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Sunday, 20th May 2012

Irish Born Chinese

Some positive news all round for Ireland from Enda’s visit to China

Some positive news all round for Ireland from Enda’s visit to China, here's a selection of news from the last couple of days:-

Ireland the "Hong Kong of Europe"?

Came across this article from The China Daily and the headline itself was enough to raise my eyebrows? I am not sure what to think ...

Ireland to increase its visibility in China by a special CNY performance

Ouch, reading that first line in the Irish Independent that "Irish diplomatic efforts have failed to make any impact in China". Ireland has been late ...

Enticing Christmas shoppers to park in the city

With half-price parking in Dublin (for those with parking tags) to free parking in Limerick, shops hope to pull shoppers away from retail parks and ...


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Chinese tourists spending in Brown Thomas up this year Attracting shoppers to retail stores are hard nowadays, never mind spending money on luxury goods. Chinese tourists buck the trend though. I've seen influx of ...
Hong Kong still is the most expensive place to rent office space Hong Kong is one of the priciest areas to rent office space especially in Central. So much so, a few corporations moved out of Central ...
Huawei, another Chinese company to create jobs in ireland They make network equipment and may create up to 150 jobs in Ireland. Read more about it from The Irish Times: Huawei may create up to ...
Aer Rianta to run retail outlets at Chinese airport Some good news, Aer Rianta has signed a contract to run several retail outlets at the new Kunming Changshui International Airport in Yunnan.Other mentions:TheJournal.ie - In photos: ...
Ajisen Noodles in the news I wasn't aware that Ajisen (chain of Japanese noodle restaurants in Hong Kong and China) had its trading on the stock market suspended because of ...
Laser cards replaced by debit cards, hike in card fees The card fee hikes are on the retail side, instead of a flat 15c charge for each transaction, retailers can be charged up to €1.55 ...
Z-we-ton taking over spot vacated by Luigi Malones in Limerick Z-we-ton Chinese restaurant will be re-modeling the space where Luigi Malones use to be. To be honest, Luigi's down in Limerick was not that great ...
DWS organisers plan to bring over top Asian tech founders Organisers of Dublin Web Summit and F.ounders are planning to bring together investors from China and India. It will be very interesting which Asian companies ...
Irish distressed properties successful auction in Dublin yesterday 50 bidders from all over the world were phone bidding on Irish properties in Dublin yesterday (including Hong Kong). However, many Irish bidders turned up ...
New 9% VAT in force in Ireland till 2012 The new reduction in VAT from 13.5% to 9% comes into effect today for services like takeaways, restaurants, hotels, cinemas, haircuts, newspapers, magazines (and more...).In ...