Watery Sunshine

Although India is considered to be as economically promising as China, and its population is predicted to surpass China's in coming yea...

Chesapeake Bay Candle is a major player in the multibillion dollar scented candle industry.  In spite of its name, all its candles are made...

The plant on the left is urukum, which is used to make a pigment dye for Uruku lipstick, made by Aveda on the right.  Aveda, a unit of E...

Like many multinational companies, GE has struggled with India.  High levels of bureaucracy, corruption, and differing consumer needs and t...

Although India is home to many internet-based or IT companies, there's surprisingly little e-commerce happening within the country.  Th...

In rapidly growing countries such as Brazil, China and India, tapping expatriates is becoming obsolete. Instead, global businesses are loo...

The artist who designed the Bird's Nest stadium for the 2008 Olympics (and then boycotted the opening ceremony), and more recently i...

Here's a wonderful essay from Scott Adams, Dilbert's creator, on why entrepreneurship education is so important, and why busines...

Taken at 7 AM this morning, University of Dayton RecPlex.

It will be "authentically Disney but uniquely Chinese." That is how company officials are describing Shanghai Disneyland, which b...

As we head for a possible government shutdown, I wondered why the budget deficit was so high and why the government is in so much debt. The...

Just as Ford is finishing up its sale of Jaguar and Land Rover to the Indian firm Tata, the brands are experiencing a renaissance in sales....

In spite of the fact that there are thousands of new college graduates in India, very few of them are landing employment. The reason is ...

  On Monday, Groupon launched its operations in China, the world's largest Internet market.  In doing so, the company faces daunting ch...

In 2006, Hong Kong changed its marriage law to permit for weddings to be held outside places of worship or City Hall.  Since then, weddings...

Although India's economy is growing at a healthy 9 percent per year, and a growing middle class is consuming goods at historic levels, ...

Russia remains the only major world economy that is not a member of the World Trade Organization (WTO).  In large part, this is because Russ...

The U.S. dollar is struggling.  Against all major world currencies, a dollar buys less currency today than it used to.  Within the U.S., th...

Fort Payne, Alabama, calls itself the "sock capital of the world."  Ten years later, about one in eight pairs of socks came from ...

It was the deal that almost slipped under the radar screen -- in May, Chinese telecom equipment maker Huawei purchased U.S. startup 3Leaf S...

Groupon isn't just a hit in the U.S. -- it's rapidly expanding overseas as well, with 50 million subscribers in 35 countries.   Par...

It's official -- China is now the world's second largest economy, displacing Japan from a position it's held since 1967. At t...

While most are familiar with the bruising battle between Airbus and Boeing for market share as the only two competitors left in the large p...

At Nissan, a move in the value of the dollar versus the yen by one yen in either direction is worth around 18 billion yen, or $219 million,...

The World Bank predicts that the number of middle-class Africans, whose income exceeds their basic needs, will rise to 43 million by 2030 f...

When it comes to joint ventures, GE is notoriously shy, prefering to use its own substantial assets to enter a market in order to protect i...

Volvo is a Swedish car company with a Chinese shareholder and a German CEO.  The company already builds a small number of cars in China fo...

  Toyota has a problem. The automaker, a leader in hybrid cars, is heavily reliant on neodymium (above, being mined), a rare earth metal ...

India remains a huge untapped market for coffee giant Starbucks.  The company plans to grow to 1500 outlets in China in the next five years...

Japan's top restaurant by number of outlets, McDonald's, rolled out its Big America 2 campaign last week, featuring the Texas burge...

Sandwiched between Vietnam and Thailand, Laos is one of the world's poorest countries.  The communist government has been trying to lib...

Although Vietnam's GDP is growing at 7% annually, double digit price increases, a downgrade on the country's sovereign debt, and an...

Under NAFTA, the U.S. was supposed to allow Mexican trucks to operate on U.S. highways as long as they meet U.S. regulations.  Currently, go...

Last year the Obama administration imposed tariffs of up to 35% on tires from China, arguing that the surge in imports had threatened domes...

While Korean automakers are selling hundreds of thousands of cars in the U.S., U.S. automakers aren't experiencing nearly the same lev...

When economies run into trouble and start slowing down, governments often turn to devaluing their currencies to make exports cheaper, and t...

War-torn Sri Lanka has 10,000 certified accountants, with another 30,000 in training.  Outsourced accounting offices in Sri Lanka are doing...

Fiji Water, makers of high-end bottled water from the Pacific island of Fiji, is a privately held company owned by a billionaire couple fro...

Wal-Mart, the world's largest retailer, sees more opportunity in emerging markets than in Europe, according to the company's Interna...

In late October this year, a college student named Chen Xiaofeng was inline skating with a friend on the campus of China's Hebei Univer...

Japan maintains a 777% tariff on imported rice, as well 252% on wheat, 360% on butter, 320% on sugar, and 38.5% on beef.  As a result, Japa...

Chinese Build 15-Story Hotel In Just Six Days, Rest On Seventh

With sales in the U.S. sluggish, Gap Inc. is setting its sights on China's fast-growing consumer market, opening a flagship store in Sh...

At the G20 summit meeting in Seoul, President Obama failed to reach an agreement with South Korea over the last two sticking points in a pr...

Get ready to pay a lot more for T-shirts and jeans.  Flooding in Pakistan and bad weather in India and China means that there is a worldwid...

The Indian rupee has climbed 9% against the dollar in the last 16 months.  That has taken a toll on a key Indian export -- textiles -- beca...

Twenty years ago, there were hardly any dogs in Beijing. In the communist era, dogs were likely to be herders, guards, or meals, rather t...