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But retailers are making a host of mistakes, China experts warn, from confusing Gen Z with millennials to missing the current mania for limited-edition luxury to picking the wrong celebrity endorsements. Too many brands are…
Top 100 Global Brands: China Continues Stellar Growth in Latest Rankings
Over the past 12 years, China’s overall brand value has grown 1,444%. Millward Brown has released its latest BrandZ ranking for 2018. And while Google and Apple hold on to the two top spots, Amazon…
China’s central bank chief tamps down expectations of liberalising country’s financial industry
The People’s Bank of China Governor Yi Gang, two months after stepping into the shoes of the country’s longest-serving central bank chief, has sought to play down the expectations of a financial industry hankering for…
China’s Ant Financial raises $10 billion at $150 billion valuation: Sources
Ant Financial has raised $10 billion from a clutch of global and local investors, five people with direct knowledge of the matter told Reuters. The amount and investor line-up are finalized and the transfer of…
In Portugal, trust in China is the art of the deal
LISBON (Reuters) – Utility company EDP may balk at the meager 5 percent premium offered for its shares by China Three Gorges (CT) but the battle for Portugal’s biggest business has largely played out already.…
Beijing’s liaison office free to do its own thing, Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam says after ownership of leading publisher revealed
Chief Executive Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor said on Tuesday that the work of Beijing’s liaison office in Hong Kong should not be interfered with as long as it is law-abiding, after a former head of…
The Big Mistakes Luxury Brands Are Making With China’s Gen Z
But retailers are making a host of mistakes, China experts warn, from confusing Gen Z with millennials to missing the current mania for limited-edition luxury to picking the wrong celebrity endorsements. Too many brands are…
In China’s booming tech scene, women battle sexism and conservative values
The owner of the news aggregator Jinri Toutiao, a tech darling valued at over $20 billion, this month co-hosted a beauty pageant for female business reporters that attracted little attention. The company did not respond…
China’s May manufacturing growth seen dipping only marginally
That would mark the 22 straight month of expansion for China’s manufacturing sector, and reinforce consensus views that the economy will slow only modestly this year, good news for policymakers as they try to navigate…
China anger over US ‘provocation’ in South China Sea
… what it called “provocation” after US warships sailed near South China Sea islands claimed by Beijing. US officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, told the Reuters news agency that two military vessels came within…
Earthquake shakes northeast China, but no apparent damage
The official Xinhua News Agency said the area’s power supply was unaffected, but some mobile phone communications were disrupted. A 1976 earthquake centred in the northeastern city of Tangshan killed at least 250,000 people. China’s…
U.S. and China Clash Over ‘Technology Transfer’ at WTO
GENEVA — Chinese and U.S. envoys sparred at the World Trade Organization on Monday over U.S. President Donald Trump’s claims that China steals American ideas, the subject of two lawsuits and a White House plan…
