My column in the current Idealog magazine is about movie piracy, an unorthodox view on its remedy and the opportunities that may grow out of piracy for the New Zealand film industry…
Also, courtesy of the Motion Picture Association, some photos taken during their recent Operation Trident raids in Asia.
The launching ceremony of Stop Export Piracy [...]
If Graham Greene was in his early thirties and living in contemporary Shanghai, he’d write like Chinabounder, the “Western scoundrel” who pens the fantastic blog Sex and Shanghai.
As my Chinese friend points out, Chinabounder, is a complete bastard, but only because China has made him one. His sole ambition in Shanghai seems to be bedding [...]
The Chinese have this belief in “Feng Shui”, translated as “wind and water”, where the arrangement of a room, building or even city, is planned in a way to promote harmony with the environment.
Feng Shui is as important to town planning in China as plumbing, as I found on a recent visit to Hong [...]
A couple of pieces the Herald ran about my trip to the Huawei campus in Shenzhen, China have been published. The first is a look at the staggering scale of the campus itself, the other an interview with Huawei executive Rio Zhang, who used to head up the Australian Huawei operation and is now the [...]
I’ve just come back from a fascinating visit to China which I’ll write more about in following posts.
I love visiting China and seeing the remarkable developments underway there. My time spent at the massive Huawei technology headquarters in Shenzhen really brought home the extent of China’s advances in the telecoms equipment market. The old European [...]