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June 19, 2000  

By Douglas C. McGill

You might well wonder if Roy Warren, the CEO of China Premium Foods, got the idea for his company from watching the based-on-a-true story movie called "Cool Runnings." It's about an Olympic bobsled team from Jamaica.

Warren has big plans, you see, to sell premium caviar in the People's Republic of China. He also intends to import into China container ships filled with sun-dried tomatoes, Bluepoint oysters, smoked salmon, and French pastries.

Do the folks at China Premium know that pieces of cooked chicken in one's daily rice is still a luxury for most people in China? The average monthly income for well-to-do families in China's urban areas is about $250. (more)


Hong Kong Emerges as a Portal to China's Net (6/15) Want to invest in the Internet in mainland China? Sanjeet Devgan has got two words for you: Hong Kong. He summarized a recent 45-minute talk by singling out one idea: "Invest in Hong Kong as a gateway into the greater China market." (more)

50 Cool China Investment Ideas (Totally) (6/7) Obviously, it's not enough to look only at a company's great business ideas before deciding to invest. Yet it's not a bad way to start, especially when trying to size up where the action is in a sector and to determine which companies have a better crack at success than others.(more)

It's A New Day: The VC-30 Grows Up (6/1) If there was ever a day marking the maturing of U.S.-China relations, it was last Wednesday. That’s why I think it’s important the Virtual China 30 start to look more like the Dow Jones Industrial Average than GlobalNet’s Microcap 1000. (more)

I'll Take a Bottle of that PNTR! (5/26) The new mantra big business has spent darned good money to make sure we all learn by heart is: "What's good for Corporate America is good for the entire world." That's the big lesson of the Congressional vote to grant China PNTR. (more)

Sina.com's Delicate Balancing Act (5/23) How come SINA is virtually the only stock on the VC-30 that's gone up in the past month? For all the hype that surrounds the China Internet, the fact is the investing public can only hold one China stock in its mind at a time. (more)

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China's Bid to Join the WTO
The U.S. Presidential Candidates and China


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