Post Event Notes: With an audience made up of predominantly bankers, investors and professionals (accountants, lawyers, immigration consultants, real estate agents and mortgage brokers), Yi Ping was a star presenter and well received. She talked about tax residency, land transactions and ownership/financial structuring regarding overseas investments.     [box] The seminar will be conducted in Mandarin. […]

It has been the sixth year since I started my annual China Trip visiting existing clients and exploring business opportunities in general. I have written an article about “tips on travel in China” previously but thought it was time to write another article with an updated picture. Train or Flight? The train system in China […]

Tramping in New Zealand during winter is dangerous and not that enjoyable, the same applies to Australian and South American trails. So when the craving for dirt protein kicks in, I turned my eyes to the US. A little research on long distance walks in the US yielded 120,000 km of well-formed and maintained tramping […]

This year, myself and Greg Rathbun attended PrimeGlobal’s combined World and Asian Pacific conference in Ho Chi Min city. First, a bit of history regarding our association Gilligan Sheppard joined ‘Polaris International’ in 2009 and the Asia Pacific meeting was held in Auckland, where we hosted firms from all over the world in our offices. […]