In these days of economic woe, potential pandemic disease, and widespread civil unrest, it may come as a surprise that so many people around the world still view nuclear conflict as the greatest threat facing humanity. They do so with good reason.

Meetings will be about more than economics and trade

Agreement raises chances that Xi and Abe will meet at Apec

As China shifts from being the world’s workshop to its main financier, only the US has the capacity to absorb China's savings. The resulting imbalances should be welcomed as a spur to global growth – just as they have been in the past.

This is a tricky time to be a state, and an even trickier time to be a citizen. The nation-state, the classic provider of security and basic wellbeing in exchange for citizens’ loyalty, is under threat – both at home and as the fundamental unit of international affairs.

China's GDP growth amy slow to 6.8% in 2015 and 6.5% in 2016, mainly dragged down by the ongoing property downturn, predicts Wang Tao, head of China economics research at UBS AG, in a research report. China's property sector has reached a structural turning point, marked by oversupply and faltering investment demand for property. Although […]

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UBS AG has established a new team in Hong Kong to provide advisory and investment solution services in Asia Pacific to meet increasing interests among investors to pursue a sustainable investment approach, according to a company announcement. Investors around the world are realizing the economic opportunities of investing sustainably and that there is an effective […]

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Asia-focused venture capital firm Arbor Ventures has held a first close of US$100 million for its maiden fund, according to media reports. The fund has a fundraising target of US$125 million, and is expecting a final close next April. The International Finance Corporation is committing up to US$10 million into the fund, according to a […]

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Macquarie Funds Group, the fund management division under Mcquarie Group, has held a US$1.1 billion first close for its first pan-Asian infrastructure fund, according to media reports. Macquarie Infrastructure and Real Assets, the alternative asset management arm under Macquarie Funds Group, launched the fund earlier this year with a US$2.5 billion target. According to a […]

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Despite strong attention focused on allocation to alternatives such as private equity and real estate by Asian sovereign wealth funds (SWFs), their allocations to equities continued to dominate through year-end 2013, says a report by research firm Cerulli Associates Asia. About 70% of Singapore's Temasek Holdings' investments are in listed securities, according to the Singapore […]

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China’s central bank will likely intensify the effort to lower the cost of funds in the real economy as the economy has not showed signs of a sound recovery, says a research report by the Australia and New Zealand Banking Group Limited (ANZ). The People's Bank of China (PBoC) just disclosed the details of its […]

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A year after Deutsche Asset & Wealth Management and Harvest Global Investments Limited launched the first Renminbi Qualified Foreign Institutional Investor (RQFII) product outside of Hong Kong, the two say they have raised over US$1 billion under the program, according to a joint announcement. RQFII allows qualified holders of RQFII quota to raise funds outside […]

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Charity in officially atheist country is world’s biggest publisher of the good book

Beijing-based face recognition technology platform Face++ has received US$22 million series B financing from Qiming Venture Partners and Innovation Works, according to the official Weibo account of Kai-Fu Lee, founder of Innovation Works. The latest financing round reportedly valued the company at US$100 million. Founded in 2012, Face++ received angel investment from Chinese angel investor […]

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Chinese Bitcoin exchange website BTCChina has reached a strategic deal with e-commerce providers, including online game service provider Shenzhoufu.com; Internet P2F financial management website Aicaike.com; and maternal and child product retail website Dandanchina.com. According to the agreements, BTCChina will provide Bitcoin payment services to those e-commerce enterprises, which expand payment channels for Internet users, help […]

Relations are at a 40 year low but, with the leaders set to meet, can they do anything to ease tensions?