Jobs: South China Morning Post Editorial Jobs

Two jobs going at Hong Kong’s South China Morning Post:

Magazines Editor (Ref: CCL-EDT-ME)

The South China Morning Post is looking for a Magazines Editor with a very deep store of knowledge across a range of subjects. The successful candidate need to be well versed in many different aspects of culture including the arts, fashion and music.

The Magazine Editor is responsible for all aspects of the production of Post Magazine and Style magazine, including:
- Commissioning stories for both magazines or supervising the work of those who have commissioning authority for the Lifestyle sections of Post magazine;
- Supervising design concepts for all aspects of both magazines;
- Forward planning of lineup lists for Style and Post magazine;
- Managing budgets for Style and Post, containing costs within agreed limits;
- Supervising Post and Style magazine staff;
- Executing concepts for Fashion photo shoots in Style and Post magazine;
- Initiating and maintaining good relationships with existing and potential advertising partners of the magazines;
- Attending, as required, meetings with existing and potential advertising partners of the magazines;
- Maintaining and developing a strong group of freelance contributors who can offer or be commissioned to write pieces for both magazines;
- Editing/supervising the editing of all copy that appears in both magazines, ensuring that all printed copy is accurate, error free and well written.

Requirements:
- Experience in editing a magazine or substantial section of a major newspaper
- Very strong writing skills
- The candidate should have strong and proven record managing staff

Interested parties please send curriculum vitae with full career details, salary history, availability and expected salary to the Human Resources Division, Morning Post Centre, 22 Dai Fat Street, Tai Po Industrial Estate, New Territories, Hong Kong or by email to career@scmp.com. Please mark ‘Private & Confidential’ and quote reference.

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Commissioning Editor, Custom Publishing (Ref: CCL-AMS-CECP)

We are looking for an experienced editor to write, commission and edit articles for our special reports and custom publishing products. Candidates should have a strong command of both spoken and written English and Chinese and should have at least five years’ experience in an editing or senior writing position with a reputable newspaper or magazine. He or she should be able to generate story ideas and lead publishing projects independently from start to finish.

Interested parties please send curriculum vitae with full career details, salary history, availability and expected salary to the Human Resources Division, Morning Post Centre, 22 Dai Fat Street, Tai Po Industrial Estate, New Territories, Hong Kong or by email to career@scmp.com. Please mark ‘Private & Confidential’ and quote reference.

Personal data provided by job applicants will be used strictly in accordance with our Personal Information Collection Settlement, a copy of which will be provided upon request sent to us at the address indicated above. You may consider your application unsuccessful if you do not hear from us within 4 weeks.

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Job: Editor of Australian Wine Publication

Nice work if you can get it!

Winetitles is the leading publisher to the wine industry and is seeking an experienced and dedicated journalist for Australian and New Zealand Grapegrower and Winemaker, the biggest-selling industry publication to the grape and wine industry in Australasia.

(Ad via Tony Paul, from Seek)

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China: Rules for Social Media Marketing

WARNING: This posting will likely interest only people working within Social Media in China.

The China International Public Relations Association produced a set of rules and recommendations that has been trickling through China’s media and Internet in various reports. We decided to do a full translation of the guidelines (Below).

Some highlights relating to what they call “Digital PR”:

• Digital PR is the fastest growing business model within the PR industry
• Accounted for 6.3% of PR in China, with a total turnover of 880 million RMB in 2008.
• Companies “should not provide any form of attack or defamation towards a competitor” 

The point about attacking competitors is an interesting one and an ongoing problem in China, as this article in the China Daily points out:

An underground business, that charges companies high fees to delete negative news or posts against them, has been flourishing in the run-up to World Consumer Rights Day today, normally regarded as the most important day to highlight a company’s good reputation.

An operator surnamed Wu with Han De Kai Si Crisis Dealing Experts Company, told METRO on Sunday they normally charge 600 to 800 yuan per post deleted. He revealed there were usually two ways to deal with such business crises, including paying insiders within websites to delete online information and hiring people to release positive posts with the same titles as negative posts.

The association itself is run by a former China ambassador to the US and has the stated objective “to let the world know China and to let China orient itself to the world”

Anyone have thoughts/comments on these recommendations?

