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While we in the West think of Oreos as round with a sweet white filling, Chinese think of a four-layered rectangular bar filled with vanilla and chocolate cream covered in chocolate.
I was happy to come across today’s China Daily article reporting some immediate health benefits from the May 1 smoking ban that I mentioned in my prior post . Though perhaps not the type that immediately comes to mind, we’ll take what we can get.
Its a WFOE not a WOOF EE!
I am sure that this confusion started with the insistence on woofing like a dog in an attempt to simply the otherwise long moniker when referring to the entity in conversation.
But then again, referring to it as a WaFOO EE just doesn’t sound as good.
Over the more recent past, we have seen the increasing strength of domestic Chinese companies, resulting in greater outward investment and reduction of incentives for foreign investors in China. It will be interesting to watch and work in this rapidly-changing global market.
Remember, for those HR manager/management out there, Chinese law requires a hefty premium of 300% of regular wages on official public holidays (while often few people out and about) so it is important to decide whether the costs, both financially and in terms of employee morale, are worth it.
In one day Chinese msn users managed to spread the word through instant messenger, bulletin boards, and mobile phone sms to add the heartCHINA icon. It was so widespread that upon opening up my msn this morning I initially thought that my program had contracted some sort of sinister Valentine’s vir