Happy Monkey, I Mean Money, Year, Hong Kong is Back For Business

This week: Riots on New Years, HK topples UK, Selfie battles + more!

Everyone ready to rock the year of the monkey? Hong Kong is back open for business after their Chinese New Year, but Mainland China is still pretty much closed until next week. Been busy being a daddy and studying Chinese!

New Years Eve in HK gone wrong…. riot breaks out.

One of my friends on Facebook, Lucian, commented this was the real reason:

“Triad disputes with the environmental department of HK trying to close down the illegal hawkers who don’t have a permit to sell food on the side of the street…”

Booyah!! Hong Kong topples London as #1 tourist spot

via Andre Martin

This is a fun post – the differences in beauty between USA and China as told from selfie pics

via Chris Moore

Listen to this week’s podcast

Our friend Mike Bellamy is back! This time talking about a pretty complex international business topic – transfer pricing. We dig into what it is, how to balance buying from China, trading to Hong Kong, and selling in your home market. Lots of great info so be sure to tune in now!

On the blog

Quite a few blog posts rocking out so check the blog for all of them. One to highlight is a full explanation of the “F2C”, factory to consumer trend that we’ve been talking.

Hong Kong Supercharged News

Everyone overseas can’t wait for Hong Kong to be back open! Its a bit tricky to balance emails and holiday – when everyone in USA and Europe is business as usual. I’m just happy Hong Kong is back open and we can get back to banking!

Photo of the Week

Superbowl + Chinese New Year overlapped this year. Waking up early is my normal routine, so no problemo! This Monday morning headed out w/ my buddy Dave to the local Western pub to catch the ‘bowl.