Video At the elegant Italian restaurant Cipriani in Hong Kong, I sat across from William Shen, senior partner at Headland Capital, to hear what he has to say to China Money Network about investing in China’s consumer industry. He should know. For nearly two decades, he has studied, consulted and invested in

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Video At the elegant Italian restaurant Cipriani in Hong Kong, I sat across from William Shen, senior partner at Headland Capital, to hear what he has to say to China Money Network about investing in China’s consumer industry. He should know. For nearly two decades, he has studied, consulted and invested in

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A new study from the Chinese Academy of Sciences claims as much as 80% of Chinese cities are failing to achieve a balance between economic growth, resource efficiency and sustainable development. The study, published in a report entitled “Creating Prosperous and Livable Chinese Cities” and done in collaboration between Accenture and CAS, covered 73 cities

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The Yuyangguan Town Hope Primary School is the recipient of a new solar energy system. South Korea-based Hanwha Group and Hanwha SolarOne plan to donate a 30 kW solar PV system that provides continuous power support to the school in Wufeng County, Hubei province. Commissioned by Hanwha Group, Hanwha SolarOne (Qidong) Company Ltd. will design

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The latest Snowden revelations that governments in the U.S., Canada, Australia, and elsewhere have broken encryption are not entirely new. Nor should people be surprised. After all, key encryption protocols were developer by U.S. government spy agencies, so we should always expect some sort of backdoor access or undisclosed weakness.

That doesn’t make these public revelations any less worrisome.

As for Virtual Private Networks, news outlets are reporting…

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The latest Snowden revelations that governments in the U.S., Canada, Australia, and elsewhere have broken encryption are not entirely new. Nor should people be surprised. After all, key encryption protocols were developer by U.S. government spy agencies, so we should always expect some sort of backdoor access or undisclosed weakness.

That doesn’t make these public revelations any less worrisome.

As for Virtual Private Networks, news outlets are reporting…

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Beijing-based e-commerce firm LightInTheBox Holding Company Ltd. is facing a possible securities class action lawsuit against it and some of its senior officers. Law firm Robbins Geller Rudman & Dowd LLP says that a class action has been commenced in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York on behalf of

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The Open Networking Foundation says the Beijing Internet Institute will be ONF’s first international certified conformance testing lab in Asia. The certified testing lab establishes conformance testing in China and provides SDN technical testing services to global clients. BII’s testing lab in China evaluates vendors’ networking products for interoperability, conformance, function, and performance. The company

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A lot of folks are talking about the spectacle of expat investigators Peter Humphrey and Yu Yinzeng, who have been caught up in the GSK bribery scandal:

On Tuesday, the couple appeared on China’s central broadcaster CNTV handcuffed and wearing orange prison vests, their faces blurred, admitting to “buying and selling” information in the course of various fraud investigations.

“The information that we had on individuals was sometimes obtained by illegal…

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I’m sorry, but this is the big China scandal of the week, an accusation that a big investment bank hired family members of the rich and powerful? Seriously, is this some sort of journalistic practical joke from The Onion?

I report, you decide (if this is silly):

he Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is looking at whether the bank’s Hong Kong office hired the children of powerful heads of state-owned companies…

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