Bronze heads of a rat and rabbit were among items looted from the old Summer Palace in Beijing, sacked by French and British troops in 1860
2013-04-30
Unlike many equally poor countries, India has a strong entrepreneurial class, a reasonably large and well-educated middle class, and a number of world-class corporations that can be enlisted in the effort to provide public goods. Why, then, has India’s GDP growth slowed so much, from nearly 10% in 2010 and 2011 to 5% today?
2013-04-30
Opposition leader calls for expulsion of Chinese troops in Indian-controlled territory as People’s Liberation Army erects fifth tent at Himalayan border
2013-04-30
Intel Capital's portfolio company, Hsinchu City, Taiwan-based ASPEED Technology Inc., IPOs today on Taiwan's GreTai Securities Market, the island's over-the-counter market. Reflecting a still tough IPO market worldwide, this is Intel Capital's first IPO by one of its portfolio companies this year. Founded in 2004, ASPEED Technology is a software and network applications company. “ASPEED's […]
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2013-04-30
Yum announced that its net profit decreased by 27% year-on-year to USD337 million in the first quarter of 2013, mainly attributing to the sales and profit decline in the Chinese market. According to Yum, the parent company of Taco Bell, KFC and Pizza H…
2013-04-30
The Chinese telecoms equipment seller’s about-turn on the US market raises questions over how much further its rapid global rise can go
2013-04-30
The opaque nature of China’s government makes it difficult to see where Chinese economic policy is heading, and thus how the Chinese economy will develop in the years ahead. But China’s new leaders have signaled where they want the economy to go, and, most important, they have put talented people in charge of the process.
2013-04-30
E-commerce company Alibaba Group is to pay US$586 million for an 18 percent stake in Sina Corp's Weibo microblog service, it announced yesterday.
2013-04-30
E-commerce company Alibaba Group is to pay US$586 million for an 18 percent stake in Sina Corp's Weibo microblog service, it announced yesterday.
2013-04-30
CHINA'S leading developers were out in force when a four-day real estate fair opened at the Shanghai Exhibition Center yesterday.
2013-04-30
CHINA'S leading developers were out in force when a four-day real estate fair opened at the Shanghai Exhibition Center yesterday.
2013-04-30
China Mobile has terminated its sale purchase agreement with Taiwan's Far EasTone signed in 2009. China Mobile attributes the cancellation to the inability to have foreign investment in the Taiwanese basic telecom industry. According to the company's r…
2013-04-29
HANGZHOU-BASED Alibaba will pay US$586 million for 18% stake of Sina weibo, the twitter-like microblog service.
2013-04-29
HANGZHOU-BASED Alibaba will pay US$586 million for 18% stake of Sina weibo, the twitter-like microblog service.
2013-04-29
NASDAQ-traded Focus Media says today that shareholders have voted to approve a deal to privatize the company, adding to a long list of Chinese companies that have quit foreign exchanges. Previously announced on December 19 last year, the go-private deal values the Shanghai-based Chinese advertising company at $3.7 billion at a price tag of $27.50 […]
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2013-04-29
Hong Kong's Centre for Food Safety announced the results of a targeted surveillance project on microbiological quality of bottled water. All 60 samples of bottled water reportedly passed the tests. The samples cover a variety of bottled water, includin…
2013-04-29
Chinese online game developer and operator Giant Interactive Group Inc. announced that its board of directors has appointed Liu Wei, former president of Giant, as new chief executive officer; and appointed Ji Xuefeng, former senior development vice pre…
2013-04-29
Economist reports: On their conservative calculations, China spent over $300 billion, in nominal terms, on the biggest SOEs between 1985 and 2005. This help often came in the form of cheap capital and underpriced inputs unavailable to international rivals. The…