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China’s digital wolves
China’s tech giants are running in packs looking for employees willing to devour the competition 31 May 2020 | Tas Walter (Image: APAC Digital / Marc-Olivier Jodoin) Late last year a senior strategist at a […]
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Virgin bride stuck at the altar
The Queensland government’s bid for Virgin Airlines is the latest in a number of proposals but who will commit until “death does them part”. Michael West reports on the troubled airline’s future. 24 May 2020 […]
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A digital map for China e-commerce
Thinking of entering China’s e-commerce market? Get a map or get a big surprise 23 May 2020 | Tas Walter People always attribute language and culture as the most significant challenges when doing business with […]
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China drops GDP target
The Chinese government’s GDP target is suspended due to COVID-19 uncertainty but that shouldn’t worry China’s major trading partners 23 May 2020 | Marcus Reubenstein (Image: Xinhua) For the first time ever, China will not set an […]
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Legitimate beef or a load of bull?
So much for the feared China foreign investment invasion, in the first big COVID-19 foreign land sale Chinese investors have sold back a parcel of Australian grazing land six times the size of Hong Kong […]
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Virgin Australia. Bailout or buyout?
Having already primed the economy with a stimulus package worth a whopping 10 percent of GDP, the government will soon have other problems, Michael West reports on a neat solution to a very untidy problem, the […]
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Maintaining banking system safety amid the COVID-19 crisis
The global banking system faces extraordinary pressures that will remain after the health crisis has been controlled 1 April 2020 | Tobias Adrian & Aditya Narain, IMF (IMAGE: Jan Kolario) Today we face economic upheaval […]
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Swine fever driving beef prices
Controlling the coronavirus outbreak is the number one priority for China; but the decimation of the swine herd is an issue that will remain and have an impact on Australian beef producers 11 February 2020 […]
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Gorilla in the Mist: Uber’s opaque business
In March 2019 a director of Uber Australia told a conference in Paris that Uber accepted OECD anti-tax dodging reforms for multinationals and acknowledged the company would face “additional tax”. He didn’t mention, Uber was […]
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Science of nutrition a point of difference among a myriad of brands
Sydney mother Jane Meng has taken a science-based approach to nutrition saying it’s not only improved her family’s health but created a great business opportunity 8 December 2019 | Marcus Reubenstein The rise of the […]
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Bellamy’s $1.43 billion price tag doesn’t equal an Australian icon
An “iconic image” but no proof that Bellamy’s owns a cow or a farm (image: bellamy’s website) A week after approval of its takeover of Bellamy’s, China Mengniu picks up a bundle of Australia’s best-known […]
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Great lessons from CSL’s quarter century
A small Australian government laboratory founded in 1916 is now the world’s single largest collector of blood plasma A case study in performance: 25 years from government science laboratory to major market player 31 […]
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The Business Culture Ambassador
BUILDING HIS CAREER ON CULTURAL UNDERSTANDING, COLIN WEI IS DRIVEN TO SHARE HIS PASSION WITH YOUNG CHINESE-AUSTRALIANS Colin Wei is determined to see the next generation of Chinese-Australians not just learn a new language but […]
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Small to medium-sized businesses urged to think outside of the box
BUSINESS ADVISORY BOARDS, MANDATED FOR LISTED COMPANIES IN GERMANY, ARE SOMETHING TO CONSIDER FOR SMEs Smaller enterprises are more often than not driven by the energy and ideas of their owners but slowed down by […]
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Retail giant Suning completes acquisition of Carrefour China
Nanjing-based online retailer buys out French retailing giant’s China portfolio and announces a major store rollout 11 October 2019 | Staff Writers & Newswire (Image: CGTN) Just three months after announcing its intention to […]