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Insights & Observations

Thoughts on the consumer, culture, marketplace, and the world.

We track the culture and analyze it as events happen. The insights and observations we report on serve as the building blocks of our trend analysis.

In Chinese, we have a saying: You eat first with your eyes, then your nose, then your mouth.

Wendy Leon, Hong Kong-raised chef and caterer

IT Outsourcing: The global outsourcing budget for 2010 is expected to be around $60bn, 80% of which goes to India. Egypt will account for less than $1bn.

Professor Leslie Willcocks to Management Today

Today, China censors everything from the traditional print press to domestic and foreign Internet sites; from cellphone text messages to social networking services; from online chat rooms to blogs, films and e-mail. It even censors online games.

China's Censors Tackle and Trip Over the Internet, New York Times

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