Saturday, 12 September 2009

Real and imagined attacks fan the flames of needle hysteria

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Mysterious needle attacks have spread to new cities in Xinjiang, officials in the restive, far-western region confirmed yesterday, although ...
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Reaction to black talent star shows gulf in cultural sensitivities

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Born to a Chinese mother and a black American father, the 20-year-old Shanghai Theatre Academy student was the major draw in successive appe...
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Obama imposes tariffs on Chinese tires

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President Barack Obama on Friday slapped punitive tariffs on all car and light truck tires entering the United States from China in a decisi...
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Mainland economy stays on recovery course

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The mainland economy continued to recover last month as the expansion in industry and retail sales accelerated while capital investment main...
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Flu likely to infect tens of millions during peak season

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The Ministry of Health issued a stark warning on swine flu yesterday, saying fatalities were unavoidable and tens of millions would be affec...
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Anti-graft move expected at China’s key party meeting

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A breakthrough in China’s long-drawn battle against corruption may emerge at a key meeting of the country’s political leaders next week.
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Jailed for life, Chen and wife go down in history

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A court yesterday sentenced Taiwan’s former president Chen Shui-bian to life imprisonment after convicting him of corruption, marking a wate...
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Ex-Taiwan leader Chen gets life term

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Professor Chen Fang-ming, a Taiwan literature expert from the National Chengchi University, said that Chen’s worst crime was not graft but h...
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Couple’s appeal could take five years

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Chen Shui-bian and his wife Wu Shu-chen could be expected to mount a vigorous fight against the life sentences handed down to them yesterday...
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‘Verdict a warning to politicians to keep their hands out of the cookie jar’

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The trial of former Taiwanese president Chen Shui-bian may have caused a rupture in the pro-independence “green camp”, but it heralds a new ...
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Taiwan media divided over ex-leader's life sentence

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Media in Taiwan were divided on Saturday over former president Chen Shui-bian’s conviction on corruption charges, with some hailing it as a ...
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Profitability of IRs in doubt: Citi analyst

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Can the integrated resorts count on Singaporeans to gamble enough to make them profitable? Citi has doubts.
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Du earned just HK$2m from deals, court told

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Hong Kong’s biggest insider trader may have earned only HK$2 million profit from his HK$87 million in illegal dealings, the District Court h...
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Why Du Jun thought he could flout the law

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Why did Du Jun leave the safety of Beijing and head for Hong Kong to collect a picture and an air purifier, knowing the local regulator was ...
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Jim Rogers: Wait and See Investment in A-shares, Big City Real Estate

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Jim Rogers, an American investor and financial commentator based in Singapore who has been paying close attention to the Asian market, sees ...
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Cash Rich SOEs Pushing Real Estate Bubble Ever Higher

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Since May, real estate enterprises with central enterprise background, and even non real estate firms, have begun to enclose lands, resultin...
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Friday, 11 September 2009

Car loan war around the corner

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Hong Leong Finance first to cut interest rate, putting pressure on other lenders
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Bubbles forming in commodities, stocks, property: Bank of China

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It sees potential risk of liquidity going into asset market
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Driven market with no brand loyalty

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Nouveau riche Chinese are discovering ‘you are what you drive’ - but pricing is still the top concern for most buyers
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Dying to earn: Japan’s foreign slave labourers

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“The most serious problem we face are violations of the law,” Nakajima says. “But these are not just labour laws that are being broken; we s...
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