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he last 3 months have been a nightmare for anyone with a Made in China sticker on their goods, and for China as a whole.
Through this process, one of the things I keep coming back to is “what level of product failure is acceptable?”. For consumers, the first response is none. But is that reasonable?

BEIJING - A Beijing factory recycled used chopsticks and sold up to 100,000 pairs a day without any form of disinfection, a newspaper said yesterday, the latest in a string of food and product safety scares.

The owner, identified only by his surname Wu, said he had sold the recycled chopsticks for 0.04 yuan a pair and made an average of about 1000 yuan ($190) a day.

Another insightful article from Mike Bellamy and Smart China Sourcing. Examines the reasons behind the 2007 quality crisis and how you can prevent your company from making the same mistakes.

Traditional one-dimensional barcodes have been with us for over thirty years, and can now be found on the packaging of almost any product. But while they make checkout lines move faster and have been a great boon to logistics, they’re relatively useless for marketing purposes. The true power of barcode marketing lies in two-dimensional barcodes.

Introducing the Hao Hao Reporter Revenue Sharing Program. You've all helped build this site into something cool and for this, I'd like to reward you.

Initially I wanted to buy everyone a bottle of Er Guo Tou, but reason stepped in and presented me with this idea instead. By simply filling in your Google Adsense ID on your Profile Info page you'll begin having your ads displayed on all full-story pages of links you've submitted and/or will submit.

In the aftermath of the Olympic Games, Benoit Vermander reflects on both short-term and long-term prospects for China. He emphasizes the themes of ecology, freedom of speech and solidarity as the key factors for China to meet its future challenges.

Living in China brings with it a number of occasions where most can do nothing but scratch their heads and say “WTF?” However, largely by the help of the English-language China blogsphere, we’ve started to create a dictionary that can assist in putting words to the weird, definitions to the disarray and captions to the confusing.

The LICtionary, or Life In China Dictionary, contains terms us expats have created to put form to the fiction that is life in China.