Internet lending transactions surged to a record during the first six months of the year in China, with the bulk of the deals made through mobile devices, according to industry reports.
If a slowing economy and intensifying competition were not putting enough pressure on Chinese travel websites, now the industry faces another potential obstacle to growth: A weaker local currency.
Investors from China are increasingly scouting for opportunities in overseas markets due to the wild swings in the domestic capital markets and currency weakness, said an industry report published on Monday.
Hanergy Thin Film Power Group Ltd, the Hong Kong-listed solar-equipment manufacturer at the center of a regulatory probe, warned it could record a loss for the first six months of the year, after the cancellation of deals worth billions of dollars with its parent company.
With the recent stock market rout, unimpressive growth data, and yuan devaluation against the US dollar, the Chinese economy seems to be in a particularly difficult stage.
Leveraging the potential of information technology to boost the bottom line is the sole responsibility of the IT department or is it? As quickly as social media has changed the way people interact, so too has business technology in altering the way businesses operate.
Where were the experts when the financial crisis struck? How could they have allowed it to happen?
It came as no surprise recently to read that the Chinese yuan, or renminbi, as it is also widely known, is set to replace the Japanese yen to become the fourth international currency within two years.
David Kynaston believes many underestimate just how Hong Kong has transformed itself over the past 35 years.
Anyone even marginally involved in commodities will be aware that last year's Qingdao port incident had an immense impact on the worldwide financing trade for metals. More than a year after the discovery of large-scale collateral fraud involving warehouse receipts for metal stored at Qingdao port in Shandong province, which had been pledged multiple times as collateral to raise finance, Chinese and international banks continue to take a dim view of lending to the copper industry, and the metals sector as a whole.
For many people the words fasting and self-denial conjure up negative images, ones of pallid, listless bodies and of hard-to-bear sacrifice that are out of tune with the zeitgeist of the me generation.
Fan Zhihong, a nutritionist and a member of the board of directors of the Chinese Nutrition Society, and an associate professor of nutrition and food safety at the China Agricultural University in Beijing, says:
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