It seems that Chinese Government is not speaking with one voice on this issue: just a few weeks after announcing cuts of taxes for luxury products, a senior researcher from the Ministry of Finance said that “Far from cutting taxes on imported luxury goods, China needs to raise duties to help redistribute wealth” […]
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As western luxury brands rush to tap the Chinese market they are having to unlearn gender stereotypes associated with the products they sell […]
Tech firms like Hewlett-Packard along with energy companies and even hospitals need to design two years into the future, when the economy is going to be turning around, says Mick McManus, CEO of MAYA Design […]
Three decades of sustained economic growth, concentrated along the booming coast, has lured millions from the impoverished Chinese countryside. This great migration – unprecedented in human history – has put 46 Chinese cities over the one million mark since 1992, out of a national total of 102 […]
Prof. Clayton Christensen from the Harvard Business School says America’s inability to attract the best and brightest minds to its shores has him worried about the United States future […]
Spending by Brazilian tourists overseas totaled $ 8.33 billion from January to May/2011, announced the Brazilian Central Bank […]
In the next five years, China will boost its offshore wind power installed capacity to 5 gigawatts and form a complete technology and industrial chain […]
As concepts like mass-customization, personal manufacturing, and the Maker movement go mainstream, a new set of questions is forming about what this manufacturing transformation really means […]
China, already the world’s second-largest luxury goods market, will soon slash import duties on “opulent items” to encourage wealthy local shoppers to buy more pricey cosmetics, watches and liquor […]
The games industry in Brazil is in the crosshairs of the Brazilian government, according to Brazilian Minister of Science and Technology, Aloizio Mercadante […]