Corporate Governance

Dimon clings to JPMorgan chairman title - after fight

22 May 2013

Jamie Dimon, chairman and chief executive of JPMorgan Chase, took an unusual step to fight off investors seeking more oversight of his activities - he hinted he might quit.

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Ping An, Jahwa end dispute as chairman Ge Wenyao stays in job

17 May 2013

The high-profile fight between Shanghai Jahwa United's management and its major shareholder, Ping An Insurance, ended happily yesterday, with a mouthpiece of the Chinese communist party calling on...

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Siblings of Tom Lee music firm cry foul over digitised accounts

10 May 2013

John Lee King-cheung and sister Susan Lee So-fong, directors of Tom Lee Music Company and five other family-run companies, asked the Court of First Instance yesterday to order younger brother...

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Pressure builds to split JPMorgan top roles

8 May 2013

A leading shareholder advisory group Tuesday urged JPMorgan Chase investors to end chief executive Jamie Dimon’s tenure as chairman and fire a majority of the company’s board after a US$6.2...

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Companies 'cook the books to meet tough targets’:survey

7 May 2013

Hard-pressed company bosses across much of the world are under so much pressure to deliver on growth that many have resorted to cooking the books, Ernst & Young says in its latest Fraud Survey...

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Investors may lobby JPMorgan to clip Dimon’s wings if vote fails

6 May 2013

JPMorgan Chase’s Jamie Dimon may be losing ground in his fight to keep the title of chairman, as some major investors push for more oversight of the chief executive after the “London whale”...

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Opinion

Attempts to diversify China's reserves have been a disaster

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Howard Winn

China is like the EU; provinces are its member states

5:26AM

Crazy thinking will damage MTR further down the line

The idea that fare increases should be denied if services are not up to a standard deemed satisfactory by some nebulous panel is alien to any rational concept of how a public service corporation...

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Suspended Pearl Oriental Oil in boardroom shake-up

The company's deputy chairman and executive director, Lew Mon-hung, a former ally of Hong Kong's chief executive, Leung Chun-ying, who was arrested by the Independent Commission Against Corruption...

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Women still only a small minority in Hong Kong's boardrooms

Only three more women were appointed as directors at 50 leading companies in the past 12 months and fewer than one in 10 board directorships at the top companies are held by women, according to...

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SFC looking at third way to settle cases

With the media reporting settlements worth billions of dollars for manipulating the London interbank lending rate and numerous convictions for rogue trading, market misconduct and insider dealing...

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MANAGEMENT

New order at the top of Toyota

Toyota Motor president Akio Toyoda overhauled his top management for the second consecutive year, strengthening his control over the world's largest carmaker to vie with General Motors and...

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UNITED STATES

Disney investors threaten to revolt over chief executives pay

A revolution is brewing in the tree-lined streets of Walt Disney's Magic Kingdom, as shareholders prepare to fight the creeping power and rising rewards of the chairman and chief executive, Bob...

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