Although it might seem counter-intuitive, China's manufacturing sector has emerged strengthened by the recent turmoil in global financial markets and the PRC is moving up fast on the services front as well...    more »

US networking giant Cisco has teamed up with Fudan University to create the Cisco-Fudan-Stanford Supply Chain Leadership Institute, which has officially launched its first training programme...    more »

Salvation could be at hand for UK borrowers desperate to get back on the property ladder in the shape of Bank of China which, amazingly, believes now is a good time to enter the UK mortgage market...    more »

Taiwan, aka the Republic of China, has stolen a lead over its bigger mainland rival, the PRC, by committing to hard targets for reductions in greenhouse gas emissions...    more »

China's three largest power generators together emitted more CO2 than the UK's total emissions in 2008. Greenpeace is urging China's top ten power companies to reduce their heavy reliance on coal and to stop dragging their feet over their renewable energy obligation...    more »

More than 2,600 people have fallen ill in Inner Mongolia after their tap water supply was contaminated during heavy rainfall. It remains striking that the word's second biggest economy cannot guarantee safe drinking water for its population...    more »

Management books tell multinationals to let local Chinese executives handle the day-to-day operations of their China offices. But a hands-off management style can be interpreted locally as a weakness as Germany's Business Media China discovered to its cost...    more »

Chinese conglomerate Yu Wan Mei has a saying "Fish time is success time" and that motto has helped put the company on a solid growth trajectory and also on the cover of satirical magazine The Onion...   more »

Food producers are being accused of failing to take action over food contamination and poor quality standards. Oh no, not another food scare story from China. Wrong, this time it is Korea that is in the dock...   more »

For those who always meant to learn Chinese but never can quite find the time, TargetChinese may be the answer. Created by New Oriental Education & Technology Group, the fast-growing provider of private educational services...    more »