Archive for the ‘Asia business’ Category
Tuesday, July 1st, 2008
Can You make money with Your personal blog? Some friends asked me this question, when I told them, that I put advertisements on my private blog. Honestly, it has been more of an experiment in the beginning. But let's start in the very beginning, in the dark past, when I ...
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Sunday, June 29th, 2008
Hongkong is wealthy, but how much money and bling bling is there really? Today I picked up a copy of The Standard (free HK newspaper that You get on the Street in English and Chinese) and there was an article about the wealth of Hongkong.
How many...?
Ah yes, how many Millionaires ...
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Friday, May 2nd, 2008
My last post was about if learning Chinese is worth the effort, especially with a look on the recent visa changes. I also listed my main reasons why I am in China, one of them is WORK. Justrecently who is a fellow German and has a blog about the political ...
Posted in Asia business, China in General, Improve Yourself | 4 Comments »
Tuesday, April 29th, 2008
Recently I heard this this dialog:
- Hey man, I want to invest in China, I want to settle here, can I do that? I mean because of visa and stuf...
- Sure You can. The law states You can. But we don't know if this law still exists tomorrow.
Two weeks later, ...
Posted in Asia business, China in General, Improve Yourself, Learn Chinese | 8 Comments »
Saturday, January 12th, 2008
I just got my Chinese name. It has been a long journey, but now my girlfriend gave me my new name.
jùn jié. Which could be translated as very talented person. However jùn has more meanings beside talented. It also means smart or handsome. I'll go with these 2 instead of ...
Posted in Asia business, China in General, Improve Yourself, Learn Chinese, Various stuff | 4 Comments »
Friday, December 7th, 2007
The Richter Scales - Here comes another bubble (Chinese subtitles)
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Sunday, November 25th, 2007
Being in the process of finding an internship in China I realized is quite hard. If You are studying something like marketing, economics or logistics then You will find more jobs than You can read in Your lifetime. As an IT guy however the options are way smaller. Especially since ...
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Thursday, November 22nd, 2007
Some days ago I posted my CV on some job website in China to get an internship. I didn't have to wait very long. 2 days later I received a letter:
Dear namewe are a language school located in downtown Beijing. we believe that we are the right school ...
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Wednesday, November 7th, 2007
The shares of the e-commerce company Alibaba.com almost tripled on the first day of trading, November 06 2007 . It was an great start for the world's largest initial public offering by an e-commerce company since Google Inc.
The initial price for the share was HK$13.50. At the end of the ...
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