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Anti-graft drive may prompt SOEs to be prudent

[2015-04-28 07:22]

The anti-corruption campaign supports the Chinese government's goals of economic reform and rebalancing, macroeconomic stability and legal system reform. We expect that it will bring greater accountability and efficiency in the way that major State-owned enterprises are run and that it will encourage entrepreneurship over rent-seeking behavior.

Thoughts from toad town

[2015-04-25 07:32]

"Smoked La Si". Signs with these three Chinese characters were the first thing I saw upon arriving at Fengjing, an ancient town with a 1,500 year history in southwest of Shanghai.

Quitting jobs to fulfill dreams no longer taboo in China

[2015-04-25 07:32]

"The world is big, and I want to see it," wrote a teacher in her resignation letter from a middle school in Central China's Henan province. She had worked there for 11 years.

Investment by Hormel to grow as meat demand rises

[2015-04-24 07:45]

US-based firm eyes sustainable expansion as it starts work on $110 million facility in Jiaxing

Bombardier facility to take off in Tianjin

[2015-04-24 07:45]

Construction started on Thursday in Tianjin for a maintenance facility to be used by Bombardier Business Aircraft, which will be the first facility for the company's business jets on the Chinese mainland.

Riskiest bonds flagged by Haitong after Tianwei default

[2015-04-24 07:45]

A Chinese fertilizer maker facing a bond repayment next month is among four borrowers flagged as the nation's riskiest by Haitong Securities Co after the first State-firm default.

Xi'an seeking to join trade club

[2015-04-24 07:45]

Editor's Note: China already has four FTZs, in Shanghai, Tianjin, Guangdong and Fujian. More local authorities, including Liaoning province and the city of Xi'an, hope to establish their own FTZs.

Dalian looks for place under the FTZ sun

[2015-04-24 07:45]

The governor of Liaoning has urged the central government to approve the Dalian Free Trade Zone as early as possible, in a bid to give the province an edge to diversify its trade.

Inflation bears defeated as swaps show faith in Draghi

[2015-04-24 07:45]

Bond investors are speculating that euro-region inflation is near its bottom, as they look beyond four straight months of slumping consumer prices with bets that Mario Draghi's stimulus policies will work.

Giant media merger in jeopardy

[2015-04-24 07:45]

Comcast-Time Warner marriage may not make it to altar due to strong opposition from US government

Facebook passes 10k staff mark

[2015-04-24 07:45]

Mark Zuckerberg is going to need to find some more pinball machines and rock-climbing walls. The social networking company, known for its many perks that make it a regular on the hottest-places-to-work lists, is increasing headcount at an incredible pace.

Ghana suffers from worst cocoa crop in five years

[2015-04-24 07:45]

Gabriel Kwesi Enoku rakes the dried cocoa beans with his hands. He doesn't have enough to fill a 64-kilogram sack on his farm in western Ghana.

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