Celts in China

Two utterly different lands, China and Ireland, trying to understand each other - and do busi ness - through cultural diplomacy.     

China＇s Wellness Revolution

SEVERAL years after its publication, the Wellness Revolution remains a cult best-selling book. Its writer, businessman and motivational speaker Paul Zane Pilzer, advised investors and ama-teur stock market players that “wellness“ would be the next tril-     

By Plane, Train... Or Hel icopter

China's increasingly sophisticated heavy transport industries are finding markets abroad.     

Hot Cup,Hot Trend

Coffee has become a definite sign of sophistication among China's middle classes. Only a small percentage of Chinese people have turned from tea to coffee, but millions are switching tastes to show they have made it. Coffee chains are expanding fast across China, and global coffee makers are competing to profit from the trend.     

No Fools with Horses

HORSES have been around China for a long time. The Mongols conquered Chinaon horseback and ruled as the Yuan Dynasty for a century. The terracotta warriors in Xi'an, cavalrymen by their steeds, date from the pre-millennial Qin Dynasty. Tang Dynasty ceramics depict horses and camels, and many gen-     

Golf＇s Greener Pastures

BILLBOARDS at the entrance to the Guomao subway station in Beijing‘s business district read “Golf Wonderland for Germany Life(sic),”handily synopsizing a preferred vision of sophistication as seen by the urbanites who staff the local offices.Live amid the pine trees of a local Black Forest,minutes from a golf course and you‘ve made it, the thinking goes,Fifteen minutes walk south leads to the site of this real estate idyll.