Guidelines for the Online PR business in China
Preface
Following the rise and expansion of the Internet and of social media like forums and blogs, traditional media and communication patterns have undergone a profound transformation. At the same time, marketing and public relation disciplines have also undergone a radical transformation. Digital PR has already become an extension of traditional PR that cannot be ignored, and it is the fastest growing business model within the PR industry. As shown in a survey of the CIPRA, in 2008 the PR market in China has exceeded 14 billion RMB, with a growing rate of 29.6%. Digital PR accounts for 6.3% of this market, with a total turnover of 880 million RMB.

The use of online news, forum conversations, online activities, word-of-mouth marketing, group marketing, sentiment marketing and online crisis management has become the main services provided in the PR market, and fast consumption, automobile, IT, Internet and communication companies have become the main clients of PR. Following the normalization and the expansion of e-commerce and online sales, companies have raised higher and higher voices calling for the standardization and regulation of online public relations. At the same time, given the continuous innovation of means of communication and of communication technologies, the concept of online public relation is also in continuous evolution.
The expansion of the market calls for regulation, and in the case of online public relation, this is even more important. We believe we should take example from the Regulations for public relation services, in order to control and regulate this market, continuously raise the standards of technology and the level of qualification of the people working in the field, in order to ensure the sustainability and the growth of the market. For this reason, as a result of thorough research and thought from the CIPRA, we have developed this document that attests the standards of services in online public relations.
The specific content is as follows:

Chapter 1 Definition of digital public relations
1.1 Digital public relations aims at making use of the practice of traditional public relations to communicate, build relations and manage brands on online platforms like social media and online media. Compared with traditional public relations, online PR has the advantages of being faster, more interactive, more precise, more long-term and having a bigger scope.
1.2 Differently from other online marketing techniques, online PR does not only have the objective of increasing sales, or influencing the purchasing behavior of single individuals or groups. Digital PR aims at delivering strategic and long-term messages to the online public, and therefore serves the creation and the management of the brand. For the client, the practical value of digital PR is: increase the image of a brand; affect the opinion of consumers towards the brand and their purchasing behavior; protect the companys reputation and image.
1.3 Digital PR agencies and any company providing online PR service should satisfy their clients online PR needs. The ten main services provided in online PR are: customer service; online news; online activities; brand promotion; interactive marketing; public opinion monitoring; crisis management; online media management; specialized training.
1.4 Online PR services can be divided in two main groups: concept products and channel products. Concept products are consultancy and announcement products like online news, online customer services; experience/activity products like online activities, word-of-mouth marketing, community marketing; monitoring/alert products like public opinion monitoring, crisis management, criticism protection; and protection/optimization products like website optimization, SEO, traffic optimization. Channel products are news distribution, forum and blog seeding, SNS seeding, IM seeding, video distribution.

Chapter 2 Technology utilization and media attitude of digital PR agencies
2.1 Online PR agencies mainly utilize Internet technologies for their work. Internet media tools have qualities that traditional media do not have such as immediateness, personal approach, interactivity, openness. They can be one-to-many, many-to-many or many-to-one. Online media have overturned the elitism of traditional media, slightly moving the right to express opinions from the elites to the grassroots.
2.2 According to the main means of communication of online public relations, it is possible to divide the online PR media in five kinds: general portal websites, vertical portal websites, forums, blogs, streaming websites. The most used channels of communication are news, forum threads, blog posts, streaming videos.
2.3 The technology support systems of online PR can be divided into five main platforms according to the different functions: news publishing platforms, sentiment monitoring platforms, media resource platforms, media communication platforms and control platforms.

Chapter 3 The workflow of digital PR agencies
3.1 Digital public relations are a consultancy service, and the effectiveness of this service is attested through regulated and organized procedures, and developed through stages such as project discussion, project research, project planning, project confirmation, project execution and project evaluation.
3.2 The core aim of digital PR is to solve the online reputation issues of a client, and digital PR agencies should carry out research on the online brand of the client, evaluation of the online PR strategies already carried out by the client, analysis of the competition, definition of the challenges faced by the client, and the opportunities ahead, and finally define an online strategy for the client.
3.3 Because it makes use of advanced technologies, the effectiveness of online PR is more easily assessable. Nowadays, there are three main assessment systems: qualitative assessment of the project (online traffic changes, attention from traditional media, level of satisfaction of users, level of reputation of the brand); quantitative assessment of the project (number of posts, number of views, number of participations and recommendations); ROI.
3.4 The assessment reports of digital PR projects must include a project summary, project research, project strategy, project implementation, project assessment.

