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deScribes is our monthly update of news, events, publications, books, industry developments and goings-on to keep you fully briefed on what we’re doing in China – and on our travels through Asia

May 2008
Journeys
·This month, we visited (and worked in!) London, Singapore, Vienna and Florence.
 
Corporate Services
·Began work on Summer 2008 issue of Citibank China’s in-house staff magazine.
·Prepared marketing material for Hilton hotel.
 
Features
·Reviewed The Emperor design hotel in Beijing, Nanjing’s tourism potential, and compiled the monthly hotel and Asia-Pacific lifestyle and travel section for Beijing-based Urbane magazine.
·Wrote features on Chinese aviation for InTouch online magazine; Olympic ambush marketing for South China Morning Post; the spa industry in China for Lounge; a new Shanghai eco-design collective and Asia’s first carbon-neutral fitness club for That’s Shanghai magazine; and the return of The Peninsula’s Kadoorie family to Shanghai for Time Out.
 
Photography

·Portrait of William Li, CEO of Infinity-Equity in Suzhou, for CFO Asia magazine.
·Photo shoot feature on Chongqing published in a new book produced by the Anzenberger Agency in Vienna, called EAST.
·Photo exhibition entitled Cambodia, a Survived Land will open on June 21 in Foligno, Italy.
·Working in Italy throughout June.

 
New Publications
·Luxe City Guide Shanghai published in early May.
·Feature article on Beijing published in New York Times: T Magazine
·Wrote China intros for relaunched Concierge.com website.
·Shanghai and Beijing Highlights Guides now out in luxury five-star hotel rooms.
·Four weekly issues of e-update newsletter produced for www.BizChinaUpdate.com

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