Hao Hao ReportThe best China news and blog posts

Some interesting news over at Ken Carroll's blog announcing that Praxis Language, the folks behind Chinesepod.com, have been hired by the Confucius Institute to design their online learning system. Props to Praxis for landing the fat account, and smart thinking from the CI for going to the forerunners in online language learning.

Greg Bissky, Founder of Treasure Mountain Consulting draws upon his 22+ years of Chinese business experience and outlines the 3 different types of Westerners that do business in China. Which category do you fall in? Have a listen to this very candid and informative interview.

Learning Chinese is becoming more and more popular in the Western nations. However we can see that China's visa policy becomes stricter every year. Are these people learning a language of a country they might not be allowed to enter in the future?

A bill in the US Congress takes the blunt-object approach to China's (and other countries') over-zealous net nanny. Rebecca McKinnon has a good summary of the bill, and she makes the case that this is NOT the best approach. Well worth the read.

I've compiled some resources for learning Cantonese. First I made this list for private reasons, but I feel that others might find value in this list. It is by no means complete, feel free to add other good Cantoese learning resources in the comments section

A nice collection of jokes in Chinese to help your learning. Needless to say, it's more interesting than discussing the price of vegetables or learning how to tell someone the number of people in your family.

Following on the World Bank’s 2001 publication, China and the Knowledge Economy: Seizing the 21st Century, this book is another exceptional product I would like to recommend to the Chinese audience. The essence of lifelong learning is to provide opportunities for people to learn throughout their ...

Aaron Newman, Founder and Managing Partner of Urban Core International talks to us about the company's experience in sustainable development projects worldwide and its expansion into China's green sector in 2008.

John, of Sinosplice/Chinesepod/ChinaBlogList fame, has hit the big time. Watch out Da Shan, John's more likable and (according to his limited female readership-and mom) much more handsome.

On his own blog John hits on a point about profiles like this and how Chinese English-language media are always gunning to get us laowai "in a corner" and interview us. I applaud John for getting in a good quote or two that don't just "sell up" China and Chinese culture.