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Is urban development, including China’s highest building now under construction, hastening Shanghai’s slide into the sea?

The real estate boom seems to have petered out in Shanghai with sellers outnumbering buyers as more and more investors look to exit the sect...

Third judge in corruption hearing

The former deputy chairman of the Xinzhou People’s Political Consultative Conference was jailed for six years yesterday for reckless driving...

Grim economic conditions forced more than 670,000 of the mainland’s small firms out of business, and real unemployment was more than double ...

2009 will be a year of adjustment for the real estate industry. The bearish market may end in the second half of 2009, but a 21st-Century Re...

General Motors Corp posted a 6-percent growth in its China vehicle sales in 2008, the lowest growth rate in at least six years, the US carma...

Chongqing Chang’an Automobile Co, the Chinese listed partner of troubled US car giant Ford, sold 739,307 cars in 2008, down 4 percent from t...

I refer to the letter ‘Thoughts on SGX’s regulatory stance’ by Mak Yuen Teen (BT, Dec 23) and ‘Buyer beware and seller beware too’ by R Siva...

Excluding directors of listed firms from SGX board would limit talent pool

We refer to the letter from Mr. Mak Yuen Teen, ‘Thoughts on SGX’s regulatory stance’ (BT, Dec 23, 2008).

We refer to the article, ‘SGX should set governance benchmark’ by Oh Boon Ping (BT, Dec 25).

But volatile markets also make it more difficult for banks that issue warrants to hedge their risk. As a result, there were 31 per cent fewe...

Funds raised by Chinese companies in local initial public offerings are likely to rise 47 per cent this year compared with last year, accoun...

Businessman Lee Kok Leong, 62, is alleged to have inserted glue into the padlock, main wooden door and rear gate keyholes of a flat at Block...

US 30-year bonds drop amid concern debt sales to reach record.