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1. Business - Property - PROPERTY

   Chongqing presses on with cheap housing

   Posted May 25th 2013, 12:00am by Toh Han Shih

   ... Despite massive fiscal deficit, the city intends to continue to pour billions into the project that was launched by disgraced leader Bo Xilai Follow @SCMP_News Chongqing's ambitious programme of building affordable housing, launched by its disgraced former chief Bo Xilai, has fallen far short of its targets. Yet the city, which is running a massive fiscal deficit, plans ...

   http://www.scmp.com/business/article/1245414/chongqing-presses-cheap-housing
2. Business - Comment - MONITOR

   Bo Xilai story reads like a violent mafia blood feud

   Posted Jan 22nd 2013, 12:00am by Tom Holland

   ... of the same ground. But whereas Anderlini's The Bo Xilai Scandal: Power, Death and Politics in China begins with the poisoning of Heywood - a slightly sad Walter Mitty-like figure - in a shabby ...

   http://www.scmp.com/business/article/1133284/bo-xilai-story-reads-violent-mafia-blood-feud
3. News - Hong Kong

   Chongqing showing Hong Kong it's back in business after Bo scandal

   Posted Apr 10th 2013, 12:00am by George Chen

   ... but equally well known to the world. Investment in the municipality's factories and infrastructure surged and exports doubled. But the murky downfall last year of Bo, in one of the biggest ...

   http://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/1211081/chongqing-showing-hong-kong-its-back-business-after-bo-scandal
4. Business - China Business

   Ranks of billionaires top 300 in China

   Posted Sep 12th 2013, 12:00am by AFP

   ... crackdown in the province. Two others on the list are in prison, while Xu Ming, who joined this year at No 676 with US$490 million, was a key witness against Bo Xilai last month in China's biggest political corruption trial in decades. According to court transcripts, Xu said he gave Bo 21 million yuan (HK$26.4 million) in bribes, including purchasing a villa in the French resort ...

   http://www.scmp.com/business/china-business/article/1308624/ranks-billionaires-top-300-china
5. Business - China Business - CORRUPTION

   Beijing action on CNPC may spur foreign probes

   Posted Aug 31st 2013, 12:00am by Toh Han Shih

   ... official Bo Xilai, which will include Zhou's activities at CNPC. Four executives of the company - Li Hualin, Ran Xinquan, Wang Daofu and Wang Yongchun - are being investigated for breaches ...

   http://www.scmp.com/business/china-business/article/1300824/beijing-action-cnpc-may-spur-foreign-probes
6. Business - China Business - CORRUPTION

   PetroChina hit by US class action law suit for failing to disclose graft probe

   Posted Sep 05th 2013, 12:00am by Toh Han Shih and Eric Ng

   ... Yongkang , former security tsar and ally of fallen leader Bo Xilai . Pomerantz Grossman Hufford Dahlstrom & Gross filed the lawsuit in the court of the Southern District of New York on behalf ...

   http://www.scmp.com/business/china-business/article/1303522/petrochina-hit-us-class-action-law-suit-failing-disclose
7. Business - Comment - MONITOR

   China graft probe looks more like a 'petro purge' than an assault on sleaze

   Posted Sep 04th 2013, 12:00am by Tom Holland

   ... come to be regarded as too powerful altogether by other party bosses. With Bo now well and truly out of the way and in no position to protect his political patron in retirement, China's ...

   http://www.scmp.com/business/article/1302790/china-graft-probe-looks-more-petro-purge-assault-sleaze
8. Business - Property - PROPERTY

   Mainland developers pay price for land acquisitions

   Posted Oct 02nd 2013, 12:00am by Yvonne Liu

   ... measures." Chengdu also recorded steep land prices in recent months. Terence Chong Chak-bo, the managing director of Centaline in Chengdu, said many plots were sold at levels close to current home ...

   http://www.scmp.com/business/article/1322392/mainland-developers-pay-price-land-acquisitions
9. Business - Economy

   Which way for China's bid to join rich nations as demographic time bomb ticks?

   Posted Aug 29th 2013, 12:00am by Kevin Rafferty

   ... President Xi Jinping and his colleagues once they have settled the Bo Xilai affair. As an internationally respected economist with Chinese heritage put it to me: "China has a 15 to 20-year ...

   http://www.scmp.com/business/economy/article/1300223/which-way-china
10. Business - Comment - LAI SEE

    Wison chairman cashes in on company's bonanza results

    Posted Aug 23rd 2013, 12:00am by Howard Winn

    ... to deny an Apple Daily story that the company was linked to Bo Xilai. Despite denying this the stock fell 15 per cent. And then just to add to the intrigue surrounding the company, it announced ...

    http://www.scmp.com/business/article/1298709/wison-chairman-cashes-companys-bonanza-results

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