Speaking this week at a financial forum in Shanghai, Mr Zhou called for a greater role for foreign competition in China’s financial sector and warned that “protectionism leads to laziness” – a message consistent with…
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Big China companies targeted over ‘systemic risk’
In an email seen by the Financial Times, a risk management executive at Industrial and Commercial Bank of China instructed colleagues to gather information on credit exposures to the four companies. The companies are affiliated…
China confronts its Lehman moment
China’s leaders are often praised for their steady management of the economy. But it is increasingly clear that they are haunted by the specter of a Lehman-style financial collapse. The focus of the reviews, according…
Financial assets made in China
FROM shoes to shirts and phones to fridges, made-in-China goods have blanketed the globe over the past three decades, entering every country and just about every home. But one kind of Chinese good few abroad…
China bans video and audio streaming on Sina Weibo and two other websites
The Financial Times points out that Sina Weibo invested in a video streaming site last November and counts on live stream advertisements to make money. Still, it faces government scrutiny, just like other platforms operating…
Two decades after handover, scant love for China among Hong Kong youth
HONG KONG Hong Kong student activist Chau Ho-oi, born in the year the Asian financial hub returned to Chinese rule 20 years ago, recalls the sense of pride she once felt toward mainland China. Sitting…
China landslide: 15 dead, over 100 missing in Sichuan
Roads in the county were closed on Saturday to all traffic except emergency services, the news agency said. Media captionBBC Weather’s Helen Willetts looks at the forecast for southern China after the recent devastating landslides.…
15 bodies found after landslide buries scores in China
Crews searching through the rubble left by a landslide that buried a mountain village under tonnes of soil and rocks in southwestern China on Saturday found 15 bodies, but about 100 more people remained missing.…
Massive landslide buries more than 120 people in southwest China
… huge rocks and a mass of earth to come crashing into homes in a mountain village in southwestern China early Saturday, officials said. The Xinhua News Agency reports 15 people have been found dead…
Landslide in China buries at least 120 people
Wang was referring to China’s deadliest earthquake this century … Provincial police sent 500 rescuers with two dozen sniffer dogs to the site, the official Xinhua News Agency reported. ( read original story …)
Massive landslide in southwest China buries 120 people
Wang was referring to China’s deadliest earthquake this century … Provincial police sent 500 rescuers with two dozen sniffer dogs to the site, the official Xinhua News Agency reported. ( read original story …)
Buried alive: More than 100 people feared dead in China landslide
UPDATE: Rescuers have pulled 15 bodies from a massive landslide in China as the search continues for more than 100 others still trapped. RESCUERS have pulled 15 bodies from a massive landslide in China as…
China landslide leaves 120 missing in Sichuan
Roads in the county were closed on Saturday to all traffic except emergency services, the news agency said. Media captionBBC Weather’s Helen Willetts looks at the forecast for southern China after the recent devastating landslides.…
