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I am a big fan of Haruki Murakami and his wonderful, magical novels and short stories. So I was delighted to find “What Startups Can Learn From Haruki Murakami”. As

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Just back from Beijing. Loved the Olympics and had the chance to see Michael Phelps win his all important eighth gold medal. Even more than the Olympic Games I loved

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Percentage of Chinese that under no circumstances want to be reborn as a Chinese: 67 brand eins Wirtschaftsmagazin 01/07

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This morning I had the most delightful service experience in China ever. Went to renew my visa and even though I was already a little late there was no fuss,

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Time is flying and things are in perpetual motion. Spent a few days in Hong Kong, one of my all-time favourite cities in the world, to escape the never-ending rain

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Back in Shanghai. The city feels subdued. Smaller, more silent, like a blanket made of something unspoken is thrown over it. Don’t know if it’s the shock of the earth

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A bad word whispered will echo a hundred miles. [Chinese proverb]

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Another story from the realms of the greatness of Chinese leaders. Wang Lili, a 52 years old photographer got sacked by the newspaper he was working for, the Tongzhou News,

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