Brazil has made great efforts as the host for the 2016 Olympic Games. One year after hosting the FIFA World Cup, this sequencing of events was seen as a unique opportunity to promote needed investment in infrastructure (transportation facilities in particular) as well as a window of opportunity to showcase Brazil's beauty and hence attract a good deal of tourists.
As China has resolved to become a superpower in world soccer within a generation, it can pick the best examples and avoid the worst excesses. At base camp it can decide how it wants to reach the peak.
The theme of the 11th G20 Leaders' Summit, "building an innovative, invigorated, interconnected and inclusive world economy", will help China better play its role in world economic development as well as encourage it to promote its innovative mechanism to deepen the interconnectivity of and boost the global economy. China has been the main driver of world economic growth but as the host of the G20 summit - scheduled for Sept 4-5 in Hangzhou, East China's Zhejiang province - its global role has acquired greater importance because of the global economic slowdown and dwindling trade, and developed countries, including the United States, inability to use innovation to tide over the economic problems.
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PCCW Ltd and Tencent Holdings Ltd are leading an investment round in STX Entertainment, giving the distributor of the feature films Bad Moms and The Gift funds to build its TV division, expand internationally and acquire digital media startups.
British startups gathered at the Google Campus in London on Thursday and competed head to head for a chance to fly to Shanghai and join China's growing innovation industry.
Tighter policies to regulate soaring housing prices in some red-hot cities are in the pipeline, industry analysts said.
Hang Seng Index rises to eight-month high on speculation start date soon to be announced
As one of the world's biggest investors in developing countries, Aberdeen Asset Management Plc is no stranger to market drama. But, even this hardened money manager can't stomach the frenetic battle for control at China's biggest developer.
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