Month: April 2007

Reading Time: < 1 minute Jeremy Siegel, a Wharton Finance professor and a well known author, took 100 Wharton students to see Buffett as an annual tradition between the school and the Oracle of Omaha. Here is Jeremy’s report. You don’t need to read it all. I think this is the most important part: “Priorities:…But Warren does not stew about

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April 4, 2007

Reading Time: < 1 minute I ordered a book from Dangdang.com, the China’s own Amazon.com. The process was fairly straight forward except the payment. There are lots of online payment options in China these days including the bank card. But I don’t have a special PIN from my bank, so I chose “cash payment on receipt” instead. The book came

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April 4, 2007

Reading Time: < 1 minute ICBC (601398.SS, 1398.HK), Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, announced its 2006 result today, you can read the summary here (Chinese, English). Here is an offical PDF report (in traditional Chinese).

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April 3, 2007

Reading Time: < 1 minute My luggage case was broken, after travelling through so many international airports (STL, ORD, PVG, NRT, SPM, PEK,…), rolling on the Shanghai streets, in two and a half years. It lost one wheel. I thought about buying another one, but on second thought, I decided to ask if it can be repaired. I searched the company using baidu and gsuo,

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April 3, 2007

Reading Time: < 1 minute Private Equity plays a bigger role in Chinese stock market these days. In the US private equity deals more with M&A, merge and acqusitions. In China, because the stock market did so well in last year, a lot private money has been poured into private equity (私募基金). You can feel the temporature of the market by

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April 2, 2007

Reading Time: 2 minutes Went to nearby Hongkong (correct Apr.6: should be Hongqiao) shopping mall on Saturday. I did not realize it’s only one block’s away from my apartment. Here are some photos (to have a larger view, click on the picture). The fountain and front view:  

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April 1, 2007
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