I am in Singapore this week. Today I have company-related meetings followed by a few days at a Merrill Lynch conference. ML is having a corporate social responsibility conference tomorrow, at which I will be an attendee, and then they are having a regular investor conference at which I will be a panelist on their retail marketing/opportunities panel on Wednesday. More information on those things later in the week, but in the meantime read about Chinese retail news at our ChinaRetailNews.com.

Speaking of CSR, I see this morning our ChinaCSR.com posted a Q&A with Justin Guo, the new GM at soon-to-launch Doubletree in Beijing (English here; Chinese here). Some of my colleagues attended a round of press conferences in recent weeks in China where the Doubletree brand was consistently branded "green" in Asia (yes, I think that means as much "green" money as it does "green" eco-friendliness).