Commerce

Milk traders able to skirt checks at border town

3 Mar 2013

Traders of contraband milk formula are shifting their operations to a historic street in the border town of Sha Tau Kok, which lets them skirt tighter checks on parallel exports that began on...

CRCC charges ahead in foreign lands

3 Aug 2012

China Railway Construction, one of the world's top 500 companies, will be hoping not to kick an own goal following its involvement in Italian soccer club Inter Milan.

Sotheby's sues mainlander for failing to pay for art

17 Jul 2012

Sotheby's is suing a mainland man for more than HK$27 million over Chinese paintings and scrolls that it says he bought in an April auction in Hong Kong but never paid for.

Queries raised over bid for LME

5 Jun 2012

Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing wants to buy the London Metal Exchange in order to diversify its business, but analysts question how the acquisition will really help the city develop its own...

A humble bowl's brush with history

5 Apr 2012

A small, plain bowl from the 12th century sold for a record HK$208 million - three times its pre-sale estimate - as Sotheby's five-day spring auction concluded yesterday in Hong Kong.

Opinion

Wang Xiangwei

Super ministries may not be the right answer for mainland China

Alex Lo

Church developers remain unbowed by government rules

George Chen

A house is not a home until it becomes affordable

Dealers seeing red over false bidding

When the hammer came down on an abstract painting by Zao Wou-ki at a Sotheby's Hong Kong sale in October, the HK$69 million bid set a new auction record for the Chinese-French artist.

That's your lot

Paul Dunn remembers the first wine auction he attended, in 2008. He had only recently decided to start collecting, and was eager to acquire bottles quickly.

Shoe firms win fight over EU anti-dumping duties

A landmark ruling by the European Court of Justice is expected to result in lower anti-dumping duties on Chinese goods exported to the EU.

Betting big in art's hard times

The economic outlook may be grim and the world art market on a rocky ride, but auctioneers in Hong Kong are undeterred - they have launched a series of sales with blockbuster names that they hope...

China slams US probe on solar products dumping

China has contested a United States decision to launch anti-dumping and countervailing duty investigations on Chinese-made solar power panels.

Going once

As the president of Christie's Asia and one of the world's foremost auctioneers, Francois Curiel is well aware of the importance of timing. 'An auctioneer has to be fair to the buyer and the...