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China's Next Great Thing

Though China's factories fill our shelves, it has yet to produce truly powerful global companies or brands. That's about to change.READ»

Change Management: US Recession Impacting India

Signs of a recessionary US economy are being seen thousands of miles away in India. India’s apparel exporters are facing canceled orders and dried up pipelines, a result of a weakening US economy and a strengthening Indian Rupee ...READ»

Can Indian Banks survive with thinner NIM

Every Indian Banks have declared good growth and good profit over the last years performance if compared on year to year basis despite the effect of recession looming large and adeherence to Basel II capital adquacy norms. The ...READ»

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China Auto Sales Rise 72% Hit 1.2 Million Units

Global automakers are looking to China's fast-growing market to drive sales amid slack demand elsewhere. Sales have been spurred by tax cuts and subsidies meant to help nurture China's auto industry and encourage purchases of more fuel-efficient vehicles. Beijing's 4 trillion yuan ($586 billion) stimulus has helped to prop up spending on cars and other big-ticket items, and lifted economic growth (GDP) in the latest quarter to 8.9% from a year earlier. China, Brazil, Australia and India are both seeing significant economic growth. READ»

China Hands

Is China the next economic superpower? Ming Zeng of Cheung Kong business school and Elizabeth Economy from the Council on Foreign Relations hash it out.READ»

Exhibition Stand supplier in China YoHo Expo

As China's economy grows,more foreign companies market China by attending trade show promotions,it creats a new business feild called trade show booth contractor,YoHo Expo has beening offering booth design and construction service for ...READ»

You Down with GDP? II

In response to an entry earlier this week, FC Now reader Jivha indicates that Indian finance minister Jaswant Singh employs the metric Gross National Contentment. Jivha expands on the two concepts in a blog entitled The Tongue.READ»

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China’s textile industry in need of product innovation

Textile is one of China’s largest industries; it contributes US$ 420 billion to the national GDP. Exports of China’s textile industry were valued at US$178 billion in 2007 and contributed US$150 billion to China’s trade ...READ»

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Is China the Next U.S. Renewable Energy Superhero?

Oh, the irony. All-American oilman T. Boone Pickens scraps his plans for the world's biggest wind farm--a $10 billion project in Texas--and who comes in to pick up the pieces? China. The communist country is honing in on the Texas ...READ»

China in Africa

Mining Copper in Zambia

I ask Xiao Ye, an Africa statistical researcher for the World Bank, whether a clear chart or table exists laying out the full extent of China's economic involvement in Africa. "I don't know anyone who has done such a ...READ»

Despite crisis, Vietnam a lot more attractive investment than Thailand, senior executives agree

63% of senior business executives believe that Vietnam is now a more attractive investment opportunity than Thailand, according to figures released this week by Solidiance.READ»

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Kyoto Musings

I am taking the bullet train this morning from Tokyo to Kyoto to go speak at the 2008 Japanese TRIZ Symposium.  While in Japan, I have also had the chance to meet with several members of the Japanese innovation community.  It is ...READ»

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Fast Talk: China Rising

We talked to five of the best and brightest recent Chinese MBA grads -- whose careers will be followed in a 20-year study by Katzenbach Partners -- about China's future and their own hopes and dreams.READ»

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United States The World's Number One Innovator?

The Global Innovation Index, a ranking of 130 countries released yesterday, calls the US the world's number one innovator. The index was created by Soumitra Dutta, a professor at French business school INSEAD, along with New Delhi ...READ»

New Challenges for Japan

In a recent conversation, I had the opportunity to hear Peter Drucker discussing potential challenges faced by Japan: China, South Korea and other parts of the region are becoming increasingly competitive. For example, the ...READ»

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Burberry and the Next Big Brands to Come From the East

The plaid giant's significant expansion in Singapore signals the winning strategy for becoming a global brand: Woo Asian customers first.READ»