China’s luxury market is expected to grow at 18 percent annually during the next five years and will take more than 20 percent of the global market by 2015, driven by enthusiasm among the younger generation […]
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We all know that China is still a developing country, so you may be amazed if you hear the following facts: China has overtaken the U.S. to be the world’s second-largest luxury goods market […]
Recently the Hurun Research Institute published the 2009 Chinese Nouveau Riche Consumption Standard Report on the new rich in six cities: Beijing, Shanghai, Hangzhou, Shenzhen, Chengdu, and Shenyang; and the winner is: […]
In 2009, driven by the stimulus package for auto consumption by Chinese government, China’s auto sales increased by 18 percent and China became the world’s largest auto producer with the world’s largest auto market […]
Reading about designers can be moving. Seeing their work can be inspiring and, at times, provoke us to action. Hillman Curtis, in his video series, allows us to experience leading designers through sound and motion, uncovering what it is about them that inspires him. Watch Milton Glaser’s video […]
Despite a struggle to meet global demand, Champagne houses are fighting for market share in the growing Chinese mainland market. Two differently-structured maisons with similar approaches to quality and food and wine pairing are trying to convince local bubbly lovers there’s more to the region than Moet or Mumm […]
The legendary graphic designer Milton Glaser dives deep into a new painting inspired by Piero della Francesca. From here, he muses on what makes a convincing poster, by breaking down an idea and making it new […]
Twenty-five years after China opened up to the west the Chinese are paying a price. Rapid social and economic change is transforming China, with enormous implications for its population and economy. Today the country has the fastest-growing obesity rate in the world and more than a fifth of China’s adult population is overweight, related to changing dietary and physical activity patterns. Overweight and poor diets are becoming a greater burden for the poor than for the rich, with subsequent large increases in hypertension, stroke, and adult-onset diabetes. The related economic costs represent 4–8 percent of the economy.
India, China, and Brazil saw bigger growth in the millionaire population last year than anywhere else, and wealth in the Asia-Pacific is expected to grow nearly 8 percent a year to 2012 despite a slowdown in the world at large, a survey showed. The number of millionaires in the Asia-Pacific grew 8.7 percent from a year ago to 2.8 million people and their combined wealth soared 12.5 percent to $9.5 trillion US dollars, excluding the value of their homes and consumables, Merrill Lynch and Capgemini said at a news conference in Singapore recently…
Stopbadware.org has released its latest findings on the prevalence of what it refers to as ‘badware,’ and the upward trend is not surprising. What is a bit startling, however, is how much of it flows from just one nation. Using data from Google’s Safe Browsing initiative, StopBadware.org analyzed over 200,000 websites found to engage in badware behavior. The analysis found that over half of the sites were based on Chinese network blocks, with a small number of blocks accounting for most of the infected sites in that country.
Compared to last year, the total number of sites was much higher, likely due both to increased scanning efforts by Google and to increased use of websites as a vector of malware infection […]