Posts Tagged ‘law’

(Papa’s Got a Brand New Bag, by the late James Brown)

At Foxhole Number 2, Staring At the Marble Wall
Around 13h-ish (I Should Have Checked)
Drinking Coffee and Channeling My Inner Bloggitude

Alright kids, Funtime Friday today at ADM.com. Time to have a little fun as the weekend quickly approaches.

So I’ve been spitballing lately: what are the Top Ten things Kro Bauer might get his hands dirty with now that he’s looking for a brand new gig? I suppose this is going to be another one of those “summary” posts, concatenating the plethora of great ideas I’d read at the various posts sprouting up since The Kro’s Nest affair shattered the Chinese blogging airwaves a week ago.

And while this may seem like a stab at ADM humor, my tongue set so deeply dans la bouche that I just might gag on it, you’ll instantly notice there’s a bit of method to my madness.

Hey Kro – if you’re reading this – let me know what you think!

(UPDATE: For those of you who have no idea who Kro Bauer is, you’ll want to bone up here first).

So without further ado…and not necessarily in any kind of order.

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Much has been written over the past 72 hours about the fate of The Kro’s Nest, that soon-to-be formerly famous Beijing eatery that had, since its inception back in 2006 to much fanfare, been the mainstay for many a capital city pizza-and-beer craving expatriate.

For those who aren’t engrossed in such trivial matters, as we humble China bloggers and Beijing watchers sometimes appear to be, the line on this truly sordid tale sounds strikingly similar to a growing litany of bad business deals which have been littering Beijing’s cutthroat business scene of late. Beijing is rapidly becoming known for its backstabbing, double-crossing, and skullduggery and this can’t bode well for future investment.

Now I warn you in advance: there’s a heap of she-said/he-said shots across the bow and conjecture here: from what I’ve gathered in my own coverage of this case of greed, betrayal, aggression, and. now, slander (described so very eloquently here, here, and mostly here), emotions have been running very high and journalists are having a field day picking apart the unobjective emotionality of this story.

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Dan Harris‘ excellent blogpost about the fact that it pays to be legal — in all aspects of your business affairs…