Chan Wan was as ever the anthropologist even though there seemed nothing remotely tribal about our surroundings in an everyday Starbucks.
It was an early morning in December last year and a bronzed middle-aged Chinese man, dressed in a plain suit and worn, dusty shoes, was walking across the bustling heart of the US financial district, Wall Street.
A software engineer in Beijing has revealed a breakthrough in technology that could have a profound effect on museums globally and which puts Beijing firmly on the map of cutting edge development.
Cultural surfing boom
Toyota Motor Corp is focused on restoring customer confidence as the world's biggest automaker revamps quality control efforts following its worst recall crisis, President Akio Toyoda said.
Chongqing plans to build some 30 million square meters of public housing for 1.5 million city dwellers over the next three years, in order to tackle an acute housing shortage and stabilize rising property prices, said Huang Qifan, the city's mayor.
Jiang Huaiyu, head of the flight standard division of China's civil aviation authority, has been appointed to take the place of a former regional chief who committed suicide late last month, caijing.com.cn reported.
Zhang Furong, vice president of Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC), will leave the bank and serve at another State-owned bank, China Business News reported, citing a person with knowledge of the matter.
Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman said the US should have a "kitchen-sink strategy" that uses all fiscal and monetary policies possible to prevent the economy from sliding back into a recession.
Su Ning, a former vice central bank governor, will become the chairman of China UnionPay, the nation's sole bank card payments processor, Chinese Internet portal Sina.com reported on Wednesday.
Chinese online and mobile game maker KongZhong Corp said Tuesday that Chief Financial Officer Jay Kenneth Chang will replace co-founder Nick Yang on its board of directors.
Former president of Microsoft China Tang Jun on Tuesday sought to dispel a rumor that he faked his academic credentials in the United States after remaining silent over the matter for the past five days.
When Yang Liu, now the most successful female fund manager in China, said in 2001 that China will become an important market for institutional investors, few people took her words seriously.