Casey Hall

Vera Wang Nixes China Fees Amid Controversy

wwd.com — Wang's local partner had instituted a fee of 3,000 yuan, or $482 at current exchange, to try on wedding gowns at her new Shanghai bridal flagship.

Changing China Forces Shifts in Luxury Strategies

wwd.com — Major players are cutting back on store openings in far-flung locales in order to focus on improving their offerings within the cities they already serve.

Australian cricket crisis: Homework suspension exposes faultlines

youtube.com — Australian cricket is in crisis following coach Mickey Arthur's decision to ax vice-captain Shane Watson, batsman Usman Khawaja, and bowlers Mitchell Johnson and James Pattinson from the team to face India after they failed to do their homework. Check out the Oddbods!

Finding (and Documenting) Love in China

blogs.wsj.com — SHANGHAI - After a decade shooting news stories in China for National Geographic, CNN and CBS News, American cameraman and director Nathan Mauger decided to find out how people in contemporary China view love and marriage, the topic of his documentary, "The People's Republic of Love."

Gina Rinehart, Australia’s Mining Billionaire : The New Yorker

newyorker.com — Australia, thanks largely to the economic rise of China, has been in the throes of a mining boom. The "lucky country," as it is called, has enormous deposits of the high-grade iron ore required by the steel mills of Asia.

In a Changing China, New Matchmaking Markets

nytimes.com — "This is a good place to hunt," she told me. "I always have good luck here." For Ms. Yang, Joy City is not so much a consumer mecca as an urban Serengeti that she prowls for potential wives for some of China 's richest bachelors.

6 Ways to Prevent a Conflict Between Tokyo and Beijing

thediplomat.com — There are many reasons why China and Japan won't go to war. Now is the time to explore how to actively prevent it. The ongoing crisis over the Senkaku/Diaoyu islands may be bringing Asia to the cusp of war. Trefor Moss recently wrote that a Japan-China war over these disputed islands is very unlikely.

7 Reasons China and Japan Won't Go To War

thediplomat.com — Even as tensions between Beijing and Tokyo grow by the day, there are good reasons to believe outright conflict can be avoided. The sequel seldom improves on the original. Yet Shinzo Abe, Japan's newly re-elected prime minister,has already displayed more conviction during his second spell at the Kantei than in the entire year of his first, unhappy premiership.

The One Conversational Tool That Will Make You Better At Absolutely Everything

fastcompany.com — Ask yourself: If you could interview like Walter Cronkite, would you get more value from your meetings? Would your mentors become more valuable? Would your chance encounters with executives in elevators and thought leaders in conferences yield action items and relationships? The answer is yes.

Suited-Up Online: Why China's Fashionista Websites Aim High (And Low)

forbes.com — As a software engineer David Zhao was happy wearing jeans and a T-shirt, day in, day out. After his fashion website launched in 2010, he had to reboot his wardrobe to sweeten his pitch to international luxury brands whose apparel he wanted to hawk online.