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Gordon Brown aide a victim of honeytrap operation by Chinese agents

Top aide to Gordon Brown gets seduced by an attractive Chinese woman at a Shanghai hotel night club, takes her back to his room and wakes up and “TA-DA” his blackberry missing.
The incident occurred in Shanghai on the second day of the tour. That evening, about a dozen members of the Downing Street staff went [...]

Posted 20 July 2008 † Nick § Wank ‡ Comments (2) ° Also tagged: , , , ,

Supply Risk and How to take a taxi from Shanghai to Suzhou

Having cynically followed Mattel and other foreign companies challenges down the supply chain with interest and sighing, wondering how they could let it happen, this Interview between Knowledge@wharton and Marshall W. Meyer, (professor of management at Wharton) caught my interest today. It introduces the concept of Cheng Bao wherein it is common to subcontract out [...]

Posted 17 July 2008 † Nick § Business ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , , , ,