 Aug 09 - No Cached
  • There are a lot more similarities than differences between the U.S. and China. But some of the differences are substantial.
  • Americans confronted with business disputes expect to turn to lawyers and courts. That isn't done nearly as often in China. Companies, especially smaller private ones, turn instead to relationships. If they don't have relationships to turn to, they sometimes fall back on threats and physical fighting. But you see many more paper tigers than real ones.
  • Use relationships rather than legalese whenever possible to solve problems.
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  • Many Americans have heard of guanxi, but it's often translated wrongly to mean relationships with powerful people
  • Guanxi means something very different from the American concept of connections.
  • It means being in a social circle where you can let your guard down a little, because there is deep trust, perhaps from generations of coexistence, living in the same neighborhoods or even with interwoven family relations.
  • Long-term perspective is very important in China. A defaulting borrower should avoid saying he won't pay and instead pay a little right away and explain that he is hurting but will make good in the future. You cannot rely on bankruptcy to absolve debts.
  • ou need to know that relying on the law to avoid making payments to Chinese businesses doesn't usually work
  • To be successful long term, your company must have strong contracts and good legal advice, but it also needs to understand the importance of relationships, and nurture those as well.
Christoph Zed

BBC NEWS | Asia-Pacific | Australia-China tie 'challenging' - 0 views

news.bbc.co.uk/...8211025.stm

globalixation china politics economics power-play

shared by Christoph Zed on 20 Aug 09 - Cached
  • Australia is disturbed by China's detention of an Australian executive; China is angry that Australia allowed a Uighur leader, Rebiya Kadeer, to visit.
  • Australia sells huge amounts of natural resources to China and, despite hitches in the relationship, signed a new gas deal this week with PetroChina.
  • "China has significant interests in Australia. China's interests in Australia go to its long-term needs for its resource security," Mr Rudd said.
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  • Chinese media meanwhile, has called Australia "sino-phobic".
Rika Ninomiya

BBC NEWS | Asia-Pacific | China iPhone man commits suicide - 0 views

news.bbc.co.uk/...8162325.stm

shared by Rika Ninomiya on 07 Aug 09 - Cached
  • A Chinese man suspected of stealing a prototype for the fourth generation iPhone has committed suicide.
  • "We require our suppliers to treat all workers with dignity and respect," Jill Tan, an Apple spokeswoman in Hong Kong, told reporters. 'Humiliating'
  • On 13 July, Sun reported that he was missing one of the 16 units in his possession.
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  • The company immediately launched an investigation into the disappearance; three days later he had jumped to his death.
  • during the firm's investigation he was beaten, his house was searched and he was locked up alone in a room.
  • one of the most humiliating experiences of his life
  • Mr Gu denies hitting Sun, and a CCTV image of the worker on the day before he died
  • Foxconn has faced allegations in the past that it treats its employees poorly. It has always denied such claims, and was cleared by Apple of any serious abuses, our correspondent says.
  • Rika Ninomiya on 07 Aug 09
     
    Really interesting article on how China man committed suicide because he lost one of sixteen iphone 4th generation prototype.
Rika Ninomiya

NZ undoes $1m whale case against Japan | The Australian - 0 views

www.theaustralian.news.com.au/...0,,23662989-16953,00.html

Japan Australia

shared by Rika Ninomiya on 14 Aug 09 - Cached
  • AUSTRALIA is likely to abandon its $1 million attempt to take Japan to the international court over whaling after New Zealand gave up its plans to use legal action to stop the annual cull.
  • using aircraft and ships to gather evidence against Japanese whalers in the Southern Ocean.
  • But the New Zealand Government has since discovered "significant difficulties" with taking Japan to the international court and has abandoned the tactic.
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  • The hunt for evidence against Japan in its "scientific hunt" for whales became highly contentious when the crew of the environmental crusader ship Sea Shepherd was accused of piracy and violence after activists threw bottles of "acid" and boarded a Japanese whaling ship.
  • Tokyo wants to ensure Mr Rudd's first trip to Japan as Prime Minister is positive and concentrates on climate change and potential joint regional aid projects rather than whaling and the perceived snub in his failure to include Japan on last month's 17-day world trip, which included four days in China.
  • In December, Australia issued a demarche, or formal diplomatic protest, on behalf of numerous nations over Japan's plans to cull about 900 minke whales and 50 fin whales.
  • It is estimated that Australia's "evidence gathering" to form a case against Japanese whalers in an international court, which included the voyage of the Oceanic Viking and aerial surveillance, cost taxpayers more than $1 million. The Rudd Government has been "considering" the evidence for three months and has still not made a decision.
  • pro-Chinese to the point of being anti-Japanese.
  • "agree to disagree on whaling".
  • The Prime Minister and the Foreign Minister have signalled they want an end to the diplomatic row with Japan although they still vigorously oppose whaling.
  • Opposition foreign affairs spokesman Andrew Robb said yesterday Mr Rudd had to calm relations between Australian and Japan. Mr Robb said Mr Rudd's perceived "China bias" had caused concerns in Indonesia, Japan and India.
  • Mr Robb said the Prime Minister had sent a "gun boat" after Japanese whaling ships without picking up the phone to Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda.
  • Rika Ninomiya on 14 Aug 09
     
    Very very interesting article on the relationship between Japan and Australia. Especially, after reading an article I posted previously on Okasa and Melbourne being Sister Cities. Apparently Australian government is against whaling done by Japanese and trying to gather evidence, spending over $1million, to bring Japan to an international court. And the article also mentioned how Mr Rudd is seen as Pro-China but Anti-Japan, Indonesia and India, making these countries worry.
xinning ji

