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Rights groups urge no censored Google search for China
BEIJING — More than a dozen human rights groups have sent a letter to Google urging the company not to offer censored internet search in China, amid reports it is planning to again provide the…
Garlic and the ‘dirty secret’ of China’s prisons
Prison labour is common and legal in China. And the “Financial Times” traced at least 55 prison companies around the country. But exporting goods made by prison labour is against China’s own laws. And ……
The ‘dirty secret’ of China’s prisons
Prison labour is common and legal in China. And the “Financial Times” traced at least 55 prison companies around the country. But exporting goods made by prison labour is against China’s own laws. And ……
China Crackdown: After Beijing, Guangzhou Hub Bans Cryptocurrency Events
Operators using terms like “financial innovation” or “blockchain … The post China Crackdown: After Beijing, Guangzhou Hub Bans Cryptocurrency Events appeared first on CCN. ( read original story …)
Beijing’s Banking Overhaul
The Chinese central bank is quietly considering a change that says a great deal about the progress and perils of China’s broader reform project. According to Caixin, Beijing may abolish the nine regio… ( read…
Don’t Pop the Corks for China’s Big Banks
At first glance, investors in China’s big banks should be breaking out the champagne. Tighter liquidity has boosted margins at three of the big four, with a crackdown on shadow banking forcing borrowe… ( read…
China’s Big Banks Benefit From Better Margins as Slowdown Looms
Read: China Banks Bad Loans Surge Most on Record Amid Deleveraging The crackdown saw the banking sector’s bad debt surge by a record in the second quarter, 80 percent of which came from small rural…
China’s Himin Solar chief confronts local government over debt
China’s Himin Solar was flying high a decade ago as the … how large Chinese groups can struggle to adapt to their fast-changing domestic market. As the financial strains tighten, Himin’s founder Hua… ( read…
China’s AgBank, BoC post higher profits as margins improve
BEIJING (Reuters) – Agricultural Bank of China Ltd (AgBank) and Bank of China Ltd (BoC), the country’s third- and fourth-largest lenders, reported higher profits for the first half of the year as marg… ( read…
Three tonnes of mouldy cash show why China is taking action against Huarong’s debt burden
On a spring morning on a Tuesday in mid-April, Lai Xiaomin was invited to attend a meeting by China’s newly merged banking and insurance regulator on Finance Street in the nation’s capital. As soon as…
China banking sector’s assets up 7.5%
A teller counts banknotes at an outlet of Harbin Bank. [Photo by Yu Kun/China News Service] BEIJING – Chinese banks held 254.3 trillion yuan ($37 trillion) in assets as of the end of July, according…
Yuan hits four-week high as China signals support, revives X-factor for fixing
SHANGHAI (Reuters) – China’s yuan finished Monday afternoon trade at a near 4-week high to the dollar after the central bank revived a “counter-cyclical factor” in its daily fixing to support the curr… ( read…
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