Chapter 4 The payment procedures for digital PR
4.1 Digital PR is a personalized service, that should be rewarded in the form of service fee, and the amount of this fee is established in light of the level and the expertise of those providing the service. The service fee is normally established in light of the number of people participating in the project and the time spent on the project.
4.2 Payment should follow these international procedures:
Payment item: project operative cost; consultancy service fee; project management fee, management taxes.
Payment procedure: project service fee; consultancy fee; project management fee.
4.3 Nowadays there are four main payment procedures: payment at the moment of the completion of the project; payment according to the quantity of work in the project; payment according to the time spent on the project; payment according to the results of the project.

Chapter 5 The service management of digital PR agencies
5.1 Digital PR agencies must all comply with the rules and the regulations of the national corporate law. These include: companies should register before operating; they should organize and define the higher organs of management (such as the shareholder, the board of administration, etc.) and their responsibilities; keep the accountancy books; settle taxes; mismanagements or failure to comply with these regulation can result in criminal act.
5.2 Digital PR agencies should respect the following conditions: have a solid initial capital (not less than 100k RMB); have a fixed company address; have good office and communication conditions; feature two PR consultants with at least five years of experience in PR; a definite number of clients or potential clients.
5.3 Digital PR agencies must set up their organizational structure according to the management objectives, and should be divided into: market department; client service department; creative department; media management department; activity management department and administration department. Alternatively, they can be divided according to industries into: IT client department; financial client department; consumption goods department; public affairs department. Finally, it could be divided into regions of activity into: international affairs department and local affairs department.

Chapter 6 The development of the profession of online PR
6.1 Online public relations practitioners should have a variety of professional skills, expertise and professional experience. Strategic thinking, innovation, organizational sense, interpersonal skills, analytic spirit and problem solving skills should be the common features of successful online PR professionals.
6.2 Business operations of online public relations generally involve seven main teams: management team; project management and customer service teams; strategic planning team; media relations and media executive team; creative design and art production team; R & D and technology team and administrative support team.
6.3 Generally speaking, the online public relations professional ladder is mainly composed of the following levels: junior positions (Customer Assistant, Account Executive); intermediate positions (Account Manager, Senior Account Manager); senior positions (Assistant Account Director, Account Director, Senior Account Director, Vice President, Senior Vice President). In order to be promoted from the junior level to senior positions most of the professionals need 8-10 years of experience in the field.
6.4 Training programs should be organized for every level of professionals working in online PR. Content of training should include: online communication means, online interaction strategy, public relations, introduction to research methods, project proposal writing, proposal and bidding, event planning and management, online media analysis and research, online media relations program, marketing, brand management, crisis management, case studies and analysis, project management, customer management, impact assessment and strategic consulting. Junior professionals should be given 100 hours of training each year; mid-level professionals should be given 60 hours of training each year; senior professionals should be given 30 hours of training each year.

Chapter 7 Professional ethics of the online public relations practitioners
7.1 Public relations businesses should abide by the Internet Self-discipline Convention. In specific: they should ensure that the content and means of dissemination of information are consistent with the relevant provisions of the national law; they should ensure content integrity, authenticity and accuracy, and that content disseminated on the Internet is not inconsistent with objective reality; they should ensure that the content of information does not involve politically sensitive topics or state-sensitive issues; they should not conceal the truth or deceive the public; they should not engage in any immoral or dishonest activity, or damage the dignity or the reputation of others; they should not provide any form of attack or defamation towards a competitor; they should not use any copyrighted material without lawfully clearing the rights.

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Asia Social Media Stats: The Video!

This video on Social Media in APAC was created for a recent internal meeting of our regional Digital Influence team. Below is a transcript of the statistics. Enjoy!

Asia is a diverse continent with different cultures, different languages, and different levels of economic development. One of the most exciting differences today, however, is the difference in digital ecosystems.

Countries with a similar level of development can have extremely different ways of approaching the Internet. In Korea, broadband connections are available virtually everywhere, while Japan’s Internet population is highly reliant on mobile.

Strong digital ecosystems are not only present in the most developed countries in Asia. In fact, Indonesia will soon overtake the United Kingdom as the second largest Facebook population in the world.

