Mainland China

Beijing cuts through with action on financial reforms

8 May 2013

The State Council meeting chaired by Premier Li Keqiang on Monday outlined the specifics of Beijing's goals by laying down that clear timetables have to be set for reforms, in a move that analysts...

5:58AM

China tightens rules for local government debt sales

8 May 2013

The financing companies, set up by local governments to fund projects, would undergo extra scrutiny if their debt-asset ratio exceeded 65 per cent and the debt to be issued was rated below AA-plus...

5:41AM

SMEs power new wave of European investment in China

8 May 2013

"We are looking for losers." So went the slogan for a campaign launched by Dutchman Oscar Venhuis and his French partner to promote their new online marketing firm Weblaa late last year.

5:37AM

Strict checks fail to deter IPOs

1 Apr 2013

An attempt by China's securities regulator to slow the so-called quake lake of listing applications on the mainland may turn out to have been a botched strategy, with fewer than expected companies...

4:11AM

Mainland China medical firms to check pulse of market appetite

18 Mar 2013

Two mainland medical firms are seeking to list on the Hong Kong stock market, as the nation embarks on a reform of its troubled public health-care system.

7:42AM

Jockey Club targets growth of mainland China elite membership

4 Mar 2013

The 128-year-old club, which has 23,000 members in Hong Kong, has traditionally been regarded as an elite club for business heavyweights in the city, who use the clubhouse facilities in Happy...

4:40AM

Opinion

Michael Cox

The last straw for Terry Wong?

2:53PM

Jake Van Der Kamp

iBonds are little help in easing inflation and a bad bet financially

3:55AM

Taiwan elite see red over growing popularity of 'inland' term

The growing use among Taiwanese of the term "inland", or neidi, to refer to the mainland has irritated the island's authorities, who say it suggests a diminished standing for Taiwan.

6:10AM

Will James Bond bow to Beijing's censorship?

Will James Bond decide that discretion is the better part of valour and kowtow to the Chinese government to avoid endangering Skyfall’s potentially huge box office in the Communist nation?

11:14PM

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Frank Hsieh of Taiwan's opposition DPP announces mainland China visit

Taiwan's former premier Frank Hsieh Chang-ting yesterday announced a planned trip that would make him the most senior politician from the island's Beijing-sceptic opposition party to visit the...

5:13AM

Should Hong Kong now curb the number of mainland Chinese visitors it lets in?

Anger continues to increase among Hong Kong people towards the rising number of mainland visitors coming to the city each day. The latest crackdown on parallel trading has fuelled further...

8:03AM

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Anger at mainland visitors escalates with 'locust' ad

A row between Hongkongers and mainlanders is reaching boiling point after internet users raised more than HK$100,000 in less than a week to finance a full-page 'anti-locust' advertisement in a...

6:24AM

Its own worst enemy

'We have to have tougher standards on what they import into this country,' declared US presidential candidate Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton at a recent pre-election debate hosted by American...

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