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Eerie foreshadowing of Huang Guangyu's fate

Posted Monday, December 01, 2008 5:54 AM by will
If you follow China business news then you've probably heard or read about the arrest of Huang Guangyu , chairman of the huge Gome home appliance store chain and China's richest man. As Time's Austin Ramzy points out , being named on China's rich list Read More...
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Sanlu melamine milk powder crisis becomes a national issue

Posted Wednesday, September 17, 2008 1:05 AM by will
Like on the top-forty radio show Imagethief used to listen to as a thirteen-year old, the hits keep coming in the Sanlu milk powder crisis. Over the past thirty-six hours the situation has evolved from a company-specific Sanlu crisis to a nationwide dairy-industry Read More...
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Melamine in Sanlu milk powder? Now that's a crisis!

Posted Monday, September 15, 2008 6:56 AM by will
If you want to get people mad --I mean fired-up, torch-and-pitchfork enraged-- screw with their pets or their babies. That's what we've learned over the past year thanks to the unfortunate tendency of the plastic melamine to pop up in the strangest places, Read More...
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Why child-singing-gate is a PR perfect storm -- Amended

Posted Thursday, August 14, 2008 2:52 AM by will
Amended: Sorry--this wasn't meant to be published. It was a placeholder and a few notes for a possible full-length post. Apologies to all those who thought I'd got lazy and decided to move the tweet format into my regular blog posts. However, for posterity, Read More...
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Shaming companies into donating

Posted Thursday, May 22, 2008 6:52 AM by will
Good post from Stan Abrams at China Hearsay on companies (and individuals) being shamed into making contributions to earthquake relief: Humiliating individuals and enterprises for not contributing enough to earthquake relief is taking all this a bit too Read More...
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"Politics is one thing but the people have to eat..."

Posted Thursday, May 01, 2008 9:54 AM by will
Nationalist outrage succumbs to low, low prices. And lowering of the control rods by the government. From the New York Times : On Thursday, the first day of a planned boycott against Carrefour, a French department store chain here, there were a few low-key Read More...
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Inside Carrefour's crisis management in China

Posted Wednesday, April 30, 2008 2:16 AM by will
From ESWN, a translation of a China Business story (δΈ­) that gets under the hood of Carrefour's crisis management in China following the calls for a boycott. The story is very critical of Carrefour's management of the issue, and its worth a read for anyone Read More...
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