The Ministry of Commerce predicts China will become the world's largest luxury goods market by 2014.  China's luxury goods market was worth US$8 billion last year and accounted for 18% of global sales. Marbridge Consulting reported a rumor that Focus Media will acquire online viral marketer 1024 Forum. The online video industry recorded RMB900 m...

Microsoft Windows + BMW = Huatai's new luxury SUV. We'll leave it to China Law Blog and IP Dragon to figure out if there is any way at all this can withstand a legal challenge and sit back and admire the guy or gal who had the chutzpah to come up with (and sell) a campaign promoting their client's new SUV by artfully combining and leveraging r...

China's tax receipts grew 33% in the first quarter of 2008, led by strong gains in imports, securities trading and automobile taxes.REITs in China?  A report suggests that the Chinese government may be looking at enacting legislation to allow for the creation of REITs having spent a great amount of time and effort researching the investment instrume...

National Geographic's May issue has just hit the net and is dedicated to China. Along with the requisite gallery of incredible photographs, there is also a series of articles focusing on social and economic forces that are shaping and affecting China. Although the subject of China’s middle class has been covered many times before, Lesile T. Chang...

Is China to blame for soaring global food prices? Not as much as everyone seems to think says Nicholas Lardy, an economist with the Peterson Institute of International Economics in Washington. Lardy is quoted in the second instalment of a five-part series on world food prices by NPR. And China's rice farmers certainly don't seem to be reaping the ben...

SA editor Judy Well rounds up the global impact of the US subprime crisis on Seeking Alpha. She cites an AFP report in which People’s Bank of China chief Zhou Xiaochuan claims China largely survived the fiasco. “The negative impact of the US subprime crisis on the domestic economy seems so far smaller than originally expected,” he said.Inte...