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Henan Chuying to grow organic pork business

21 Mar 2011

Mainland poultry and livestock firm Henan Chuying Agro-Pastoral plans to spend four billion yuan (HK$4.74 billion) to set up a 400,000-hectare organic pig farm in Henan province.

Rights issue targets China's 10m new homes

19 Mar 2011

China State Construction International Holdings plans to raise at least HK$3.58 billion through a rights issue to build more infrastructure projects on the mainland, the firm announced yesterday...

Plan to raise listing threshold on banks

16 Mar 2011

Beijing plans to raise the listing threshold for the mainland's 143 city commercial banks, a move to bar most of them from floating initial public offering shares.

Hilong Holdings eyes HK$1.48b IPO to expand

11 Mar 2011

Hilong Holding, China's largest supplier of oil and gas drill pipes, plans to raise up to HK$1.48 billion in a Hong Kong initial public offering to expand production and service capacity and...

Debt-ridden Sunac 'scraps bond sale'

9 Mar 2011

Sunac China Holdings, an indebted mainland property developer whose chairman has a checkered past, has cancelled a planned bond sale, two sources involved in the transaction said.

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Fugitive CEO arrested in Guizhou

China Forestry Holdings says its former chief executive, Li Hanchun, was arrested last week in Guizhou province for allegedly embezzling 30 million yuan (HK$35.5 million).

Everbright Bank pushes plan to sell H shares

China Everbright Bank plans to list in Hong Kong, raising as much as HK$47 billion and setting the trend for many other smaller banks in need of capital.

Official media court investors in the quest for internet influence

The websites of the mainland's three main official media - People's Daily, Xinhua and China Central Television - are accelerating on the road to the stock market in an effort to better compete...

Wharf stock edges up despite dilution fear

Shares of Wharf (Holdings) edged up yesterday despite Thursday's announcement of a potential HK$10.05 billion rights issue that could hurt earnings per share.

Shaw Brothers' stake in TVB fetched HK$6.26b

An investor group led by local dealmaker Charles Chan Kwok-keung paid HK$6.26 billion for Shaw Brothers' stake in Television Broadcasts (TVB) last Wednesday, according to the Hong Kong Exchanges...

How the elderly tycoon found out he was poor, and what he did about it

When the phone rang in the South China Morning Post's Causeway Bay newsroom on the morning of January 7, the caller made an offer that no journalist could refuse: would you like an exclusive...