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China Digest, October 6, 2012

6 Oct 2012

BEIJING

The cultural revelation

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.

China Digest

28 Aug 2012

GUANGDONG

Luxury spending falls

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.

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...

Opinion

Alex Lo

Church developers remain unbowed by government rules

George Chen

A house is not a home until it becomes affordable

Tom Holland

Signs of nightmare scenario in China's latest economic data

Soho China to turn new strategic corner

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...

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...

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.

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...

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...

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.