Beijing’s financial revenues totaled 508.13 billion yuan (US$72 billion) in 2016, a 7.5 percent increase year on year, according to the Beijing Municipal Bureau of Finance. It is the first time that the city’s financial…
Monthly Archives For January 2017
McDonald's agrees China franchise sale
Under the agreement signed Monday, the US fast food giant will keep a 20% stake in its China business. Citic will hold a 52% share in the partnership while Caryle takes 28% of the new…
Fall in China's forex reserves 'good news', yuan been overvalued – central bank advisor
BEIJING The decline in China’s foreign reserves is good news in the long-run, central bank advisor Fan Gang told Bloomberg News on Monday, describing the yuan as being at a “turning point” after possibly being…
Distressed debt manager China Orient to raise $1.5 bln ahead of IPO-IFR
HONG KONG Jan 9 Distressed debt manager China Orient Asset Management Co Ltd plans to raise about $1.5 billion ahead of a planned initial public offering (IPO) in Hong Kong, IFR reported on Monday, citing…
McDonald’s sells most of China, HK business to CITIC, Carlyle for $2.1-billion
McDonald’s Corp has agreed to sell the bulk of its China and Hong Kong business to state-backed conglomerate CITIC Ltd and Carlyle Group LP for up to $2.1-billion, seeking to expand rapidly without using much…
Nokia is trying to make a smartphone comeback, starting in China
Nokia is launching a comeback — in China. If you are a cell phone user of a certain age, you likely have a soft spot for the Nokia brand. In the late 1990s and most…
Yum China Launches Taco Bell Brand in China
SHANGHAI, Jan. 9, 2017 /PRNewswire/ — Yum China Holdings, Inc. (“Yum China”) (NYSE: YUMC), and Taco Bell Corp., the world’s largest Mexican-inspired restaurant chain, today announced that they have opened the first Taco Bell restaurant…
McDonald's sells China business in deal worth up to $2.1B
HONG KONG – Fast-food giant McDonald’s is selling a controlling stake in its China business to a group of investors led by state-owned Chinese conglomerate Citic in a deal worth up to $2.1 billion, the…
McDonald's gives up control of its China business in $2 billion deal
McDonald’s is selling off most of its China business in a deal worth as much as $2.1 billion. Citic, a massive Chinese financial firm, is taking the majority stake in McDonald’s (MCD) operations in mainland…
McDonald's sells China business in $2.1B deal
HONG KONG – Fast food giant McDonald’s says it is selling a controlling stake in its China business to a group of investors led by state-owned Chinese conglomerate Citic in a deal worth up to…
China Mobile Hong Kong 4G Data Roaming Coverage Ranks No.1 in Hong Kong
HONG KONG, Jan. 9, 2017 /PRNewswire/ — China Mobile Hong Kong (“CMHK” or “the Company”) today announced that the Company has ranked first* in the number of 4G data roaming coverage destinations among all the…
China's poorest reliant on coal to stay warm, adding to smog
Last week, the official Xinhua News Agency quoted a Beijing official saying coal-burning furnaces for heating have now been completely removed from the city’s urban districts. But in rural Qian’an, 220 kilometres (140 miles) from…
Cruz meets with Taiwanese president, blasts China
Texas Sen. Ted Cruz scolded China for trying to quash his meeting with the Taiwanese president on Sunday, the second time in just over a month a prominent Republican has publicly poked the People’s Republic…
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