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• Briefly…Top Ten Tweets (From Iron Ore, Common Errors & IPR, To Adult Arbitration, Panda Huggers & Dragon Slayers) Chinese New Year may be approaching, but Chinese business news is still flowing. This week’s pick of the ChinaBlogTweets news includes some updates on long-running corporate stories we have been following (Rio Tinto and Hummer), some economic projections (and contentions), our constant favourite (risk and due diligence), as well as some good news on the […]
• Don’t Quote Me…On Working The System A very nice post, entitled “Floating Houses, Conflicting Laws, And Really Nice Governmental Officials. China Law Practice Writ Large” from Dan Harris over at China Law Blog, who picked up on a piece from Stan Abrams’ China Hearsay.

  The concluding message is the focus for the purposes of our “Don’t Quote Me” series:
  “Bottom Line: If you […]

• Briefly…Top Ten Tweets (From Rapid Urbanisation, Rich Consumers & The 2nd Tier, To Woes for Water, Barbie Dolls & Google…& More)
  Consumers: RT @MasterCardNews: MC A/P Economist: Rapid urbanization in China boosts consumption-led growth http://bit.ly/ahbPTU 4:53 AM Jan 28th from Echofon
  A question of appreciation: CNY 4 RMB?? RT @TheLexColumn: When it comes to the renminbi…what would you do? http://tinyurl.com/ydgx8gb 2:14 PM Jan 27th from Echofon [Others have their own suggestions…RT @UKTI_JGordon: 5%?…RT @BullishChina: China May […]
• Chengdu Investment News: August 1, 20091. GDP increased by 14.3 % in first half year
  In the first half of this year, Chengdu’s GDP has increased by 14.3%, far higher than the national GDP growth of 7.1%, while the second quarter’s growth rate is 2% higher than that of the first quarter; over half of the task has been realized in […]
• All Roads On the MoveJust a quick note for everyone to let you know that we are in the process of moving to a new server.  With any luck it will end the “service unavailable been receiving off and on.  Not 100% sure if we will be 100% by Monday, but I think we are only hours away from […]
• Hong Kong Is Put on Notice. Take the Back Seat to Shanghai.When the RMB first moved from 8.28 to 8.11 per USD, it was rumored that Beijing would look to hold the RMB at the HKD/ USD peg for a while, then remove the HKD. It was one of those rumors that made some in my circle begin to wonder just how much longer Hong Kong […]