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China Digest, October 6, 2012

6 Oct 2012

BEIJING

The cultural revelation

10:26AM

Beijing readies new push to send state media firms public

5 Oct 2012

Beijing is honing an ambitious strategy that will clear a path for the media industry to list on the stock market.

7:00PM

China Digest

28 Aug 2012

GUANGDONG

Luxury spending falls

3:31AM

Alarm bells sound over local government stimulus plans

24 Aug 2012

If the mainland's economic growth rate slumps this year, it won't be because local government officials failed to come up with ambitious stimulus plans.

3:44AM

Housing affordability ratio alarming for Hong Kong, Guangzhou, Shanghai

22 Aug 2012

Despite the introduction over the past two years of measures to cool house prices on the mainland and in Hong Kong only minor price corrections have been witnessed in many cities.

In Hong...

2:22AM

Soho China to turn new strategic corner

17 Aug 2012

Soho China, a Beijing-based commercial property developer, announced yesterday that it was altering its strategy to become more of a landlord and less of a sales-driven real estate developer in...

11:12AM

Opinion

Ferry companies shouldn't be subsidised while they burn dirty fuel

2:53AM

Shirley Yam

What were our top officials doing to let HKMEx fail?

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3:37AM

It's either boom or bust for Qianhai investors

Will Qianhai become the "Manhattan of the Pearl River Delta", or will it become just another property project like countless others in southern China? That's the million-dollar question that many...

2:58AM

Bo Xilai and his white elephants

Liao Bigang long dreamed of moving out of his 700 yuan (HK$858) a month shack in one of the slums of inner Chongqing.

11:15PM

Gulf opens between residents and official media over floods

The news footage on Beijing Television showing Beijing party secretary Guo Jinlong having instant noodles at an emergency meeting over the deadly July 21 flood in the early hours of the following...

10:35PM

Shanghai land sale flies in face of cabinet warning

A residential site in Shanghai sold at auction for 1.64 billion yuan (HK$2.01 billion) after a fierce bidding among 11 developers, despite a State Council warning of possible tightening in...

2:43PM

Planning is key to cope with disaster

The once-in-a-lifetime downpour that deluged Beijing at the weekend was bound to be compared with Typhoon Vicente, the worst storm to hit Hong Kong in 13 years.

10:24PM

Severe flooding brings traffic chaos to Tianjin

Heavy rain that hit Tianjin yesterday unleashed severe flooding and paralysed traffic, although there were no reports of fatalities. Unlike in Beijing, residents said they had received government...

10:21PM