China average housing prices fall for third straight month
China's average housing prices fell in July for the third consecutive month, with the decline picking up pace, indicating that the prospects for the housing sector remain grim.Property developers are...
View ArticleAlibaba hires Google's Penner as investor relations head
Alibaba Group said Thursday that it hired Google Inc. veteran Jane Penner as the head of its investor-relations operations.The move comes as Alibaba prepares for its much-hyped stock market debut in...
View ArticleChina PMI beats expectations in July
China’s official manufacturing purchasing managers' index (PMI) for July has risen to 51.7 from 51 a month earlier. The official figure confirms the recovery reflected in the HSBC flash PMI last week...
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How China can help unlock Australia's final food frontier
EconomyChinaAdrian HearnChinese President Xi Jinping has just returned from his second state visit to Latin America, having achieved what no other leader could. His dash through Argentina, Brazil,...
View ArticleChina non-manufacturing PMI falls
China's official non-manufacturing purchasing managers' index fell to 54.2 in July from 55.0 in June, data from the China Federation of Logistics and Purchasing showed. The subindex for services fell...
View ArticleWhy Beijing is working towards jobs data transparency
EconomyChinaPeter CaiChinese Premier Li Keqiang's decision to release the urban unemployment rate collected by the National Bureau of Statistics using internationally acceptable methods is a step...
View ArticleEdelman says it doesn't know whereabouts of its China chief
International public relations firm Edelman said it didn't know the whereabouts of its China chief, a week after saying he had been helping authorities with an investigation into one of its...
View ArticleBanks angling for China IPO hired a CEO's daughter
Over nearly four years, banks courted China's Tianhe Chemicals Group, hoping to get a piece of the company's expected initial public offering.During that time, three of those banks hired Joyce Wei, the...
View ArticleSouthwest China quake kills at least 367
A strong earthquake in southern China's Yunnan province toppled thousands of homes on Sunday, killing at least 367 people and injuring more than 1,800.About 12,000 homes collapsed in Ludian, a densely...
View ArticleChina plant blast dead reaches 69
The death toll from an explosion at a Taiwan-invested car parts factory in China has reached 69.The blast on Saturday in a wheel hub polishing workshop at the Zhongrong Metal Products Co. in Kunshan,...
View ArticleAlmost 100 dead in Xinjiang attacks last week
Chinese state media released a detailed casualty count Sunday for last week's violence in the western province of Xinjiang, with 37 people and 59 attackers killed in the deadliest unrest in months that...
View ArticleChina bars Symantec, Kaspersky anti-virus software from approved vendors list
China has excluded US-based Symantec and Russia's Kaspersky Lab from a security software supplier list, according to Chinese state media reports.The five remaining anti-virus software providers on the...
View ArticleHow domestic politics shapes Chinese foreign policy
EconomyChinaYizhe Daniel XieEast Asia ForumThe experience that Chinese leaders gain in domestic politics has a big impact on how they view and handle international issues. Many China watchers and...
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Pizza Express just a tiny slice of China’s investment abroad
EconomyChinaJohn WeeksThe ConversationIn what might be termed “fusion finance”, a Chinese private equity company, Hony Capital, has purchased UK restaurant chain Pizza Express for £900m last month.This...
View ArticleChina using antimonopoly law to pressure foreign businesses
China is using its six-year-old antimonopoly law to put foreign businesses under increasing pressure, a development that experts say will intensify as Beijing seeks greater sway over the prices paid by...
View ArticleMcDonald's hopes to bring burger back to China soon
McDonald's Corp. hopes within a week to put burgers and McNuggets back on the menu in many of its China stores, two weeks after it cut ties with a Shanghai supplier that allegedly sold the chain...
View ArticleRain hampers rescue efforts in China's quake-stricken Yunnan province
Rescuers in southwest China raced against time and the threat of storms to reach survivors after a Sunday earthquake killed at least 398 people and injured 1,800 more.The rescuers, in a mountainous...
View ArticleHSBC China services PMI hits lowest point since 2005
The HSBC China Services Business Activity Index dropped to its lowest point since the series began in July.The index printed at 50.0 in the month, a sharp drop from a fifteen-month high of 53.1 in...
View ArticleChina raids Mercedes office
Chinese anti-trust officials have raided German car giant Mercedes Benz’s office in Shanghai, according to local media reports.Anti-trust investigators from the National Development and Reform...
View ArticleRussia, China and the risk of 'salami tactics'
EconomyChinaMatthew HillThe MH-17 tragedy and Moscow's behaviour in Ukraine underscore the risks of the strategies revisionist powers are deploying to subvert the status quo from Eastern Europe to the...
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