Insurance group buys into nation's major lenders tempted by cheap valuations and safe returns
HNA Group Co has agreed to buy a controlling stake in Hong Kong-based construction and real estate company Tysan Holdings Ltd for HK$2.62 billion ($340 million).
Mainland stocks advanced to a three-month high on Tuesday, led by technology and consumer-discretionary companies, as investors took heart from signs the world's second-largest economy is stabilizing.
Firm will invest $1.8b on next-generation OLED screens
Sophie Su feels like a bridge connecting two very different worlds.
Nation's largest State-owned lenders are also speeding up their global expansion
Australian wines are becoming increasingly popular overseas, with the Chinese market growing considerably in recent years.
Shi Dongwei, vice-president of Alibaba Group Holding Ltd, has urged that more global trading information be made available online to Chinese small- and medium-sized enterprises, as they strive to expand overseas.
Despite heightened efforts by Chinese schools to recruit more male teachers in an attempt to counter what education officials worry is a trend of increasing numbers of effeminate boys, male educators are still in short supply across pre-schools in Shanghai.
Every day at work, Gao Zhigang switches between several roles - a playmate, a big brother and a father - for his class of children at China Welfare Institute Kindergarten in Shanghai.
To celebrate World Book Day, we ask Finnish author Maria Turtschaninoff - who recently had a book translated into English for the first time - to recommend some of her favourite YA titles.
London is having a Botticelli moment, with two sizeable exhibitions devoted to the great Renaissance painter opening within a fortnight of each other. This show, focusing on the Florentine master's illustrations for Dante's Divine Comedy, opens ahead of the V&A's Botticelli Reimagined, which looks at his influence on artists from William Morris to Lady Gaga. If this looks on paper like a worthy, bookish forerunner to the main event, it is in fact a revelation.
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