Nankai University reported in a survey to which as many as 94% of the respondents said bribery was widespread in Chinese business.

As many as 77% of the respondents replied that if necessary they, too, would resort to bribery to get the deal they are after.

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All-China Federation of Trade Unions (ACFTU) took on Wal-Mart stores and, get this, ACFTU won.

Wal-Mart hates unions...I do, too, but...

ACFTU, with its membership of 150 million in 1,174 branches took on Wal-Mart and its 1.6 million employees in 16 countries. Wal-Mart has 23,000 employees at 60 Chinese outlets.

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China has agreements with more than 80 countries but will not let Canada have an "Approved Destination Status" agreement.

There are two reasons for this hurt on Canada's tourism industry and both seem to be political.

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OEM is short for original equipment manufacturers. This is when a company makes a product for others to repackage and then sell, most notably electronics.

A company can be quite successful in expanding business but it does not lead to great profits. After all, the company just makes the product.

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Jeffrey Sachs is an advisor to U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan. Sachs thinks that China can make a huge difference in Africa for several reasons.

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Strategy Analytics estimates that the Chinese domestic market for infotainment - car entertainment and navigation systems - will be worth about $4 billion within the next 6-7 years.

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Much of China's mineral reserves lie close to the surface, making it relatively easy and profitable to mine, even with very basic equipment.

The international price of gold has skyrocketed since 2003. Additionally, China is mineral hungry...needed for a balanced diet.

However, illegal mining leads to illegal dumping in rivers and lakes, damaging the environment and destroying land.

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Eye For Travel reports that overseas Internet travel companies wanting to do business in Chinaa do not have a level playing field in China.

Like elsewhere, a segment of the travel market in China uses the Internet to research travel plans.

Even less actually book online with the majority choosing rather to rely on travel agents for booking and payment.

China has more than 111 million Internet users.

There is an estimated 700,000 Chinese websites, says www.allheadlinenews.com

Each year about 50 million spam messages are sent/received.

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Informal snapshots. Social scenes - street scenes of people. River and harbor scenes. Photographs of typhoons and tea picking.

These photographs of China and Hong Kong are all captioned and dated - 1884 - 1912.

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In Donghai County of Jiangsu Province it is popular to have striptease performances at funerals. Well, it was popular until a day ago.

It seems that according to officials in Donghai, local villagers believe that it is good to use strippers to alluer viewers....um, of the body not the strippers, in theory.

The more viewers, of the body, the dead one, the more the dead person is honored.

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China's economy is growing and the influence of this growth is felt throughout the world, and particularly among her neighbors.

Since 9/11 the number of foreign students in the US has decreased dramatically. As a result, they have to/want to go somewhere.

China's economy is growing and the influence of this growth is felt throughout the world, and particularly among her neighbors.

Since 9/11 the number of foreign students in the US has decreased dramatically. As a result, they have to/want to go somewhere.

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Beijing is trying to cereat free trade agreements with countries in the PanAsian region.

The US is trying to strengthen its ties with traditional Chinese adversaries; India, Japan and Vietnam.

Beijing is striking deals.

The US is trying to save the world.

In May of this year, Australia shipped its first installment of $25 billion worth of liquid natural gas to China.

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Georgians are buying Chinese. Not that Georgia...the other one, the country of Georgia.

At the end of last year there were some 550 Chinese citizens registered in Georgia. As of the first half of this year, the figure is nearly 10 times that.

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According to Tyler Marshal, Globe Correspondent, China's trade with southeast Asia grew by 20% last year to more than $130 billion. 

Double digit growth is expected for many years to come.

Spain and Japan was helping the Philippines to build a rail line to connect the northern suburbs of Manila with neighboring Bulacan Province home of several industrial zones. But, Spain and Japan both backed out.

China stepped in to finance the $1.2 billion project.

This kind of developmental project has become a priority for China...building more than good will.

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