-September 15, 2010 The Commerce Department has said that Retail sales in the US increased 0.4 percent in August, which was the second straight monthly increase and the biggest since March. This lends further evidence that a second recession is not on the way. A separate Commerce report has said inventories held by businesses increased [...]
-September 15, 2010 The Wall Street Journal has reported on Tuesday that Apple Inc’s iPad tablet computer will officially be on sale in China this week. Apple ann ounced on Monday that it will sell the Wi-Fi models of the iPad through its two Apple stores in China and through authorized resellers, starting at 10 [...]
-September 15, 2010 Felix Mutati, Zambia’s trade minister, said he was hopeful of finalizing Chinese funding for a new $1.5 billion power station in the southern African country. This comes as the minister is in talks in Beijing with senior figures from Sinohydro Corporation. It was revealed last month that Sinohydro was also going to [...]
-September 15, 2010 A report by Deustche Bank has stated that China”s e-commerce market is expected to reach 1.5 trillion yuan ($220 billion) by 2014. The report further pointed out that two main areas, the business to consumer (B2C) and consumer to consumer (C2C) are expected to increase by a compound annual growth rate of [...]
-September 15, 2010 In addition to Sun Tzu Art of War Introduction Series, I would like to kindly present to you the Business Sales Introduction Series. This is one in many of which I will post. Therefore, I would like to cordially ask my readers to reply whether they would want more articles that would [...]
-September 13, 2010 Victor chu Lap-lik, a verteran investor has said that icreasing uncertainty about a global recovery will fuel opportunity for low-cost airlines in the region. Chu’s family private equity firm, called First Eastern Investment has set up a joint venture with All Nippon Airlines for the first budget airline in Japan under a [...]
-September 13, 2010 Li Shufu, founder and chairman of Geely Automobile Holdings, shocked the the world once when Geely acquired the 82-year-old luxury-car-maker Volvo earlier this year. However, he will surprise the world once more by selling cars online. Geely, China’s largest privately-owned car maker, has announced its plans to sell cars that would be [...]
-September 13, 2010 China’s Daily has reported that Experts have announced that China can still maintain its inflationtarget this year through “through proper management of expectations during the final quarter”. Fan Jianping, senior economist with the State Information Center(CIS) said on Sunday that The consumer price index (CPI), is expected to rise in September as [...]
This week, we will discuss and add a bit more to the first article I wrote in the Sun Tzu Art of War, regarding the five fundamentals devised by Sun Tzu, which were important considerations when waging war against another country. The five fundamentals, as I have previously discussed before were the way( dao); the [...]
-September 9, 2010 AGTech Holdings(8279) is a Sports lottery firm that has received approval from Chinese Authorities to to launch a car-racing lottery platform in Hunan. The computer-generated races, similar to the one in Shandong that is owned through different venturs, can initially be viewed at 4,800 lottery shops in the province. The platform will [...]