Results tagged “lists”

Via Micah Sittig on Twitter we learned of this spreadsheet that compares tuition fees for international high schools in Shanghai. Fourteen schools are included on the list and they range in annual cost from US$11,319 (Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation Private School), up 30% from last year, to US$30,689 (British International School), up 7% from last year. The only school whose tuition went down this year was the Shanghai American School, down 7% to US$22,092. Time to stock up on the ol' birth control.

In the new Worldwide Centers of Commerce study conducted by MasterCard, Shanghai emerged as the top city driving growth in emerging markets worldwide. Other Chinese cities that made it to top ten in the list were Beijing in 2nd place, Guangzhou (6th) and Shenzhen (10th), with Budapest, Kuala Lumpur, Santiago, Mexico City, Warsaw and Bangkok filling the rest of the slots. Xiamen, Chengdu, Dalian, Tianjin, Nanjing, Hangzhou, Wuhan, Chongqing, Qingdao, Xi'an and Harbin also made it to the list of 65 cities. [h/t to China Law Blog]

One of our favorite Chinese sites seems to have run afoul of the net nanny: vip.bokee.com has been on again off again, but perfectly viewable with a proxy. Using the proxy we saw an article about a list published in a Chengdu newspaper of the top-grossing authors in China, at least based on royalties from the sales of their books. At the top of the list was a Guo Jingming, a young author (born in...