Choy's podcast - Life and business in Asia
Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
Episodes
Entrepreneurs family behind the Meraki Hospitality Group
20 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Jean-Michel Offe had an amazing journey so far as a French chef going abroad: from North America, to the MIddle East and then Asia, in charge of teams...
Bernard Hor, the Southeast Asian entrepreneur
06 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Bernard Hor's journey as an entrepreneur started quite early on by hustling where he could in his own surroundings in Malaysia. This mentality lead to...
Entrepreneurs series - 3 Sustainable Start-ups in Hong Kong
30 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode I will be talking to eco entrepreneurs representing 3 amazing sustainable start-ups in Hong Kong who showed their innovative and susta...
Interview with Trisch Kirkpatrick and Anouk de Graaff - international business consultants around the globe
17 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Hidden gems who usually fly under the radar: two amazing ladies with tons of experience from working all over the world! Meet Trisch Kirkpatrick and A...
Networking: why and how? With Nerice Gietel, certified executive coach and founder of The Career Lounge
08 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Nerice Gietel, a certified executive coach has more than 15 years of experience in deploying her skills to support others to develop personally and pr...
Catching up with entrepreneurs Jaap Pees, Katharina Darisse and Samson Ngov - what happened after a Covid year?
07 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This episode is all about updating you what happened with 3 entrepreneurs I interviewed a year ago (at least)! What can happen in a life or a business...
Foreign investment in Dubai vs China
28 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode I have my colleagues Alejandra Esmoris from our Bonnard Lawson office in Dubai and Zach Lichtblau from our Shanghai office to talk abo...
Mark Dekker - Dutch architect in China
23 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This episode's guest is Mark Dekker, Dutch architect in Shanghai who has been in China for 9+ years. Mark represented several Dutch architect firms an...
Trademark registration in China - avoiding problems! With Emma Shen, PRC lawyer in Shanghai
16 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
We can not warn everyone enough that trademark registration in China is very important. In this episode my colleague Emma Shen, PRC lawyer and intelle...
Lee du Ploy, therapist and artist in Hong Kong
12 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
You can find Lee du Ploy in the Sun Yat Sen Park every morning dealing with his elderly patients and later in Hollywood park where he does "psychother...
Interview with Innocent Mutanga - founder of the Africa Center Hong Kong
03 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Innocent Mutanga from Zimbabwe has had an amazing journey so far and he learned so many life lessons as a political activist in his home country, a ho...
Importing from China - avoiding pitfalls as much as possible
19 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The whole world imports products from China - not for nothing China is called "the world's factory". We (as China advisers) came across so many proble...
DBLA - Murk Muller, Dutch and German lawyer in Berlin
30 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
For this Dutch Business Lawyers Abroad episode, I am going to Berlin, Germany! All the members of DBLA are legal experts in the country where we are l...
Entrepreneur series - Jay Xie from Agency China
18 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Jay Xie is a digital marketing veteran in Shanghai and Hangzhou who is helping European brands to start in China through his company Agency China. Wit...
Architect in Asia - Karma Barfungpa
09 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
I am honored to have found Mr. Karma Barfungpa willing to share his experience as an architect in Asia. As Asia has changed so much in the past two de...
Interview CJ Cheung - TV producer & host
04 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Dutch born Chinese CJ Cheung is using his background to create TV shows in Hong Kong and the Netherlands where he informs one culture about the other ...
Entrepreneurs series - the ladies of The Oh Collective
24 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Four female professionals from all over the world and with Asian heritage became friends in Shanghai. While working hard on their corporate careers, t...
DBLA - Jan Willem de Haan
12 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
For this Dutch Business Lawyers Abroad episode, I am going to Barcelona in Spain! All the members of DBLA are legal experts in the country where we ar...
Entrepreneurs series - Michele Bosch from Beconnected
07 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Michele Bosch has been in China for 14 years now and she is managing Beconnected in Shanghai with the offices overseas in Bangladesh, India, Russia an...
DBLA series - interview with Camila Borba Lefèvre, lawyer in Brazil
14 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
For this Dutch Business Lawyers Abroad episode, I am going to São Paulo in Brazil! All the members of DBLA are legal experts in the country where we ...
