The Chinese central bank just announced a targeted bank reserve requirement ratio (RRR) cut, but there is much hope that a full-scale RRR cut will ease credit conditions and arrest the slowdown in the real economy. But such expectation is misplaced, because the RRR is not the only or main constraint to credit expansion in […]

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The Shanghai government is trying to give the neighbourhood committee a makeover by replacing some old biddies with college graduates

Former British colony is growing concerned over the future of democracy in a city that has always prided itself on being freer than mainland China

Top Chinese smartphone maker Meizu has signed a retail deal that could be worth CNY2 billion within a year. Meizu and electronics retailer Suning will form a strategic partnership to build 300 specialty stores and complete sales of CNY2 billion within 12 months. Under the deal, Suning will build 300 Meizu experience stores and complete […]

Hedge funds investing in Greater China rebounded from their past two consecutive months of losses and returned 0.42% in May, though they remain in negative territory year-to-date with losses of 3.68%, according to the latest data from hedge fund research and data firm Eurekahedge. The broader Asian hedge fund managers were up 1.33% with funds […]

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Beijing’s recent efforts to support flagging growth through looser monetary policy could be complicated if price increases start to accelerate

Chinese car maker BYD Auto Co., Ltd. has agreed to establish a strategic partnership with Beijing-based Chinese investment firm CSC Group to launch a RMB1.5 billion (US$241 million) fund to invest in the new energy automobile sector in China, according to a joint announcement. The fund will invest in projects to build electric car recharge […]

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Brazil may be in the international spotlight – hosting the World Cup this month and the 2016 Summer Olympics – but it maintains considerable barriers to the global economy. In a world that is constantly becoming more interconnected, Brazil risks being left behind.

US President Barack Obama recently stated that some of America’s most costly mistakes since WWII were the result not of restraint, but of a “willingness to rush into military adventures.” Though Obama may be right, his critics continue to demand bolder – and far riskier – foreign policy, particularly toward Syria and Ukraine.

Syria’s seemingly endless civil war, waged without regard for international law, has left countless civilians at fate’s mercy. The international community should have done more to prevent this disaster; now it has become this generation’s greatest humanitarian challenge.

The author is Nomura economist Zhang Zhiwei The Chinese government has released further information regarding a meeting hosted by Premier Li Keqiang on June 6 with eight provincial officials to discuss economic conditions. The press release quoted some unusually strong words from Premier Li, including "We said in the past that government officials should not […]

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About RMB50 billion will be released into the interbank system as a result of the Chinese central bank's latest targeted bank reserve requirement ratio (RRR) cut. Therefore, the policy initiative's direct impact is quite small and markets could be somewhat disappointed, according to a report by BofA Merrill Lynch Global Research. The People's Bank of […]

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Asia-Pacific excluding Japan posted the strongest growth in the global private wealth market, growing 30.5% in 2013. The market is expected to overtake Western Europe as the second-wealthiest region in 2014, and to overtake North America as the wealthiest region globally in 2018, says a new report by The Boston Consulting Group (BCG). The report, […]

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CrowdStrike, a cyber security company, claims to have found a group of hackers based in Shanghai and operating under the code name ‘Putter Panda’

Despite two thirds of Limited Partners (LPs) believing weaker sentiment towards emerging markets will hurt returns for existing private equity funds, the proportion of LPs with a tenth or more of their private equity exposure to the Asia-Pacific region will double over the next three years, according to a report by private equity secondary market […]

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Following a 13-hour auction, China Sanpower Group and Sailing Capital International finally bought the American bankrupt retail giant Brookstone Holdings Corp. for over USD173 million. News reports quoted the lawyer of Brookstone saying that after the completion of the acquisition, Sanpower Group and Sailing Capital International plan to shut 25 Brookstone stores. No more details […]

Showcasing perhaps the closeness between Chinese technology firms and the Chinese government's upper echelons, Qihoo 360 has hired a former top Chinese official as a vice president. The Chinese Internet security company confirmed to local media that Chen Xitong, former spokesperson for the General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine of China, has resigned […]

China, the world’s largest mobile market, was home to 630 million unique mobile subscribers at the end of 2013, representing about 46% of the country’s population, according to a report by mobile Internet organization the GSM Association. There were 1.13 billion active mobile connections in China at the end of 2013, which means millions of […]

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