Nova to screen Uighur film - Film - Entertainment - theage.com.au - 0 views

www.theage.com.au/...1249152556173.html

shared by xinning ji on 12 Aug 09 - Cached
  • It would have been easy for us to err on the side of caution, but we felt it wouldn’t be fair to the filmmakers to rescind our offer
    • xinning ji
      xinning ji on 13 Aug 09
       
      based on my understanding, what Nova general manager trying to say is to give free speech and equality to every filmmaker, rather than take any political action against Chinese government. But it is hard to make sense because when the film is going to release to the public, it will influence on audiences, and change their behaviour and attitude. more seriously, it will lead to misunderstaning and grudge to people who do not really know or know little about China. It is hard to judge who is right or wrong, but hopefully, one day we can get mutual respect and understand among different cultures and religions.
Isabella Han

Chinese Popular Culture - 0 views

www.geocities.com/...6080

shared by Isabella Han on 23 Aug 09 - Cached
  • Isabella Han on 23 Aug 09
     
    this is a very interesting websit! hope you enjoy it^^
Rika Ninomiya

QANTAS eyes Malaysia | The Australian - 0 views

www.theaustralian.news.com.au/...0,,24824650-20142,00.html

globalization cultural imperialism hybridization Qantas

shared by Rika Ninomiya on 22 Aug 09 - Cached
  • QANTAS may pursue Malaysia Airlines following the demise of the Australian carrier's $8 billion merger plans with British Airways.
  • Qantas had wanted majority ownership in the deal, reflecting its bigger market value, but BA was not prepared to become a junior partner.
  • faced a number of significant hurdles
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  • Malaysia Airlines, run by savvy ex-petroleum industry executive Idris Jala, appeared the most likely partnership option in Asia
  • merger with Singapore Airlines, often touted as a good match, was unlikely because of questions of control and potential competition issues
  • He believed another possibility often raised, Cathay Pacific, was also unlikely, as were Thai Airways, Garuda, Philippine Airlines and the Chinese carriers.
  • However, he did not rule out a possible partnership with another European carrier or Japan Airlines in the longer term.
  • Rika Ninomiya on 22 Aug 09
     
    The article talks about Qantas's pursue of Malaysian Airline and other foreign airlines to merge with them. By merging with other major airline, Qantas is hoping to operate in more places which would help increase their market share in the world.
Rika Ninomiya

China eyes Asian and Western media funds | The Australian - 1 views

www.theaustralian.news.com.au/...0,,25941977-36418,00.html

Korea Japan Hollywood China Globalization CulturalProduct

shared by Rika Ninomiya on 25 Sep 09 - No Cached
  • CHINA Investment Corporation, the $US200billion ($243bn) state-run sovereign wealth fund, is planning to invest in several Western and Asian media funds.
  • The investments could give the Chinese government a direct stake in a rich variety of media content -- from South Korean television dramas and Japanese game shows to Hollywood blockbusters and globally franchised animation series.
jung moon

China's youth look to Seoul for inspiration - 0 views

www.chinadaily.com.cn/...content_509119_5.htm

korean wave chinese pop culture east asian pop culture

shared by jung moon on 27 Aug 09 - Cached
  • jung moon on 27 Aug 09
     
    Korean wave in China (this article is written in 2006 but it is still useful)
Maria D'Amato

'Slip carefully!' : Shanghai tackles bad English before expo - 0 views

www.theage.com.au/...before-expo-20090826-eyxl.html

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shared by Maria D'Amato on 27 Aug 09 - Cached
  • The Shanghai government, along with neighbouring Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces
  • standardise signs and eliminate notoriously bad, and sometimes amusing, English translations.
  • A malfunctioning online translation tool may have helped a restaurant named "Translate server error"
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  • Last year a city-wide inspection by Shanghai's Language Affairs Commission found that more than one in 10 signs had incorrect translations
  • Beijing ran a similar campaign in preparation for last year's Olympics.
  • The Shanghai government, along with neighbouring Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces, published a 20-page guide book this week to standardise signs and eliminate notoriously bad, and sometimes amusing, English translations.
  • The official campaign prompted local media to share favourite mistranslations. At Shanghai's iconic Oriental Pearl Tower, visitors are warned "Ragamuffin, drunken people and psychotics are forbidden to enter", according to the Shanghaiist city blog.
  • Last year a city-wide inspection by Shanghai's Language Affairs Commission found that more than one in 10 signs had incorrect translations, the China Daily reported.
  • The city is preparing to hold the biggest-ever World Expo from May 1 to October 31. The city expects 70 million people, the vast majority of them Chinese, to attend the event, featuring pavilions from nearly 190 countries.
  • Blaze Yau on 27 Aug 09
     
    Lost in translation?
Yu Cao

BBC NEWS | Asia-Pacific | Xinjiang violence: Views from China - 0 views

news.bbc.co.uk/...8143107.stm

ethnics community conflict china

shared by Yu Cao on 05 Oct 09 - Cached
  • e violence. Information should be released step by step, not at once. If they let people comment freely, anger and hatred will spread quickly and some Han Chinese might want to retaliate against Uighurs.
  • national unity.
  • But these privileges fail to bring true benefits to the Uighur people.
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  • And some of them feel that they have been marginalised. I think this is the fundamental reason for the unrest.
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