Some 2,300 companies have raised US$582 billion via Hong Kong IPOs since the 1997 handover through May 2022, according to Refinitiv data Hong Kong can still grease the IPO wheel to accommodate the …
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China’s Tech Giants Lost Their Swagger and May Never Get It Back
Fear and paranoia now cow a once-proud $1 trillion internet industry. Even if Beijing relents, the sector is a shadow of its former self.
Chinese podcast group fails to launch $100mn IPO in blow to Hong Kong
Chinese podcasting platform Ximalaya has suspended plans for a Hong Kong listing after its attempt to raise up to $100mn was rebuffed by investors, who remain wary after Beijing launched a crackdown …
China stock markets cool down, with fewer biotech IPOs in H1 2022
A tightening of rules for biotech listings on the Shanghai STAR Market may have contributed to a visible cool-down in biotech IPOs, with fewer listings in Chinese stock markets in the first half of …
China’s Quest for Iron
Guinea’s Simandou mountains hold the largest untapped iron-ore deposit on the planet. Now a consortium of China-connected companies is moving ahead with a plan that jeopardizes one of the most …
Sanctioned Russia Becomes China’s Main Source of Oil, Customs Data Show
Chinese purchases help offset losses from Western nations scaling back Russian energy purchases over invasion of Ukraine …
Govt puts decision to allow China solar imports on hold
The government has kept on hold for at least a year its decision to grant foreign manufacturers, including those from China , permission to feature in the approved list of solar photovoltaic (PV) …
These major Western businesses are abandoning China
Stanley Black & Decker had planned to open its brand new 425,000-square-foot, $90 million factory in Fort Worth, Texas by the end of 2020, although it was delayed until 2021. Dell As relations between …
ClouDr Suffers Chronic Losses but Still Set for High-Value Health IPO
ClouDr’s big investments in marketing and R&D have turned rapidly growing revenues into mounting losses Although far from profitable, the company …
China says that Bitcoin will go to zero amid a bear market
A South China Morning Post report on June 22 said that a Chinese state media had published a warning over cryptocurrency investments.
Arm IPO could be blocked by UK on national security grounds
The UK government is reportedly hinting it may use national security laws to force Arm to hold its IPO on the London markets instead of in the US.
Carbon emissions in China are lower than during Covid pandemic after successive lockdowns
China’s emissions are lower than they were throughout 2021 … said Halff. One of the US’ largest export plants, Freeport LNG, shut down for at least three weeks following an explosion at its Texas …
China’s exports to India rose by 45.51% in 2021-’22 despite border tensions, shows data
Despite the border tensions between Beijing and New Delhi, exports from China to India rose by 45.51% in 2021-’22, data from the Ministry of Commerce and Industry showed. Notably, India’s exports to …