The average youth in China has more friends online than offline, while Australia has one of the highest levels of social media engagement in the world. Australians spend an average of 6 hours and 52 minutes a month on Social Media.

Most of China’s social media users are spread across three main social media Websites: Kaixin (30 million accounts), Renren (40 million accounts), and QQ (376 million accounts).

Chinese netizens use domestic social media rather than international versions like Facebook primarily due to government blockage of foreign social media, but also cultural preferences.

In Asia, Internet life is highly mobile:

· Vietnam had an 846 percent growth of mobile Internet users in 2009.
· In Japan, 84.3 percent of the population goes on the Internet with a mobile phone.
· In Taiwan, 73.3 percent of mobile Internet users have 3G.
· The population of smartphone owners in Hong Kong is 48.6 percent.

Asia’s social media sites also have diverse source of revenue. In contrast to Facebook, the primary revenue source for many Asia social media sites is the sale of virtual items online.

Facebook, QQ, Mixi, and Cyworld collectively generate $392 million (USD) in revenue a year from the sale of virtual goods in the Asian online market.

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Dear Associated Press: Does this blog post break the law?

The Associated Press content charging machine is up and running.

To excerpt the words “financial terms were not disclosed” from an article about about Amazon buying Woot, the AP wants me (or any blogger) to pay US$17.50.

To me, this raises quite a few legal questions:

• Does that mean that I need to pay for this reference? (Disclosure: I did not pay US$17.50 to AP)
• What about “fair use”?
• Does one news organization now need to pay another for making reference to their scoop?
• Will AP charge for me making a link to their article? (If they do not charge for a link, how can I make reference to the article in a way that does not make me liable for being charged?)

They have made the charging aspect highly efficient, but raises many questions. (Perhaps it is clear to greater minds than me - please enlighten me!)

UPDATE: Hilariously, W00t has sent a bill to the AP for the quotes taken from the W00t blog.

(h/t to Danny Sullivan)

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Job: Asia-based Lloyd’s List Shipping Reporter

News of that rare beast…a job in journalism! The ad below is self-explanatory, so if you know anyone with a burning desire to write about Asia’s shipping industry please encourage them to apply.

Company: Lloyd’s List
Position: Senior Maritime Reporter/Editor (Asia)
Location: Hong Kong, Shanghai or Singapore, Asia
Job Status: Full-time
Salary: Negotiable

Description:
Lloyd’s List is a leading newspaper and website dedicated to the shipping industry. Due to expansion we are recruiting for the following position: SENIOR REPORTER / EDITOR (ASIA)

We are looking for an energetic journalist with at least three years’ experience in maritime or transportation reporting. Candidates with a strong business reporting or shipping industry background may also be considered.

Working with our Hong-Kong based Asia Bureau Chief, the senior reporter/editor will help shape Lloyd’s List coverage of Asian shipping and file daily news and markets stories, news analysis,
opinion pieces and copy for our regular special supplements for both print and online.

We are interested in candidates based in Hong Kong, Shanghai or Singapore. The post will entail some regional travel.

We are also happy to hear from free-lancers with industry knowledge based in South Korea.

Key responsibilities:

•  Provide real-time editorial coverage of shipping industry developments for online and print versions of Lloyd’s List
•  Develop topical and incisive features and news analysis pieces on a regular basis
•  Build and expand contacts in the maritime industry in Asia through frequent company visits, lunches and seminars.
•  Write columns, including opinion pieces/first-person point of view stories
•  Expand multimedia coverage: video, pod-cast, blogging, polls for www.lloydslist.com
•  Edit other team members’ copy

Key skills:

•  Strong writing skills: Candidates must be able to produce clean, accurate copy that requires minimal editing. Native-level English a must
•  Knowledge of the shipping industry. Transportation reporters or journalists with strong business reporting experience will also be considered
•  Candidates not meeting all the criteria as well as non-journalists with shipping industry experience may be considered for a junior reporter position
•  Education: Degree holder in economics or journalism-related discipline preferred
•  Language skills: Chinese (Mandarin) or Korean a plus

How to apply:

We offer a pleasant and dynamic working environment as part of a global team, a competitive salary, generous leave entitlement and other benefits.

