Back in 2007, when the world's financial markets were roiled with intense spasms of fear about a new Great Depression, I threw caution to the winds, and bought property. I considered Hong Kong, where I had lived, eyeing the fishing island of Cheung Chau.
A potentially vast export market for the United States opened this week when the first shipment of liquefied natural gas from the US sailed into China.
When the Tokyo-headquartered Fujifilm Corp elevated Shigetaka Komori, 77, its CEO since June 2003 and group president since 2000, to chair-man in 2012, photographic products, the company's mainstay, were reeling from the digital onslaught.
Despite posting a roaring 161 percent year-on-year profit growth in its half year financial report on Tuesday, China's biggest auto rental company CAR Inc may not in the mood to pop the Champagne and celebrate just yet over its booming business.
State-owned China Foods Ltd is considering a sale of its stakes in Coca-Cola bottling factories, a move that would reshape its near duopoly on the mainland with Swire Pacific Ltd since the beverage giant began to refranchise its bottling operations.
China's private health insurance market will grow fivefold to 1.1 trillion yuan ($167 billion) by 2020, fueled by fast-growing demand from the emerging middle class, a report showed on Wednesday.
Tesla Motors Inc crowned itself the maker of the world's fastest production car on Tuesday, saying a new version of its Model S all-electric sedan can accelerate from 0-97 kilometers per hour in just 2-1/2 seconds.
Shenzhen-based financial technology platform Penging said China Vanke Co Ltd, the giant residential property developer currently embroiled in a battle for its control, has signed an agreement to invest around 300 million yuan ($45 million), becoming the biggest shareholder in the fintech platform.
Believe it or not, I read The True Story of Ah-Q, by renowned contemporary Chinese writer Lu Xun, not as a literary work, but a guidebook to successful investment, either in commodities, stocks or funds.
China issued a regulation on Wednesday to toughen its control of peer-to-peer lending companies, thus cracking down on illegal fundraising activities through such platforms and preventing financial risks.
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