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Pittsburgh Post Gazette
'Sister cities' meet as mayor's visit to China ends
SHANGHAI -- As the Pittsburgh delegation's visit to China came to a close Tuesday, Mayor Luke Ravenstahl did two things he hasn't been able to do in Pittsburgh: meet with officials from sister city Wuhan and ride a magnetic levitation train.
October 13, 2010
Pittsburgh Post Gazette
Ravenstahl calls China visit a success
SHANGHAI, China -- Speaking with potential Chinese investors Monday, Pittsburgh Mayor Luke Ravenstahl said he "just laid out the Pittsburgh story -- why we are where we are. We laid out the 30-year transformation."
Oct 12, 2010
Pittsburgh Post Gazette
Pittsburgh on display in China
SHANGHAI, China -- "Chung sher, raahng shung hwo gung may hao," said a confident Mayor Luke Ravenstahl.
October 11, 2010
Pittsburgh Post Gazette
Ravenstahl team meets with Chinese companies
SHANGHAI, China -- Despite ending with a cruise on a river, Mayor Luke Ravenstahl spent the third day of his 10-day trip to Asia almost entirely indoors, reviewing agendas and shaking hands on behalf of Pittsburgh.
October 10, 2010
Pittsburgh Post Gazette
Shanghai tries to charm Ravenstahl, delegation
SHANGHAI -- Mayor Luke Ravenstahl drank up the panoramic view of Shanghai with his morning Diet Pepsi 59 floors above Shanghai.
October 8, 2010+
TOLEDO Blade
Toledo Mayor Bell connects with 'family' in China
Sunday started with "family" - a metaphorical sister, actually. Representatives of Toledo's Chinese sister city, Qinhuangdao, arrived at 7:30 a.m.
September 20, 2010
TOLEDO Blade
After many miles, meals, Toledo has friend in Yulin
YULIN, China - The plush red mat in every elevator at the five-star Ordos Holiday Inn read "Xingqi Liu - Saturday" (literally translated: sixth day of the week), but make no mistake, just as on the seventh day of the Toledo delegation's 11-day...
September 19, 2010
TOLEDO Blade
Mayor Bell dazzled by building frenzy in Inner Mongolia
Shanghai Airlines Flight 9149 was on the ground for no more than a minute Friday morning before Toledo Mayor Mike Bell looked out the window and found what he was looking for.
September 18, 2010
TOLEDO Blade
Mayor Bell in full-go mode in Shanghai
Toledo Mayor Mike Bell, on the sixth day of his 11-day trip through China, continued to embrace Shanghai with the eagerness of a front-row student, the wonderment of an explorer, and the charm of a statesman.
September 17, 2010
ad age china
Mobile ads hit Shanghai Streets
Shanghai-based Hudson Advertising Co. has come up with another first for China's most sophisticated consumer market, a truck with a five sq. meter plasma screen on each side that airs TV spots, including audio, visible to other vehicles as well as pedestrians.
March 28, 2007
Shanghai Business Review
Scrutinising Quality and Control
As China’s manufacturing muscle has recently been blemished in overseas markets and
media, businesses are looking in to re-examine suppliers, practices and protocols.
September, 2007 (page 24)
Shanghai Business Review
Empire State Eyes Middle Kingdom
With various foreign regional investment groups – representing cities, states, port authorities –
racing to do business with Shanghai, and China, it is a wonder that the State of New York remains
idling on the sidelines.
August, 2007 (page 24)
The Times Union
Sending trade reps Far East
Oliver Lu, the general manager of Niskayuna-based SI Group's plant here, was outlining plans to Shanghai environmental protection bureau officials last July when he said he thought he saw the blood run out of his listeners' faces.
May 20, 2007
Shanghai Business Review
Investing in Agricultural Technology
Germany-based BASF, the world's largest chemical manufacturer, wants to know how fungi become resistant to their fungicide products. They're banking that the brains at Nanjing Agricultural University will find the answer. They are not alone.
February, 2007
THE INDEPENDENT
One man's battle to hunt down typhoons
In September 2006, after experiencing the force of typhoon Xangsane, James Reynolds became convinced that there were even bigger, more devastating disasters waiting to happen. Now his reports carry a warning: the world's emissions are cooking up stronger storms for the vulnerable, forgotten peoples along Asia's crowded coastlines.
June 13, 2007
The Asia Society
Asia Draws R&D Investment
Motorola's computer scientists have succeeded in developing a recognition technology to translate handwriting in many of the world's leading languages into cellphone text messages. But this success was not achieved in Silicon Valley.
December 4, 2006
Computerworld
Outsourcing in China
SHANGHAI -- Unlike India's large and thriving outsourcing industry, China's is still immature and fragmented, with few companies attaining high-level international certifications. Moreover, most of the IT outsourcing that happens in China today serves that country's domestic market, such as the financial services sector.
November 6, 2006
Computerworld
Bridging the Chinese Skills Gap: Despite vast numbers of IT graduates, suitable talent is hard to find
SHANGHAI -- Hankscraft Inc. has been making industrial motors and mechanized pumps for more than 50 years in Reedsburg, Wis. The company came to China just three years ago but already has twice as many employees here as it has at home. Jonathan Funkhouser, who is general manager of Hankscraft's China operations and who makes the top-level technology decisions, thought it was going to be hard to get all the government approvals he would need in order to set up shop in China. But that turned out to be the easy part. "Finding good employees and managers was the most difficult," he says.
June 26, 2006
Computerworld
Language Barriers
Among the various sourcing peculiarities and problems specific to China is regionalism, says Pieter Tsiknas, director of SearchBank's Beijing office. Although all Chinese nationals officially speak Mandarin, in practice, the local dialects can be mutually unintelligible. Shanghainese, for example, is a completely different language from Mandarin, and employees from Shanghai may speak Mandarin with an accent. Similar regional linguistic differences exist in other parts of China as well.
June 26, 2006
CMO Magazine
Back to the future
Jim Murphy learned about marketing to Chinese customers in bars. When he first came to China in December of 2004, he didn't think that consumers here could afford or were interested in the relatively pricey Jack Daniel's whiskey that his company, Brown-Forman, produced.
January, 2006
Albany Times-Union
A terrible threat from the north
SHANGHAI -- It was so nice to wake up the other morning and hear the head of the government take full responsibility for the results of an investigation into a scandal that has rocked the nation, embarrassed the party, and compromised the public integrity of key leading officials. It was just too bad that the country was Canada, and that the news was coming to me via the CBC based in Calgary.
November 25, 2005
CIO Insight
Trends: Chinese Legal System Hinders IP Protection Efforts
If finding a software pirate is as simple as walking down the street and looking around for wheelbarrows, why is China--home of the largest authoritarian government on the planet--having problems catching these guys?
October 24, 2005
CIO Insight
Trends: Cost for Windows falls -- to 50 cents -- in China
Despite three years of attention by lawmaking committees and a steadily increasing roster of laws protecting intellectual property, China is a shopper's paradise for all things pirated--handbags, jewelry, movie DVDs, and, of course, software.
October 20, 2005
The Albany Times Union
Teaching,
Learning are One in China
SHANGHAI, China -- I'm watching a DVD of ``Blazing Saddles''
that cost the equivalent of a dollar. The entire movie is
subtitled in Mandarin, including the Yiddish spoken by one
of Mel Brooks' characters, an Indian chief. At the Pudong
International Airport, travelers purchase phone cards from
an "Intelligent Card Dispenser.'' A sign, also in English,
reads "International & Hong Kong/Macau/Taiwan.''
February 3, 2004
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