Lloyd’s List is part of Informa Group plc., the leading international provider of specialist information and services for the academic, scientific, professional and commercial business communities. Please send a resume and cover letter, together with three writing samples that showcase a range of styles from news to features for print or online. Kindly state your current and expected salaries.

Materials via email or regular post should be submitted to:

Colum Murphy Asia Bureau Chief Lloyd’s List 23F, China Online Centre,
333, Lockhart Road, Wanchai, Hong Kong S.A.R. Email:
colum.murphy at informa dot com No phone calls please. We regret only
shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

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How do Foreign Correspondents use Social Media?

Are you a Foreign Correspondent covering China? Vincent Ni needs your help, details below. I will post the research outcome as soon as Vincent finishes the work.

Go on, help him out!!

This is a not-for-profit academic research project studying the role of social media (i.e. Twitter, Blog etc.) in foreign news bureaux covering China.

Any foreign journalist/producer/Chinese news assistant working in Mainland China or Hong Kong may take this quick survey. 

This survey is highly confidential, and is only used for research purpose. Participants can resume or quit the questionnaire at any point while doing it. A copy of the research is available upon request. The researcher is Vincent Ni at the Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford.

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Twitter’s Ascension in Japan

One of Asia’s great rapid growth stories in Social Media over recent months has been the Twitter’s ascension in Japan. This graphic, from a presentation delivered last week by Nielsen, shows Twitter passing even Mixi, one of Japan’s homegrown social networks.

The success of Twitter runs in stark contrast with other foreign Web 2.0 platforms. Less than 5 percent of Japan’s netizens are on Facebook (compared with more than 60 percent of US netizens); MySpace never broke through to more than 5 percent of the population while more than 35 percent of US netizens signed up, according to ComScore.

I have written about two cultural explanations previously:

Twitter actually means blog: One reason for the possible appeal of Twitter in Japan and Sina Weibo in China is how much can be expressed in 140 characters. Each character in Chinese and Japanese is equivalent to a word, making microblogs more like blogs.

Japanese like to blog anonymously: Or as Aki Akimoto put it to me, Blog Anonymously to Avoid Sushi. Interestingly, the translation of Twitter is “Mumble”.

Some other items on the Japan Twitter phenomenon from an Associated Press story:

- The proportion of Japanese Internet users who tweet (16.3 percent) now surpasses the ratio among Americans at (9.8 percent).

- Tweet examples: Retailer Tokyu Hands uses Twitter to answer queries; Uniqlo has used Twitter in marketing by setting up a virtual queue where people tweet with each other and get freebies; There is a hit TV show featuring characters that tweet; One Tokyo bar features a screen showing tweets along with World Cup games; Among the top Tweeters are pop idols, a former prime minister.

- Nearly 8 million tweets a day are written by Japanese, or about 12 percent of the global total, according to Twitter. Data from Tweet Sentiments, a web site that analyzes tweets, show Japanese are sometimes tweeting more frequently than Americans.

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India’s Demographic Dividend: The Digital Impact

India’s “Demographic Dividend” is the current focus (and “Most Read” article) of Booz & Co’s Strategy + Business magazine.

The article is a recap of a panel discussion in which I took part a few months ago in New Delhi, hosted by Thomas A. Stewart Booz & Co’s Chief Marketing and Knowledge Officer.

The basis of the “demographic dividend” is that in 2020, the average age in India will be only 29 years, compared with 37 in China and the United States, 45 in western Europe, and 48 in Japan. Moreover, 70 percent of Indians will be of working age in 2025, up from 61 percent now. Also by 2025, the proportion of children younger than 15 will fall to 23 percent of India’s total population, from 34 percent today, while the share of people older than 65 will remain around just 5 percent.

The panelists were a fascinating mixture of perspectives and included CK Prahalad the famed co-author of The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid (Wharton School Publishing, 2005), The New Age of Innovation (McGraw-Hill, 2008) and professor of strategy at the University of Michigan’s business school. Sadly, CK, whom I had the pleasure of meeting half a dozen times over the years died in mid-April.

Also taking part was Shobana Kamineni, executive director of new initiatives for the Apollo Hospitals Group, which operates 46 hospitals in India and overseas that do medical procedures - including open heart surgery - at a fraction the cost of hospitals in developed nations. Their outcomes rival the Mayo Clinic and other major hospitals.

