Day: March 18, 2010

Paradise on Earth

Shanghai may be the place to be in 2010 as World Expo fast approaches, but as Quan Zhenyuan writes, there is a lot more to the surrounding areas and cities than meets the eye. 

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Profiling Alumni Success

Whether you are a recent graduate or an alumnus who departed Australian shores many years ago, the Australia China Alumni Association is your gateway to rekindle old friendships, build your professional network or simply broaden your social sphere.

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AustCham Shanghai Chairman

Expo is set to sizzle this summer as a reborn Shanghai rises from the scaffolding and the buzz being all about that “Aussie Tin Shed”, writes Stephen White, AustCham Shanghai Chair.

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View from the ground: Yearn to Learn

Starting a charity in China has its challenges but for the founders of Yearn to Learn – providing classes for orphans with disabilities, the rewards are speaking for themselves writes René Cronan-Dixon.

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People Watch – March April 2010

PATRICK STRINGER has been appointed the new Victorian Commissioner to Greater China (including Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan) and is based in Shanghai. Patrick has formerly worked for Austrade as a Senior Trade Commissioner to Vietnam and has some 25 years experience in senior management and marketing related roles in the private sector. Patrick replaces Charles Brent who was based in Shanghai for three years and recently returned to Australia.

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Company Profile: George P. Johnson

Paul Kenny is no stranger to expos having first worked at Brisbane’s World Expo in 1988 on the NSW pavilion and then later at the Australian pavilions in Hanover in 2000 and Aichi in 2005 as the Managing Director of Jack Morton Worldwide. He spoke to Sophie Loras about his expo experience.

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Publisher’s Letter: China’s two worlds

The results of last year’s Global Warming Summit in Copenhagen created a media frenzy in which the western press blamed China for aligning itself with the world’s third world countries and then requesting equal recognition and compensation in respect to China’s reduction of its level of green house gas emissions, writes Carl Jetter.

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