Merle Hinrichs, CEO of Global Sources, recently went on CNBC to defend the quality of products made in China. Somehow, I think this pronouncement came a bit late. The company failed to capitalise on the situation early and make an ethical (and potentially beneficial) stand on the issue of sourcing from China by emphasising its… Read More »
I was trying to do some research this morning and I realised that Wikipedia is also censored by the Chinese authorities. I wonder if there’s any way to circumvent this. And I thought now that I’m in Hong Kong, my surfing troubles would be a thing of the past. But no! The supposedly “broadband” Internet… Read More »
I am in Shenzhen at the moment and I don’t seem to have access to any blog hosted by blogspot, which is a drag because a few of the blogs that I read regularly, not to mention my own, are hosted there. The weird thing is, although I can post a new entry to my… Read More »
Do we have a Fake Steve Jobs in our midst? Apparently, someone has been blogging about Global Sources at WordPress since October 2006. Judging by the information presented on the blog, I suspect this could be the work of an insider. Perhaps my colleagues in editorial can do some investigative journalism. (But make sure you… Read More »
For my own part, I have never had a thought which I could not set down in words with even more distinctness than that with which I conceived it. There is, however, a class of fancies of exquisite delicacy which are not thoughts and to which as yet I have found it absolutely impossible to… Read More »
The following is a letter to the editor by Lawrence A. Bullis, originally published in the Arizona Republic: Every day, some new do-gooder is trying to save us from ourselves. We have so many laws and safety commissions to ensure our safety that it seems nearly impossible to have an accident. The problem is that… Read More »