The football world continues to mourn the tragic death of former Newcastle United midfielder Cheick Tiote. The Ivory Coast international collapsed suddenly and suffered a heart attack during a training session with Chinese club Beijing…
Monthly Archives For June 2017
Global And China Mobile Data Protection Solutions Market Research Report 2017
The Global And China Mobile Data Protection Solutions Industry 2017 Market Research Report is a professional and in-depth study on the current state of the Mobile Data Protection Solutions industry. Firstly, the report provides a…
Most valuable brands: 9 American and 1 from China
China now has one of the world’s most valuable brands. Shenzhen-based tech firm Tencent has broken into a ranking of the top 10 most valuable brands published by BrandZ. The annual ranking is typically dominated…
China’s economy is becoming more like America’s — and not in a good way
China’s three-decade economic boom, marked by gravity-defying double-digit growth rates, has been accompanied by a sharp increase in income inequality, according to a new study from French economist Thomas Piketty. “China’s inequality levels used to…
China just went full-on Big Brother on its credit card system
The banks will report that data to the State Administration of Foreign Exchange (SAFE) daily. This a reminder that, though China has been quiet, all is not well. Officials are doing this because downward pressure…
U.S. to China: Free men who probed shoemaker for Ivanka Trump
WASHINGTON — The State Department called Monday for the immediate release of three labour activists who investigated a Chinese company that produced Ivanka Trump shoes in China. The Associated Press reported that the men were…
China must rein in rapid growth in local govt debt — economist
BEIJING: China must rein in rapid build-up in local government debt and should implement reforms at the local level to raise transparency and let market forces play a bigger role, an influential government economist said…
China’s flexible in how it deals with yuan value
Will China ever float its yuan? Officially, there is no peg to the US dollar. However, the People’s Bank of China (PBOC) maintains the value of the yuan within a certain upper and lower limit…
China plans to halt issuing new electric vehicle permits, sources say
China plans to halt issuing permits to produce electric vehicles because of concern additional approvals may lead to a glut in the world’s biggest auto market, according to people with knowledge of the matter. The…
China Everbright’s arm plans to raise second dollar property fund
HONG KONG China Everbright Limited’s (0165.HK) real estate private equity arm plans to raise its first China-focused dollar fund in seven years to tap rising demand from foreign investors for assets in the world’s second…
Three giant pandas return to China from Japan
The official Xinhua News Agency said the three were travelling Tuesday to the … The program has led to the births of 15 pandas, eight of whom have now returned to China, according to Xinhua.…
California, China defy U.S. climate retreat with new cleantech tie-up
BEIJING California said it will cooperate with China on clean technology, emissions trading and other “climate-positive” opportunities as it bids to fill the gap left after President Donald Trump pulled the United States out of…
Beijing’s meddling means the yuan may never be a truly global currency
“The [yuan] is rising but will not rule,” wrote Cornell University’s Eswar Prasad in the March edition of the International Monetary Fund’s Finance and Development magazine. Since then, there has been renewed evidence of Beijing’s…
