Reading Time: 2 minutes OK, enough about the Home Inns (HMIN) and New Oriental (EDU), both of which are well known consumer brands based in Shanghai and Beijing respectively. On Sept 26, a not so well known medical device company based in Shenzhen (by Hongkong), did IPO on NYSE and it was well received by the investors. The company is Mindray Medical International, ticker symbol

Reading Time: < 1 minute It seems all these China stock bloggers are taking vacations 🙂 Click on the date it will bring you to the “events” page of the stock; you can add the event to your “Yahoo Calendar” if you like. Baidu: Nov 1 (Oct 31 evening US time) Ctrip: Nov 8 Netease: Nov 6 Sina: Nov 2 Sohu

Reading Time: < 1 minute Saw this from haiguinet, I thought it’s a good one. The original article is here. ================================================= 深圳美企诚聘 找人真难,急煞老总!!!深圳美企诚聘品质工程师, 制造工程师,ERP / JD Edward 实施顾问 各位大侠有好人选可以推荐给我们吗? 我们公司不差,条件不低.可几个engineering level 的职位找了一年了,不知为何就是找不到人. 看来,制造业已经不是一将难求了,好兵帅克都难找啊!难道所有的人都跟着安校长去做了投行? 全球最大的消毒类一次性医疗仪器和耗材的供应商，现诚邀有潜质之精英加盟本公司： 1、Quality Engineer（品质工程师） 理工科本科以上学历；3年以上医疗器械行业, 或电子,五金, 注塑行业QA工作经验，了解医疗器械行业质量体系标准ISO13485及其它相关法规者优先考虑；良好的团队合作精神与沟通协调能力；英文读写良好，电脑操作熟练。 2、Manufacturing Engineer（制造工程师） 理工科本科以上学历；有三年以上注塑、五金方面的工作经验；曾从事过工装夹具的设计，会熟练使用Auto CAD；有医疗器械行业工作经验，熟悉医疗器械行业者优先考虑；良好的团队合作精神与沟通协调能力；英文良好，电脑操作熟练 3、ERP / JD Edward Implementation Consultant (ERP / JD Edward 实施顾问) 两年以上JDE Enterprise one系统实施经验，熟悉JDE ERP系统设计及数据库，能独立设计实施方案并带领实施完成，英语熟练，能用英语与美国同事沟通，有在JDE公司工作背景者优先考虑。财务、制造模块实施顾问要求有良好的财务、制造流程知识及工作经验 ========================================== It appears

Reading Time: < 1 minute AA is doing a promotion of flight from US to Shanghai (PVG). A ticket from St. Louis to Shanghai is just $688 (before tax); the full ticket will be about $850 including tax. There are some restriction such as (from AA.com): Reservations are required. Tickets must be purchased at least 7 days prior to departure

Reading Time: 2 minutes Next Microsoft. Next Bill Gates. Next Google. Next… We all want to get the hold of “next big thing” before it becomes real, don’t we? Think about this, the stock of Cisco, the networking and communication company, increased 73 times from 1990 to 2000 in 10 years. The Microsoft stock’s performance was similar.  From time to time, when a

Reading Time: < 1 minute Just for fun…  The power you desire lives in your heart. (yesterday) Next week at this time, something good is coming your way! (today)

Reading Time: < 1 minute And today they had a big parade in the downtown St. Louis, from Union Station to the Busch Stadium. I took the newly completed metro link from Brentwood to the Stadium; and it took an hour to get there because there are too many people taking the train. Unlike the metro (subway) in Shanghai, the light railway

Reading Time: < 1 minute Amid all the craziness of Home Inns Ru Jia’s IPO, another well known Chinese company did IPO on NYSE on early Sept, that’s New Oriental Education group. For Chinese students seeking study abroad in the US in 1990s, New Oriental is nothing new. Although I have not attended their classes because at that time their classes are still

Reading Time: 2 minutes Larry Ellison, the CEO of Oracle, surprised the IT/software world again yesterday with the Unbreakable Linux annoucement of “support of Red Hat Linux support and charge less than Red Hat does”. That news crushed the Red Hat stock today, it went down 24%. There are many good technical blogs explains and discusses Oracle’s move. Here

Reading Time: 2 minutes I bought my second pair of shoes on the web. You may wonder how can I buy the shoes without trying out in the store. Yes I did. I found out the price is much cheaper in the online store, $85 vs. $130. I felt pretty bad for the store clerk who showed me the product.