Child labor

March 2, 2010 by whit · 5 Comments 

I read with interest the recent articles (couple of them here and here) about Apple’s announcement that some of their suppliers had used child labor in the past.
What I found most interesting was the “child” part – when I was 15 I would have slugged anyone who called me a child.  During the summer of [...]

Day 37 – Home

February 19, 2010 by whit · Leave a Comment 

My Blackberry Storm 2 from Verizon Wireless has been progressively crapping out on this trip.  It is not a good device, and the longer I have it, the less impressed I am.  In addition to the outrageous charges to receive calls – I practically had to hang up on a few clients to get them [...]

Day 31 – 恭喜发财 – PassageMaker’s Chinese New Year party!

February 15, 2010 by whit · Leave a Comment 

恭喜发财, gōng xǐ fā cái, wishing you a prosperous new year!
More articles and weird stuff:

Toxic Linfen – regardless of Climategate, there is still room for commonsense pollution controls in developing nations
Think You Know China? Eight Things Foreigners Get Wrong
Interesting talk on Vested Outsourcing – not sure if I care for the new buzz word, but [...]

Days 27-30 – Plenty of hard work and plenty of visitors

February 15, 2010 by whit · Leave a Comment 

I’ve already returned to the States a few days ago, but the last couple weeks in China were so hectic, I am filing these posts late.  Days 31-37 to come shortly.
Articles, articles, articles…

Chinese diplomat:  Ties with US deteriorated recently – no, really?
More from Reuters
This is just wrong – Chinese girl, 9, becomes one of world’s [...]

Day 14

January 19, 2010 by whit · Leave a Comment 

Day 14 – Tuesday – Some interesting China article links to kick things off:

Daring blogger tests the limits
Article with some interesting graphs on Chinese military spending
Article on Google
Power rationing in China
Why America and China Will Clash
Avatar banned in China
chinaSMACK – this is an awesome news aggregation site sent to me by Dave Learn – a [...]

Days 6-13 – Shanghai Hooters, Mao’s Revenge, and rotten cell phone companies

January 18, 2010 by whit · Leave a Comment 

Day 6 – Woke to steady rain after a fitful sleep.  The Chinese believe in sleeping on hard beds, as it is supposed to be good for you.  And when I say hard, I mean sheet of plywood hard.  And how having your hips so sore you can barely get out of the bed in [...]

My first time with Singapore Chicken Rice

November 9, 2009 by whit · Leave a Comment 

Yes, more food-borne analogies to ruin your day, dear reader.  Hey, it’s Sunday.
My first 24 hrs in Asia in 1994 changed my life.  I knew instantly I was hooked on Asia’s dynamism, the very excitement of just walking down the street in a part of the world so obviously on its way up, but it [...]

October is Global Sources Trade Show Month!

October 15, 2009 by whit · Leave a Comment 

With the China National Day holiday behind us, the trade show season starts and Mike Bellamy will be in Hong Kong hosting Global Sources‘ China Sourcing Fair’s Buyer Education Conference as well as holding separate seminars on issues of Vendor Coordination and Intellectual Property Protection.  You can find information on Mike’s seminars here and here.
PassageMaker [...]

80% of success is just showing up

October 8, 2009 by whit · Leave a Comment 

A famous quote from Woody Allen, and 100% true.
When Mike Bellamy started PassageMaker, he was working out of his living room.  He had no work force, no infrastructure, just his own willingness to work and work and work until the job was done.  He showed up, plain and simple.
PassageMaker made plenty of mistakes in those [...]

No, it’s a want to issue

October 3, 2009 by whit · Leave a Comment 

Cogitating on the 60th anniversary of the PRC, one cannot fail to consider the current state of the USA, and as a microcosm, our domestic automotive industry.
Yesterday, it was announced the deal with Penske to buy Saturn fell through, and so dies another GM marque.  In this case, I have a personal interest, as I [...]

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