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Six months to the date of arriving in Beijing I have been rewarded by becoming the proud proprietor of a Chinese Wholly Owned Foreign Enterprise, and departed for Singapore midweek with lots of good news for the team, and with an excited Judy for whom this was her first trip outside of China. business licenceOn th...
01.08.06 03:52 AM - Comment(s)
The Chinese have a saying that ‘"from chaos comes opportunity," and this has proven to be the case for those able to overcome the obstacles created by the government. I am now feeling increasingly confident that EASTWEST China is starting to operate as a functional business and that life i...
13.07.06 09:51 AM - Comment(s)
02 July 2006 I feel as though I am swimming in a huge sea of change, the shifting sands of government regulation making navigation jim_4harder and the rising tide of inflation consuming my resources faster than I had hoped,  but as it is as far to swim for home as it is to shore, I keep the mental ...
05.07.06 04:16 PM - Comment(s)
25 June 2006 forbidden_city_in_the_eveningThis week I came up against the might and mercurial instincts of Chinese administration, whose ‘promulgation’ of Ordinance 14 places a road block firmly in the path of my Company registration, and encountered the canine features of the Immigration service; both authorities impenetrable...
05.07.06 03:58 PM - Comment(s)

This week my mother, jie jie (elder sister) Shelley and I spent a wonderful holiday in Yangshuo, 2 hours flight south of Beijing, and realised that tourism in China is alive and well, and that it is also illustrating my growing sense that there are two China’s.

Apparently 95 million Chinese went on h...

14.05.06 05:34 PM - Comment(s)