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A Taiwan-listed, Hong Kong-based electric vehicle startup – Thunder Power – today (Friday) proclaimed an ambitious goal for the future – to make the most desirable EV in China.

“An obvious difference between us and Tesla is we have the key technologies before actually investing in manufacturing,” Wellen Sham, Thunder Power CEO, told wardsauto at a launch event in Shanghai.…

A COACHING conference in China has been told that traditional companies in Asia can do better in communicating with millennial staff members, but managers need to learn how to adapt.

The good practice was outlined by Xie Jian, executive president of China’s top furniture retail chain Red Star Macalline Group (RSM) at a conference held in Shanghai on June 22 by the coaching service provider MindSpan.…

It is rare when the non-wovens sector can identify a government policy that has a real and direct major impact on its sales – but such is certainly the case with China’s new two-child policy – expected to create a major boost in Chinese sales of wipes and disposable nappies. …

IN HONG KONG, the average expatriate pay package for a middle manager has hit a five-year low – having fallen to USD 265,487 in 2016, from USD 270,618 in 2012. And this follows a dramatic increase in the number of workers (including expats) seeking to change jobs this year blaming low pay, industry experts warned quoting two separate surveys.…

It is rare when the non-wovens sector can identify a government policy that has a real and direct major impact on its sales – but such is certainly the case with China’s new two-child policy – expected to create a major boost in Chinese sales of wipes and disposable nappies. …

Donald Trump’s decision to pull the United States out of the 2015 Paris Climate Treaty will not halt moves to cut fossil fuels or reduce decarbonisation requirements on the non-energy minerals sector and other industries, say experts.

Trump called for a new “fair” deal that would not disadvantage US businesses and workers and claimed that China and India had “no meaningful obligations” placed on them by the agreement.…

How much dirty money can get into global property markets as a result of crooked or incompetent lawyers? While legal professions representative bodies say the problem is not widespread and lawyers take their conveyancing responsibilities seriously, the court record suggests there are rotten apples.…

A sudden shortage of leather in India prompted by government religious policies on reducing cattle-related trades is forcing major fashion brands to look for alternative sourcing destinations. Even Indian fashion goods exporters are having to buy costly imports of raw leather to service existing orders.…

THE EUROPEAN Commission has warned that the Chinese government is planning to introduce what it calls “unjustifiable food certification requirements” for imports into China. This alert comes in a new annual report from the EU executive on international trade and investment barriers, looking at developments last year (2016) and upcoming changes.…

The European Union (EU) and China have struck a geographical indications deal involving both parties preventing the names of 100 traditional food and drink items from either jurisdiction being used by manufacturers not based in their historic production regions or following standardised production techniques.…