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East Asia


The Dos and Don’ts of Foreign Business Etiquette

Knowledge of cross-cultural etiquette is a critical element in all international business negotiations. Here are 11 helpful tips to learn before traveling anywhere outside the United States on business.

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Clothing Start-ups Seek Solutions as Cotton Prices Climb

Soaring cotton prices continue to present retailers with tough decisions: cut margins and risk profitability, or raise prices and risk sales?

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Introducing Inc.com's Local Sections

Inc.com is launching new pages devoted to New York City small business news, Atlanta small business news, Chicago small business news, San Francisco small business news, Los Angeles small business news, Seattle small business news, and Washington, D.C. small business news.

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How to Survive a Beijing Business Trip

From the minute you land in Beijing, nothing is business as usual.

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6 Tips for Manufacturing in China

Taylor Llewellyn’s needlepoint belt and accessories line, Tucker Blair, is quintessentially American, but made in China. Here are his tips for working with a Chinese contract manufacturer.

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Recent Articles about East Asia

From China, With Love

More American entrepreneurs are turning to investors far from home. Plus, a beer brewer's epiphany and the rest of the day's news.  Read more

Google Intervenes in Japan

Each day, Inc.'s reporters scour the Web for the most important and interesting news to entrepreneurs. Here's what we found today. ...  Read more

Quake-damaged Cables Impacting Communications

Some of the undersea cables off the coast of Japan shared by the world's telecomm companies have suffered significant damage from the 8.9 earthquake ...  Read more

China Home to Most Hacked Computers, Says Report

As China shuts down the country's largest hackers' training ground, a report highlights more problems.  Read more

Report Says Google Attack Traced to Two Chinese Schools

Sleepless nights ahead for CEOs: The same hackers also have launched similar assaults on other companies -- and a new (and unrelated) attack has hit some 2,5...  Read more

Google Redirects Chinese Traffic

Search giant Google has begun redirecting traffic away from Google.cn, its main Chinese site, and to Google.com.hk, this afternoon.  Read more

Go Daddy, Network Solutions Pull Back From China

In the wake of Google's decision to stop censoring online content in China, two domain name registrars announce their retreat.  Read more

China: Malware Capital Of The World

What a claim to fame for Shaoxing, China. It holds the world record for most malware attacks coming out of the country with the national title in the same...  Read more

Twitter Shows Off Revenue Plans

Twitter unveils advertising platform. That long-awaited Twitter revenue model that we've been telling you about? It's finally here. Co-founder Biz ...  Read more

In China, the Cost of Doing Business Rises

Recent wage hikes combined with rising prices mean China isn't as cheap an option as it once was.  Read more

Smart Transport Tech in Asia

South Korea and Japan are the world leaders in intelligent t...  Read more

Forget Outsourcing, Try Rural Sourcing

Google makes a deal China, but at what cost? After months of tension, Google ...  Read more

How to Find a Contract Manufacturer in China

One young entrepreneur explains what he learned by quitting his job and hopping on a one-way flight to China.  Read more

Young Entrepreneurs, Cool Products

The entrepreneurs featured on Inc.com's 30 Under 30 list this year have brought to market a variety of products including bespoke suits, anti-gravity treadmi...  View slideshow

Doing Business in China

Michael Lee is on the verge of becoming the first American entrepreneur to build big in the world’s most populous country.  Read more

10 Steps to Starting a Business in China

China's fast-growing consumer class is giving business owners new reasons to set up shop abroad. Here's how to start and grow your business.  Read more

Is the Recession Draining the U.S. of its Talent?

In a poor job market, American graduates are seeking jobs on foreign soil.  Read more

Entrepreneurs Save the World, Box Water, and China Struggles

The Economist finally discovers the entrepreneurial society. Dr. Jeff Cornwall's blog points to Read more

U.S. and China Feud; Best Analytics Tools

Trade relations between the US and China sour. After nearly two years of negotiations, China has rejected claims made by the United States and Euro...  Read more

China's 3rd Manned Spaceflight

When I was a kid I watched men land on the moon. Like every kid I wanted to be an astronaut. Now China is getting in on the act. After a Read more

Internet Addiction in Children

A recent research study done in Taiwan has raised questions about internet ad...  Read more

The App Market Grows

A big weekend for the iPad. Roughly 300,000 people bought iPads on Saturday, the day Apple put its new gadget on sale. That's more than the first g...  Read more

Starting Up While an Employee

The "real" story on Facebook's founding . On Friday, Silicon Alley Insider published the Read more

An Olympic Shutdown?

Beijing's Olympic dreams may be a nightmare for U.S. companies  Read more

Is Outsourcing to China Over?

A growing number of American manufacturers seem to be profiting from an anti-outsourcing backlash.  Read more

The China Train May Have Already Left the Station

If you have thought that taking advantage of China's low costs might be the answer to all your problems -- better look again. The game is getting much mor...  Read more

The China Train May Have Already Left the Station, Part Two

I flew from Sydney to Chicago where I had dinner with the CEO of a company that manufactures parts for electric motors. What keeps him up at night, I ask...  Read more

The Earthquake Entrepreneur

The disaster in Japan has put the spotlight on businesses that provide earthquake detection technology, plus the rest of the day's news.  Read more

Going Global, Part 12: Trade Wars Abrewin'?

After weeks of hinting, the White House took its intellectual property beef with China to the World Trade Organization. U.S. Trade Representative Susan C....  Read more

Going Global, Part 19: Is China's GDP a Bad Moon Rising?

China announced today that its first quarter GDP grew 11.1 percent year-over-year, sparking concerns of overheating for the country's as yet immature fina...  Read more

Going Global, Part 21: VCs Head to China

That giant sucking sound you hear is $360 million in U.S. venture capital heading to China. Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, the storied Silicon Valley v...  Read more

Our Far Flung Companies

For the first year ever we mapped out where Inc. 500 companies do business globally. Sure there are firms outsourcing to India and China, but they're als...  Read more

How to Spot a Lying CEO

Each day, Inc.'s reporters scour the Web for the most important and interesting news to entrepreneurs. Here's what we found today: Fib...  Read more

How to Use QR Codes to Market Your Business

Smart companies are using the scan-codes to break the wall of interaction with customers. Keep these tips in mind when trying it for yourself.  Read more

The Timelessness of Deming

If ever you start thinking you've got hurdles to overcome, remember Japan. At the end of WWII, companies there were facing badly damaged infrastructure, l...  Read more

Lessons from China

I'm just back from China, a provocative place to watch the reports on the demonstrations up and down France. The streets were filled with young and old, ...  Read more

7 Tips for Foreign Business Travel

Maximize your time spent overseas. Proper preparation before your departure will not only make your business trip a safe one but more productive.  Read more

China Takes IT Export Lead

Here's yet another sign of China's exploding economic might: China now exports more information technology goods than the United States. Las...  Read more

Best Practices for Selling Jello Shots?

Each day, Inc.'s reporters scour the Web for the most important and interesting news to entrepreneurs. Here's what we found today: Ge...  Read more

Competing with China

A business owner recently asked Fresh Inc. what it would take his 42-employee business to effectively compete with China. Unfortunately, it seems this mig...  Read more