GDPR & PIPL - abbreviations that are super relevant for all that are dealing with data!
07 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
EU has its General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) since 2016 and China issued the draft Personal Information Protection Law (PIPL) - what do the 2 ...
Entrepreneurs series - Bas Fransen, founder of EcoMatcher
01 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
After a corporate career with decades in Asia and involvement in big deals, Bas Fransen takes a big bold step by deciding to become a start-up entrepr...
Entrepreneurs series - Interview with Michael G. Ehlert
24 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Michael G. Ehlert is a true entrepreneur with all sorts of businesses in the financial industry. His companies are spread all over the world but have ...
Discussion on the EU-China Comprehensive Agreement on Investment
09 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
With two special guests, lawyer Raquel Garcia-Argudo Mendes in Spain and sinologist Valérie Hoeks in the Netherlands, I discuss the impact and the me...
Interview with artist Marcel Heijnen
05 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Artist Marcel Heijnen received a lot of publicity with his Chinese Whiskers series - photos of cats in traditional shops in Hong Kong, and mainland Ch...
Entrepreneurs series - Godie van der Paal, founder of Kingdom of WoW in Cambodia
19 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Starting a footwear brand with wool slippers in tropical Siem Reap, Cambodia... sounds like a challenge! Not only did Godie van de Paal succeed to do ...
Interview with Oskar Valles, creator of the book "Dear Hong Kong" about diversity in Hong Kong with co-host Krystle Morris
08 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Oskar Valles came to Hong Kong 9 years ago as a regional finance executive for a multinational corporation but then he changed his life in order to gi...
DBLA series - Interview with Selma Ören, lawyer in Turkey
06 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
For this Dutch Business Lawyers Abroad episode, I am going to Antalya in Turkey! All the members of DBLA are legal experts in the country where they a...
E-commerce and import&export: interview with Simon de Raadt
28 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Simon de Raadt has been in China for over a decade and he became an expert in cross-border trade and logistics from and to China. This expertise also ...
Ask Choy anything - what would you tell your younger self?
22 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Arpita Vyas (20), is doing an internship at our Equasia office right now and we often find ourselves exchanging our views about life and career choice...
Sustainable investing - what does that mean?
19 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Sustainable investing means ESG (= environmental, social and governance). ESG is a hot topic and with all the new realizations we gained due to the pa...
After the race - Joyce Bijl made it and happy to share with us how it was!
18 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
It was great to see the attention Joyce Bijl got for the podcast interview in December about her planned fundraising triathlon in Dubai. She was able ...
DBLA series - Interview with Marinus Vromans, lawyer in Belgium
12 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
For this Dutch Business Lawyers Abroad episode, I am going to Antwerp in Belgium! All the members of DBLA are legal experts in the country where they ...
Entrepreneurs series - start-ups in Hong Kong
08 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
New year and new season! In this episode I have 3 brave entrepreneurs (all French!) in Hong Kong who just started their business. 1. Charles de la Por...
Interview with Joyce Bijl - Dutch athlete in Dubai
21 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Today I am going off topic for a very good reason: my good friend Joyce Bijl is going to do a fundraising triathlon (swim 3,8km, cycle 180 km and run ...
Interview with Jay Thornhill from Baopals - giving access to online shopping in China for foreigners
17 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Jay Thornhill is a real example of a success story of a foreigner making it in China as he is one of the 3 co-founders of Baopals, a website for Engli...
Entrepreneurs series - Interview with Chris Brown and Tiffany Liang from ReThink HK
11 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
It is clear that we have to change the way we live our lives in order to stop how we are damaging the planet. That change can not happen soon enough a...
DBLA series - Interview with Lodewijk Schlingemann in Russia
07 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
For this Dutch Business Lawyers Abroad episode, I am going to Moscow! All the members of DBLA are legal experts in the country where they are located ...
Interview with Gerard Morada about cybercrime, email scams, hacking and digital fraud
01 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In the past decade, we handled quite a few cybercrime cases where the culprits aim to establish fraudulent fund transfers. They usually succeed by hac...
