My Herald story today about a clever little company called Optima, which made good use of a $500,000 Foundation of Research Science and Technology grant and its place in the Icehouse incubator to achieve exporting success.
Also, in the Dominion Post, news that Econet has officially signed its $100 million plus deal with Huawei for construction [...]
Written on March 27, 2007 | Posted in
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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 [...]
Written on March 24, 2007 | Posted in
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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 [...]
Written on March 18, 2007 | Posted in
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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 [...]
Written on March 11, 2007 | Posted in
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