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Cascade Healthcare Enters the China Eldercare Market

As was pointed out at ChinaDebate today, Seattle based Cascade Healthcare today announced plans to enter the Chinese eldercare market.  I think a couple of points are worth making about this:  in conversations I’ve had for ...
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Elder Care in China

Rapidly aging demographics always make for interesting business opportunities; and in a country like China where this phenomenon is coupled to an uncertain social safety net for the elderly, business is eager to offer a palatab...
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Crystal Meth (冰毒) becoming China’s drug of choice

Update: Great piece by Newsweek, “North Korea’s Meth Export: An underground economy, border transients, poverty, and desperation fuel a drug scourge in the Chinese hinterlands.” On the eve of June 26th’s Int...
by Damjan Denoble
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Travel Tip: When dining in China, drink warm water.

When I started working at the Beijing pizza restaurant The Kro’s Nest I was confused by the high number of patrons who would order warm water. It was a steady phenomenon. Dry winter day or stifling summer heat, warm water...
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UPS Betting Big on Asia Healthcare Growth, $180 million invested in China

To call the 180 million dollar move 'tentative' would be wrong. This is an effort by UPS to get things right the first time, and a recognition that as supply management to hospitals stands now UPS is going to have to bushwhack...
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