According to Reuters, Dunkin Donuts will be breaking into the Chinese market with pork flavored donuts! “Donuts are a very flexible product. You can do savory donuts, you can do donuts with shredded pork — that’s in China,” Chief Executive Officer Nigel Travis told Reuters in an interview. “We also have a range of other […]
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What could you accomplish in fifteen days? In only 360 hours the Chinese sustainable building company, Broad Group, built a 30-story tall hotel.
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A lot of focus has been placed on the need to grow small business in the United States, but what about China? A recent article from AFP highlights a need for change in the way money is loaned to small businesses in their country. China’s banks — which are not allowed to charge higher interest
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Decades of outsourcing manufacturing have left US industry without the means to invent the next generation of high-tech products. How did it get this way? This excerpt from the book The Innovator’s Prescription by Clayton Christensen, Jerome Grossman and Jason Hwang, with comment from Forbes, may help answer that: ASUSTeK started out making the simple
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According to the the father and son team behind Sleek Audio, it’s all because of the quality. CNN: When Mark Krywko and his son, Jason, launched Sleek Audio, a small business making in-ear headphones for iPods and other audio devices from a Florida town near St. Petersburg, they asked several U.S. manufacturers for quotes on
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Google’s not the only one with a robotic self driving car. China’s interested too: The car starts, steers safely to its destination 286 kilometers away and stops – all without a human driver. No, it’s not a scene from some Hollywood sci-fi movie, but an actual event on July 14 over an expressway linking Changsha
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NewsCore: Chinese scientists have genetically modified dairy cows to produce human breast milk, and hope to be selling it in supermarkets within three years. The milk produced by the transgenic cows is identical to the human variety, with the same immune-boosting and antibacterial qualities as breast milk, scientists at China’s Agricultural University in Beijing said.
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China Daily reports that cities across China have banned traffic and construction noise this week to create a conducive testing environment for more than 9.57 million high school students sitting for their college entrance exams, starting Monday. The high schoolers will compete for only 6.57 million slots at China’s universities and colleges. If an emergency
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Business Week: As MIT political scientist and China expert Ed Steinfeld says, “China [is] one of the most entrepreneurial places on earth.” Perhaps this observation doesn’t surprise you, given what’s been happening to the Chinese economy in recent years. But you might not recognize how widespread entrepreneurship is in China, or why the country is
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800CEORead: When Joe Bennett bought a six-pack of underwear in his local supermarket for five dollars, he wondered who on earth could be making any money, let alone profit, from the exchange. How many processes and middlemen are involved? Where and how is the underwear made? And who decides on the absorbent qualities of the
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