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Peng Wensheng [China Daily] China International Capital Corp has hired Peng Wensheng, head of China research at Barclays Capital, as chief economist to replace Ha Jiming. Peng, who joined Barclays in June 2008 from the Hong Kong Monetary Authority, confirmed the appointment when ...
Billionaire Li Ka-shing made his biggest investment in Hutchison Whampoa Ltd shares in at least seven years, boosting a stock that's already been the best performer of the month in Hong Kong's Hang Seng Index. Hong Kong tycoon Li Ka-shing shows off his iPhone to journalists at ...
HONG KONG - Hong Kong-listed Chinese electronics retailer Gome Electrical Appliances said it filed a writ of summons against former chairman Huang Guangyu at HK's High Court on Thursday for Huang's alleged breach of fiduciary duties in early 2008 as a former board director. Huang ...
A farmer who uses Shengmingsu produced by Wu Zishen's Yongye International harvests cucumbers on his farmland in North China's Inner Mongolia autonomous region. [Zhang Wei / China Daily] Yongye's products boost farmers' yields by up to 35 percent, says CEO Wu Zishen BEIJING - It ...
Tang Jun's biography "My success could be copied", remains on book store shelves in Beijing as of Monday. [China Daily] BEIJING: The fallout over the former president of Microsoft China's academic credentials appears to have overflowed onto companies related to him, which have ...
American investment guru Jim Rogers has debunked contrarian investor James S Chanos suggestions that China's investment bubble may lead to a Dubai-style implosion. Rogers said the Chinese economy is not in any imminent threat of collapse, and investors and companies are wise to ...
Daryl Guppy, the Australian investment guru, believes it could be only four years before the world economy achieves a full recovery. The 55-year-old, who makes regular appearances as a pundit on CNBC's Asia Squawk Box and is famed for his trademark walrus moustache, recently was ...
Richard Burton Editor's Note: Coface, an international credit insurance and credit management services group, in February downgraded its ratings for 22 countries and territories, while putting the two biggest emerging markets - China and Russia - on its negative watch list of A-3 ...
Stephen Green Group chairman, HSBC HSBC announced on Friday the relocation of group chief executive Michael Geoghegan from London to Hong Kong, signaling the bank's effort to enhance its presence in China and other Asian emerging markets. "We see China in particular, and Asia in ...
[Luo Jie] Billionaire Warren Buffett turned Dalian Dayang Trands Co into China's best-performing clothing stock after saying he wears the company's suits and praising it as "wonderful". Dayang, based in the northeastern city of Dalian, rose 9.97 percent to 14.67 yuan ($2.15) ...
Wu Yajun Wu proves that women can make it in sector traditionally dominated by men Longfor Properties president Wu Yajun is not only the richest woman in China but also the person in the country's real estate industry of whom least is known. After Longfor made its debut on the ...
Macao casino billionaire Stanley Ho, who has been hospitalized for the past four months, is "recovering nicely" and may be discharged soon, his son Lawrence said in a Bloomberg Television interview. "Hopefully, some time soon he can come out of the hospital," Lawrence Ho, 32, ...
Cheung Kong (Holdings) Ltd Chairman Li Ka-shing, Hong Kong's richest man, is buying more shares in the property developer, the worst-performing stock this year among the city's five biggest real-estate companies. Li paid HK$424 million for 4.39 million shares, about HK$96.50 each...
Global risk and business consulting firms such as Protiviti are eyeing China's IPO market for significant new business opportunities, especially at a time when the country has just launched ChiNext, its NASDAQ-style trading board. "The IPO market is a big market that affects our ...
Chen Fashu, regarded by many as China's Warren Buffett, yesterday announced that he would donate 45 percent of his personal assets, worth 8.3 billion yuan ($1.17 billion), to set up a charity modeled on the lines of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. The Newhuadu Philanthropi...
Evergrande Chairman Hui Ka-yan at the HK bourse. [Agencies] Shares of Evergrande Real Estate soared 34 percent on its trading debut yesterday, shrugging off the cold market reception towards the recent near deluge of property IPOs of mainland real estate players making similar ...
For a writer as renowned as Yu Qiuyu, not only knowledge could be earning him a fortune. His holdings in Xujiahui Commercial Center Co, a Shanghai-based retailer which is approved to list on the Shenzhen bourse, is estimated to add at least over 60 million yuan ($8.79 million) to ...
$1.8 billion Geely buys Volvo for $1.8 billion Zhejiang Geely Holding Group, China's No 10 automaker, sealed a deal on March 28 to buy ailing Swedish luxury car brand Volvo from US giant Ford for $1.8 billion. The deal is China's biggest overseas auto purchase, said analysts. ...
Low-risk bond funds seen as more appealing to worried investors BEIJING - Low-risk bonds are becoming more appealing to investors as funds that focus on the equity market suffered the biggest loss since 2008 due to the poor performance of the Chinese stock market. The domestic A...
Strong rise of yuan could be temporary: Analysts Beijing - China's central bank set the yuan's reference central parity rate on Friday to its highest level against the dollar since 2005's revaluation, despite growing concerns about the economic slow-down in China and the rest of ...
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China slams Japan's NHK governor's denial of Nanjing massacre
China slams Japan's NHK governor's denial of Nanjing massacre
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