A new wave of initial public offerings (IPOs) by mainland Chinese financial technology (fintech) companies is taking shape as dozens of unprofitable technology start-ups rush to raise funds overseas amid tightened regulations at home. The…
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N Korea nuclear crisis: China border town unruffled
Dandong is a good place to ponder China’s role in the North Korean nuclear crisis. First off, no-one’s that bothered. In a city of more than 800,000 people, living almost within touching distance of North…
North Korea’s Nuclear Arsenal Threatens China’s Path to Power
China has made little secret of its long-term goal to replace … Ms. Park’s aides were unable to arrange the call, according to local news reports. Chinese analysts said Mr. Xi was unwilling to accept…
How much leverage does China have over North Korea?
The People’s Republic of China, a country averse to binding, treaty-based commitments, has always enjoyed a particular relationship with its small, north-eastern neighbour. North Korea is the only country with which China has a legally…
What Travel Brands Can Learn from Alibaba’s New Luxury Marketplace
Luxury brands have previously been vastly underrepresented on China’s main e-tailers such as Alibaba’s T mall and JD.com. According to L2’s recent report Luxury China, 100 percent of consumer goods brands have an official presence…
Aramco Looks To China Ahead Of IPO
Saudi Arabia is getting ready to list 5 percent of its crown jewel—state oil firm Aramco—in what could be the biggest IPO ever. The Saudis claim that the whole company is worth US$2 trillion, while…
China’s Xi wants to put relations with India on ‘right track’: Xinhua
XIAMEN, China (Reuters) – China wants to put its relationship with India on the “right track”, President Xi Jinping told Prime Minister Narendra Modi at a meeting in Xiamen, the official Xinhua news agency reported…
China seeks to silence critics at U.N. forums: rights body report
In a report released on Tuesday, the group said China restricts travel of activists, or photographs or films them if they do come to the U.N. in Geneva to cooperate with human rights watchdogs scrutinizing…
Taiwan appoints new premier amid tense China relations
“No matter what Lai talks about, he still supports Taiwan independence, so mainland China won’t give him much face,” Huang said. The Tainan city news department director declined to answer a question Tuesday about whether…
BRIEF-China Aoyuan Property Group posts August contracted sales of about RMB2,655 million in total
Sept 5 (Reuters) – China Aoyuan Property Group Ltd : * August 2017, group achieved unaudited contracted sales of approximately RMB2,655 million in total Source text for Eikon: Further company coverage: Our Standards:The Thomson Reuters…
China hits booming cryptocurrency market with coin fundraising ban
China on Monday banned and deemed illegal the practice of raising … “The initial coin offering is a new business model leveraging blockchain technology and it will remain,” he said. “This is not the end…
Here’s why China’s crypto crackdown is ‘bigger than most people think’
Adam Efrima, the operations director of trading platform eToro in China, described the ruling as a “huge deal,” saying: “It’s bigger than most people think it is.” Efrima, who first alerted Business Insider to the…
VW recalls 1.8 million cars in China
These are external links and will open in a new window More than 1.8 million Volkswagen cars are being recalled in China because of a faulty fuel pump. China’s consumer watchdog said the recall affected…