October is traditionally the month when the streets of Beijing fill with cabbages. Everywhere truck loads of them are being shipped into the city and distributed to the population who eagerly take them home and squirrel them away. Large stockpiles can be seen on balconies, pavements and against walls covered by makeshift tarpaulin. To the […]
Vodafone & Hutchison – merge or wither
When our local ice-cream parlour closed down recently there was much disappointment within the local community. “We’ll have to buy our ice-creams from McDonald’s next door instead” many people said with a sigh. The parlour’s ice-cream was nice, but not sufficiently compelling to enough people to compete against other local vendors. The business was unprofitable […]