Israelis have the strangest holiday season. Right now, after celebrating the lunar new years and fasting on the holiest of days, Israel is celebrating Sukkot.
The word Sukkot is the plural of the Hebrew word sukkah, meaning booth or hut. During this holiday, Jews eat their meals, entertain guests, relax, and even sleep in a sukkah, [...]
In "How to succeed doing business in China " I discussed the possible western stereotype and misunderstanding about GuanXi and giving the Chinese gifts. If a formal article in an Israeli newspaper about doing business in China advises that you should give gifts on a personal basis and should not take "no" for an answer, [...]
Westerners studying Chinese and Chinese studying English makes sense. An Israeli fascinated with Chinese language and culture shouldn't sound all that strange, right? But how about a Asian interested in Hebrew and Judaism? Wouldn't you find that to be special? Well, I've come to know and hear-about a few of those.
On my first week in [...]
Today's TheMarker financial news in Haaretz has an article about westerners doing business in China titled "The Confucius Business Model". The article summarizes with 12 tips on "How to succeed (or not fail) doing business in China". Here's my translation of the article (from Hebrew):
Take an interpreter to the first meeting. "Never expect to convey [...]
The following video, which hit Digg's China tag recently, is titled "BBC hidden cam finds China selling prisoners' organs", described as :
An undercover investigation by BBC News finds that China has a flourishing trade of organs from executed prisoners. China is becoming the destination of choice for rich foreigners in need of organ transplants. One [...]
This weekend's Haaretz has a long deadly article, spanned over 3 full pages, about a western perspective of Shanghai and Singapore, titled : "A little nuisance at West end - how does Israel look from the East? Traveling to Shanghai and Singapore and coming back depressed". This piece was written by one of Haaretz's finest, [...]