My role was to speak about the digital opportunities that will come out of India’s rising young demography. (Clearly my answers were slanted to my role. Broadband is not THE priority for developing an economy, I just wanted to emphasize its role.)

Excerpts of my thoughts:

On building skills and training India’s young workforce:

The problem I see in trying to develop skills is a new form of discrimination: age discrimination. Few people are willing to tap the true potential of the digital world, in which teenagers live, as a teaching platform.

First of all, a game like Counterstrike helps build intercultural communication and leadership skills that will be key as India and other emerging economies look to export high-value-added services. Second, contrast the experience a teenager has moving from the highly compelling and rich online environment of an immersive video game to a book-based system built on rote learning. If schools could learn to make mathematics and composition as compelling as online games, the generation would enthusiastically educate itself.

The impact of India’s urbanization:

Urbanization will bring about tremendous transformations because suddenly you have hundreds of millions of people with access to broadband and mobile Internet. You have people who are able to use all these platforms for the first time. It brings them into a whole new way of being able to interact with others.

The one thing to remember, though, is that India is not like China. China has an incredible broadband infrastructure. India does not. But India is moving ahead in a big way into mobile-based Internet. It will be interesting to compare the progress and innovation of India’s mobile phone culture with Indonesia’s at the less-developed end and Japan’s at the more-developed end.

What developmental priority would you set the government?

I’d put connectivity as the top priority. With connectivity, you’re going to suddenly find all these scalable solutions that were never available before. The difference between somebody who can get online only a little and someone who cannot get online at all is massive. If you can make it an objective to provide people with connectivity, they will find ways to solve problems before they become big. Solutions will arise that would otherwise have been totally unavailable. Some skill problems may start to solve themselves, as Professor Sugata Mitra of NIIT [an Indian IT training company] in Delhi found after placing a computer in the wall of the institute. Children from the adjoining impoverished neighborhood began teaching themselves how to use computers, and unsupervised computer learning was born. You’ll also find online universities growing to fill a huge portion of the training agenda.

I would appreciate reactions/thoughts!

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Face-To-Face Beats Social Media

This week a large portion of our Asia-Pacific Social Media team came to Hong Kong for a summit gathering.

It has been exciting to see the progress the markets have made over the last year and get a close look at the work in the pipeline. Already flooded with demand from companies, organizations and individuals seeking help in Social Media, our team look set to see continued explosive growth.

More exciting than that, however, has been watching the team dynamic grow and deepen in a way that would not be possible in any context outside of a face-to-face meeting.

I may preach about the power of Social Media, but it is self-evident from this meeting that face-to-face meetings retain value that cannot - yet - be attained through digital communication.

Social Media will, however, be a key way to sustain and deepen these bonds.

That said, we have been using Social Media to share our meeting with team members who could not make it on: Live video via Ustream, photos on Flickr, all documents and presentations put the team Wiki, Twitter hashtag #360di and also offering tips on Foursquare.

How do the attendees feel about the meeting? Here’s a Tweet:

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Gadget Heaven in Hong Kong

Wanchai Computer Centre is Hong Kong’s gadget heaven. Not only do you get a wide range of amazing gadgets, but they are cheap, due to Hong Kong’s tax-free status.

Similar in spirit to Tokyo’s Akihabara or Thailand’s Pantip Plaza, Wanchai computer center is one of those unique Asia tech bazaars. (Sadly Taipei recently moved their computer center from old bomb shelters to a new building)

This video was done by Tem Hansen and Andrea Fenn to welcome members of Ogilvy’s regional Digital Influence team to Hong Kong for our regional Social Media summit.

It is an internal only meeting, but we plan a Hong Kong Foursquare swarm. Let me know if you want to join!

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Job: Shanghai Correspondent Seeks News Assistant

Correspondent in Shanghai seeks full-time news assistant.

Correspondent working for a range of foreign media, including the UK Daily Mail, the Guardian, Wallpaper and Danwei seeks a full-time news assistant.

Responsibilities include fixing interviews, translation, coming up with original ideas and developing contacts and sources. Travel within China will be required on occasion. Fluent written and spoken Chinese and English required.

Knowledge of Chinese business, and ability to conduct investigative work appreciated. Hours can sometimes be unpredictable. A broad and curious mind essential.

Please apply to: tmmpress at gmail dot com

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