Entrepreneurs series - Interview Ron Oren, founder of Trips@Asia
20 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Ron Oren is the founder and CEO of Trips@Asia, a travel company with more than 20 years of experience in creating private and custom made adventure to...
DBLA series - Interview with Carl van der Zandt in the US
12 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This is the second Dutch Business Lawyers Abroad episode and in this one, I am going to New York! Carl van der Zandt has been in the States for ...
Entrepreneurs series - Ron Efron
09 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Today's guest is Ron Efron who is born as an entrepreneur with a vision. After starting businesses in Israel, he decided in the late nineties that Chi...
Start-ups in Hong Kong
21 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
3 Different entrepreneurs in Hong Kong who just started their business. The 3 of them work in different industries, are in different stages of their e...
DBLA Series - Poland - doing business in Poland: interview with Remco van der Kroft
09 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Today we are going to Poland for an interview with Dutch lawyer, Remco van der Kroft. Like me, Remco is part of the Dutch Business Lawyers Abroad Asso...
Interview with Pascal Coppens - author, keynote speaker, sinologist and technology entrepreneur
23 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Pascal Coppens is the author of the book "China's new normal - how China sets the standard for innovation". Pascal tells me in this interview why he w...
Entrepreneurs stories - Gerd Lindemann
08 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Gerd Lindemann is the owner of Holtrop & Jansma B.V. established in 1960 and currently the largest specialist for advanced industrial air purifica...
Increasing sales in challenging times - Interview with sales expert Katharina Darisse
31 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
With the ongoing pandemic, many are facing challenging times: dropped sales, unemployment and limited business development opportunities. But ... it i...
Interview with Stuart Gietel - Basten - Professor of Social Science and Public Policy at HKUST
19 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The work of Stuart Gietel - Basten, Professor of Social Science and Public Policy at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, is focu...
Closing down operations in China - not so fast!
05 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this podcast Hugo Muller, co-owner of Equasia and I address what some entrepreneurs are unfortunately facing right now during the pandemic: should ...
The legal representative
17 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Chinese limited liability companies need to appoint a legal representative. In this podcast I will tell you that why this is the most important positi...
Entrepreneurs stories - Long Au
03 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Today's guest is my friend and client Long Au. Long's family escaped Vietnam in 1979 as boat refugees when he was just a baby. Now in his early 40's, ...
The future of Hong Kong
18 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Hi everyone, In this podcast I will talk about Hong Kong and its future. A lot has happened in the past year here and people ask me what to expe...
Entrepreneur stories - Valérie Hoeks
16 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In the entrepreneurs series, my today's guest is Valérie Hoeks. Valérie and I go way back as we met in Shanghai in 2006. Fast forwarding to 2020 whe...
Reasons to set up an entity in China
09 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Hi everyone! Welcome to my show. In this episode I will talk about reasons to set up a company in China. Incorporating a company in China is not easil...
Entrepreneurs stories - Samson Ngov
02 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In the entrepreneurs series, my next guest is Samson Ngov. French architect and now an entrepreneur who is working relentlessly on his invention Onigi...
Interview with Diogo Garces Reis - professional boxer and lawyer in China
29 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
One of my goals with the podcast is to connect, share and inspire and with this interview with my amazing colleague Diogo Garcês Reis I nailed it. Lo...
Hiring staff in China
28 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Episode 5 is online! In this podcast I inform you about the employment agreement in China - what are the things to pay attention to when you are hirin...
Covid19 around the world
25 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Messages from friends over the world with an update how Covid19 affected their lives. With thanks to: Carl van der Zandt in New York, US ...
Entrepreneur stories - Jaap Pees
22 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Hello everyone! Today’s guest is Dutch entrepreneur Jaap Pees. Although Jaap is relatively young, he is experienced in different industries. H...
The do's and dont's of doing business in China
21 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Hello everyone! In this podcast I give you 5 do's and don'ts of doing business in China. I hope you apply them because it is better to prevent p...
Trailer - introduction
18 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Hi everyone! Welcome to my podcast! Happy that you are listening to me! This is the show’s trailer so let me introduce here who I am and what the sh...