Think Positive

On the evening of August 3, a shop owner in Algiers objected to a Chinese trader parking outside his shop. After the two traded blows, the C...

With values running 25% below peak, they can’t charge full fees

The new breed of ‘shoebox’ private apartments may have caught the imagination, but don’t expect them to invade the housing landscape. Some m...

Nine of China’s top universities have banded together to form the country’s version of the American Ivy League.

Chinese property firms are lowering their expectations about the amount of the money to be raised in the Hong Kong stock market.

Investors have become increasingly selective about new share sales in Hong Kong after some weak trading debuts by large initial public offer...

The investment world is full of weasel words designed to mislead investors, or maybe just accentuate the positive. This produces confusion, ...

The founder of a group that challenged Communist Party rule with a call for multiparty democracy has been sentenced to 10 years in prison, a...

Chongqing party boss Bo Xilai said the government was forced to stage a massive crackdown on gangsters as a response to public pressure.

For the implementation of China’s four trillion yuan economic stimulus, the central government requires matching funds by local governments ...

Half the world’s richest self-made women are Chinese.

The 2 key things to note: 1) Survival, 2) Absolute price of a stock is unimportant. It is the direction of the price movement that counts.

Shanghai’s icon of Architecture

It was once dubbed by Esquire magazine as ‘the worst building in the history of mankind’ and seen as a symbol of the country’s failure, but ...

The Shenzhen Stock Exchange will require the 28 firms scheduled to list on the new second board to disclose how they will use the extra proc...

The reason HSBC Holdings gave up Skyhigh, perched on top of the Peak, for something further down the hill in 1991 was a “lightning decision”...

So is the regulator going to do anything about Ernst & Young following the Akai Holdings scandal? That is the question being asked loud ...

In all, six people were arrested, accused by prosecutors and the Securities and Exchange Commission of earning more than $20 million from il...