The French and the German Chambers of Commerce in Shenzhen are pleased to invite you to a conference on Finance for SME: The Essentials All a SME’s director needs to know about financial management Speaker : Nicolas Rousseau-Chenu FALINWA LTD director, PhD in financial mathematics and business school graduate In this conference, we will introduce [...]
A few weeks ago I mentioned that one way Chinese students (and all students, really) can stand out in the application process is by taking on a job during high school. Wow, I’m telling you what – that statement made a lot of people angry. Especially a few parents. “It’s impossible for Chinese students to [...]
So we’re right smack in the middle of that period of time when students are receiving notification letters, getting “dinged,” and being pushed toward that mysterious waiting list. What is a waiting list, how does it work, & what are my chances of getting off the list and into a dorm room? These are probably [...]
Just the other day, one of my old clients sent me an email from a far away land known as California. In that email, he included a link to an article titled “The Biggest Secret You’ll Ever Learn About Elite College Admissions,” and the following message: Check out this article. You were always totally right. [...]
If you regularly read this column, then chances are you’ll be receiving a nice, big, fat acceptance letter in the mail sometime in the next few weeks. You’ll scream, dance around, and then run and show your parents. You’ll call up your best friend and gloat, then go out to dinner to celebrate. About the [...]
As much as it pains me to say so, Chinese international students have a bad reputation in western universities. Of course, I don’t mean academically – Chinese kids always perform phenomenally well in that regard. I’m talking about on the social side of life. As you find yourself walking around campus next year, all of [...]
Once again, folks, it seems I’ve ruffled a feather or two (thousand) by not being completely clear in my claims about studying abroad. So please, sit back, relax and let me redeem myself. Last week I discussed how Chinese kids studying in Western countries should be “cool.” That was my way of saying that, in [...]
What a great final day of Rugby 7’s we enjoyed watching direct from Hong Kong last Sunday…with more feeds from more places we were proud to be the ONLY bar in Shenzhen showing the 7’s LIVE with English coverage…and there’s more eXclusive coverage this week. March Madness comes to it’s thrilling finale, there’s all the LIVE action from [...]
The AustCham Shanghai Financial Services Committee invites all members from financial services industries to the first roundtable for 2010. This event will launch the groups’ new Chair, Andrew Whitford, Country Head China, Westpac and Vice Chair, Michael Wadley, Head of China Practice, Blake Dawson and feature discussions on the joint white paper with AustCham Beijing, [...]
Congratulations! If you read my column regularly, then you undoubtedly just received your acceptance packets from Harvard, MIT, and Stanford. Nice work, cowboy! For those of you lucky enough to have filthy rich parents, you’ve got an easy, fun road ahead of you. Choose your dorms. Talk to your roommate on the phone. Google pictures [...]
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