NEW DELHI (AP) — As a political crisis plays out in the Maldives, a quiet tug of war is taking place around it, with heavyweights China and India vying for strategic dominance in the picturesque…
Monthly Archives For February 2018
China’s new breed of patriotic hero on the big screen reflects rise of a superpower
It is being hailed as China’s first modern naval film, and bears many similarities in style and substance to Hollywood action epics. “These days there is more and more news in China about the military,…
Alibaba’s Ma hopes Beijing 2022 can be smarter, cheaper, faster
Billionaire Alibaba co-founder Jack Ma foresees an Olympics that is better for fans and athletes and is more economical — and hopes Beijing 2022 will be the pinnacle of that vision. Ma’s e-commerce giant in…
Filipinos protest China’s build up in disputed sea
Protesters demand end to China’s activities in the South China Sea after reports … Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte told a news conference late on Friday that he has no intention of going into war over…
China’s tech push likely to increase trade and security tensions with US and Europe, report reveals
In November, China’s central bank drafted rules to tighten oversight of the country’s US$9 trillion asset-management industry to rein in shadow-banking lending, according to news reports. China’s ban on entrusted loans to set to end…
Xi Jinping’s war on shadow banking spills over, rocking China’s wider financial world
Beijing’s tightening rein on shadow banking activities, under President Xi Jinping’s call to tame risks, is opening a can of worms in the country’s wider financial realm as deals are falling apart and debts remain…
Chinese financial institutions see net FDI inflows in 2017
BEIJING, Feb. 10 (Xinhua) — China’s financial institutions, including banks, insurers and securities firms, saw net investment inflows from overseas investors in 2017, data from the nation’s foreign exchange regulator showed. Foreign direct investment ……
Nanny Who Set Fatal Fire in China Is Sentenced to Death
pic.twitter.com/VE1XxJsP7f — China Plus News (@ChinaPlusNews) Feb. 9, 2018 The father of the children, Lin Shengbin, who was away on a business trip at the time of the fire, attended the sentencing on Friday. On…
China Finance Online Co Limited (NASDAQ:JRJC): Is Tech An Attractive Sector Play?
China Finance Online Co Limited (NASDAQ:JRJC), is a US$51.02M small-cap, which operates in the software industry based in China. In the past decade, mega-tech companies, have built highly successful and ubiquitous platforms and ecosystem in…
Cheniere taps China’s booming natural gas market, signing first-ever US long-term LNG contract
China is the fastest growing market for liquefied natural gas, a super-cooled form of the fuel that allows it to be shipped overseas in liquid form. Earlier this week, the U.S. Energy Information projected LNG…
How soaring U.S. oil exports to China are transforming the global oil game
U.S. oil shipments to China have surged, creating trade between the world’s two biggest powers that until 2016 just did not exist, and helping Washington in its effort to reduce the nation’s huge trade deficit…
Stock market CRASH: ‘Worst day in TWO YEARS’ for China causing PANIC during global rout
valuations on China-consumer related industries and execution risks on deleveraging (more specifically financial deleveraging). “The bet on blue-chips was getting too concentrated, so a big correction was just a matter of time.” Worries over the…
Chinese regulator approves zero IPO applications in past week
BEIJING, Feb. 10 (Xinhua) — China’s securities regulator did not approve a single Initial Public Offering (IPO) application in the past week amid tightening scrutiny. Up to 18 companies have got the green light from…