Tag: China
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Green Means Go: Working and Travelling after COVID
We’re finally back on the road for work, but the experience is a touch more complicated in that we now have to download, and register, a slew of new APPs, most of which are primarily in Chinese. What are these APPs? Other than tracking out whereabouts and travel history, each APP needs to give us…
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SSP14 – Film Junkie Owen Johnston
Recorded Friday, July 31, 2020. This week I have another guest and friend from here in Beijing. He’s a self-described rather “unremarkable man” but has done something remarkable during the COVID-19 lockdown: he’s watched a lot of movies. One a day… for the last six months. Today we Zoom together (because we got rained out…
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Tims咖啡 – A Review
Tim Hortons finally made it to China a couple of years after they first announced the joint venture with Tencent Holdings, the same company that owns the popular WeChat communication APP here in China. I should clarify: Tim Hortons, known as Tims咖啡 here in China, has been in the country for about a year since…
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Steve Sirski LIVE – July 25, 2020
Recorded Saturday July 25, 2020. This week’s LIVE episode was all about the state of the retail coffee industry here in China. This is very much from my perspective and based on what I see mainly in Beijing and from the cities I often visit for work purposes. Why am I talking about coffee? This…
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Back to work, and something has changed
Well, work finally re-started in earnest on Monday but it still looks like things will be minimal. Given that a lot of universities have shuttered their campuses for the time being and the uncertainty of being able to study abroad later this year, it doesn’t look good for the work load. Although I am glad…