Sino-Forest Corporation

Ontario watchdog accuses logging bosses of fraud

24 May 2012

The Ontario Securities Commission (OSC) has charged Sino-Forest Corporation and some of its former top executives with fraud involving Hong Kong-listed Greenheart Group.

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Report rejects Sino-Forest fraud claims

16 Nov 2011

A committee tasked to review the books of Sino-Forest, which claims to be China's biggest logging firm, but is accused by a short-seller as a 'near total fraud', has issued a second interim...

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Greenheart shares go in the red

28 Sep 2011

Greenheart Group, the Hong Kong-listed unit of beleaguered logging company Sino-Forest, lost a third of its value yesterday after a trading halt on its shares was lifted and...

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Canadian investors go short on China

15 Sep 2011

In the wake of the Sino-Forest scandal, investors are punishing more Canadian-listed Chinese companies.

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Distant forests hide shady deals

9 Sep 2011

The deeper one looks into Sino-Forest Corp, the Toronto-listed Chinese logging firm that has been engulfed by allegations of fraud, the more questions emerge.

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From triumph to adversity

1 Sep 2011

As recently as June 1 this year, Hong Kong native Allen Chan Tak-yuen was sitting pretty at the helm of Sino-Forest, a mainland timber supplier he founded in 1992 that grew to become the largest...

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Opinion

The 1-2 punch heard around the world

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Wang Xiangwei

Placating graduates a work in progress

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Sino-Forest shares plunge as fraud report delayed

Shares of Sino-Forest Corporation have continued to plummet since Monday after the mainland-based timber supplier said it would delay releasing findings of an internal review. On Monday, the...

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Paulson dumps Sino-Forest at huge loss

John Paulson, the US hedge fund supremo who racked up multibillion-dollar gains in 2007 and 2008 from predicting the subprime mortgage meltdown, has retreated from his investment in Chinese timber...

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Fraud claims pulp Greenheart stock

Shares of Greenheart Group, the Hong Kong-listed subsidiary of embattled mainland timber company Sino-Forest, were dragged down yesterday by fraud allegations against its parent.

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Sino-Forest shares crash after accusation it lied about assets

Shares in Sino-Forest, a mainland timber firm boasting US hedge fund Paulson & Co as its largest investor and former Hutchison Whampoa chief Simon Murray as independent director, have...

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China Grand Forestry plans HK$1.3b share placement

China Grand Forestry Resources, an apparel maker-turned-timber company, hopes to raise as much as HK$1.32 billion from a share placement, according to the term sheet.

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Bond issue to pay for Anhui land

Newly established holding company Mandra Forestry Holdings plans to sell US$235 million worth of high-yield bonds to pay for an acquisition of up to 270,000 hectares of commercial plantations in...

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