A man investigating working conditions at a Chinese company that produces Ivanka Trump-brand shoes has been arrested and two others are missing, the arrested man’s wife and an advocacy group said Tuesday. Hua Haifeng was…
Monthly Archives For May 2017
China Messaging App Lures Luxury Brands — WSJ
HONG KONG — China’s Tencent Holdings Ltd. is using its vast social-media network to attract luxury-fashion brands to its WeChat app, potentially opening a new frontier in online retail. France’s Longchamp and the U.K.’s Burberry…
Ex-UBS Banker’s Parents Bought Into China IPOs He Helped Arrange
UBS said to have reported one instance to Hong Kong regulator Choi left UBS in 2016, now runs boutique advisory firm AMTD A former UBS Group AG investment banker was linked to several Hong Kong…
Property buyers hit a brick wall as Beijing tries to avert housing bubble
For almost two decades, China’s property market was a one-way bet. As urban residents made the move from state housing to privately owned flats from 1998, there were big profits to be made. Before that…
Men probing Ivanka Trump brands in China arrested, go missing: watchdog
SHANGHAI — A man investigating working conditions at a Chinese company that produces Ivanka Trump-brand shoes has been arrested and two others are missing, the arrested man’s wife and an advocacy group said Tuesday. Hua…
China-built railway biggest Kenya project since independence
Kenya’s president on Tuesday opened the country’s largest infrastructure project since independence, a Chinese-backed railway costing nearly $3.3 billion that eventually will link a large part of East Africa to a major port on the…
Japan urges China to pressure North Korea
Japan on Tuesday urged China to exert greater pressure on North Korea to stop its nuclear and missile development, saying Beijing’s role in getting Pyongyang to abandon those efforts was “crucially important.” Japanese Foreign Minister…
China Tower invites banks to pitch for role in up to $10 billion HK IPO
HONG KONG: China Tower Corp, which owns and manages the mobile phone towers for China’s three state-owned telecom operators, has invited investment banks to pitch for a role in a Hong Kong IPO worth up…
Japan urges China to do more to pressure North Korea
Japan has urged China to do more to influence North Korea to help pressure the country to stop its nuclear and missile development. Japanese Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida says that during talks in Tokyo on…
China is behaving like a ‘bully’ in South China Sea: McCain
In a speech in Sydney, McCain said China was asserting itself globally, best illustrated by militarizing artificial islands in the South China Sea, a claim repeatedly rejected by Beijing. “I think it is very clear…
Donald Trump says North Korea missile launch a ‘great disrespect’ to China
US President Donald Trump says North Korea showed “great disrespect” to its major ally China by “shooting off yet another ballistic missile”. Early on Monday morning, North Korea launched a short-range ballistic missile that flew…
A crackdown on China’s £7.3 trillion ‘shadow banking’ industry is rattling markets
Shadow banking is broadly defined as financial activities such as lending which are conducted in unregulated conditions, and it’s a massive deal in China: Business expanded to around £7.33 trillion ($9.4 trillion) a year in…
China’s News Websites Face Harsh Discipline
Chinese netizens will soon have nothing but government-allowed content to read and watch, and that’s not an exaggeration. The Chinese government is conducting the most serious crackdown so far on China’s five biggest non-government news…