From the monthly archives: October 2008

How to Beat the Recession in China

By On October 30, 2008 · Leave a Comment

Home sales are down

Office rents are falling

Exports have stalled

Foreign direct investment has dropped off a cliff

Not since SARS has it been so easy to get a table at your favorite restaurant

Yup, business is headed into a recession in China, and if you came here to make money (as opposed [...]

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Still a Few Bugs in the System

By On October 29, 2008 · Leave a Comment

Where’s my damn RightSite?! That’s what I keep asking myself (and my development team) after working on this project for the last seven months and going through what seems like 1,258 schedule changes. Well, from what the development team in India tells me WE ARE ALMOST THERE!  Somehow this is vaguely reminiscent of [...]

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Web Development in an International World

By On October 22, 2008 · 3 Comments

For those of you who have been following this blog, you know that we are nearly done with RightSite.Asia, the region’s first bilingual website for industrial property.   After months of relentless site building, we are getting ready to wrap things up.

Except for one small problem.

This business of making things bilingual is [...]

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Lost in Translation

By On October 13, 2008 · 1 Comment

Never fear faithful readers!  RightSite is on it’s way to answer all your most personal questions about manufacturing and logistics facilities in Asia — you just have to wait a couple more weeks.

We have been busy the last few weeks fixing a few last technical glitches on the project and plowing through the [...]

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