China Esquire

Saw an email about an event that I thought might interest everyone.  Called “Powerful Strategies Of Winning Business In Global Economy”, here is their description of the program:

Every good CEO is a good sales person.  Drawing insights from their own experience and success, our prominent panel from leading global outsourcing companies will share the key ingredients in a successful sales pitch in the hi-tech industry. They will discuss sales strategies and demystify the magic potion in winning important business in US, China, and other parts of the world. They will also address how to manage growth of top-line and bottom-line for a company in this competitive market.

More details after the jump.

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Last month, I was invited to a lunch seminar (invitation only) hosted by Give2Asia where they discussed the challenges facing Chinese education, and more specifically, the problem of funding Chinese higher education.  Scott Sugiara with Give2Asia gave us some of the statistics: since 2001, their organization has given over $100 million to Asia, and about 35% of that has been in the forms of grants/scholarships to individuals.  (focused mostly on Jiaotong Daxue and other Shanghai university students)  One thing he also noted was that education is not cheaper at the top universities because there are often scholarships for those students.  Ironically, its the students who go to regional and vocational schools who have a harder time affording their higher education.

One solution, after the jump.

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Looks like yet another firm wants a piece of the pie in China: Saul Ewing. But instead of going through the process of applying for a license to open up a law office in China, they took another route: an alliance/partnership with a local office. So instead of taking on the overhead of opening up another office (which could be a boon, but also a huge profit loss), incurring real estate leases and other administrative costs, they handpicked Concord & Partners to be a regional partner. The article after the jump.

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Sorry to the last minute update, but I just saw this post over at the Asian Philanthropy Forum. Give2Asia and Social Venture Group are hosting a conference call on Wednesday August 12, 2009 at 8:30 a.m. PST to discuss philanthropic opportunities and challenges in China. Sounds interesting–more details after the jump!

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I was speaking to a friend a few months back, and he wants to shift into human rights law in China. I looked at him with a certain tinge of sadness in my eyes, and could only ask him one question, “You do know what you’re getting into right? It’s a hard life. It’s hard… and you may be asking for persecution, trouble, and a lot of pain and suffering from your own government.” There was nothing else I could say. And when he responded in the affirmative resolutely, I could only stare a little and say, “Okay.” And it’s ironic that since then, I feel like I’ve only seen a slew of articles talking about the troubles of human rights attorneys.

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