China’s Water Needs Create Opportunities

The Qinghe Wastewater Plant in Beijing. China’s water shortage, especially in the northern part of the country, is driving a need for wastewater recycling.

A diplomatic victory for China

As tensions in the South China Sea rise, Beijing appears to have scored a quiet diplomatic victory by ensuring the Asean grouping is unlikely to get involved in territorial disputes any time soon.

Police will jail every gang boss in the country, top officer promises

Law enforcement agencies across the country would launch all-out raids on triads, dismantle their strongholds and put every gang boss into prison, the mainland’s top policeman promised yesterday.

Nasdaq-style board opens with a bang

All 28 firms on ChiNext in Shenzhen close way above IPO prices

ChiNext, which opened yesterday, is expected to give small- and medium-sized companies access to financing and encourage private firms and venture capitalists to back start-ups.

Analysts unfazed by stock market sell down

Share price corrections are normal in bull markets, they say

China’s crime-buster gets a second wind

Once front-runner for presidency, Bo Xilai wins praise for anti-triad drive

Chinese culture a hard sell

New plan to rejuvenate culture industry doesn’t tackle tight govt control

Decentralised offices in Shanghai may cut costs by up to 50pc

Corporate tenants in Shanghai could save up to 50 per cent of their occupancy costs next year if they were to move to grade A offices in the city’s emerging business areas.

Behind Lujiazui building boom is a promising future

New office towers continue to mushroom from construction sites all over Shanghai’s Lujiazui financial district and to the casual observer it would seem an oversupply disaster looms, with 450,000 square metres of new grade A office space expected to come on to the market in each of the next two years.

China’s $treet fashion

How two U.S. entrepreneurs are selling Chinese fashion to the post-Tiananmen generation.

This Pullback is Buy Opportunity – Not Correction: Strategists

Bold said there’s still $4 trillion on the sidelines and there’s still “a lot of opportunity” going forward.

“Every time the market goes down a little bit, people think it’s going to go down a lot. But at some point, we’re going to get to the greed factor where people are going to think they’re going to miss out on the next run of the market and instead of buying at 6,500, they’re going to buy at 11,000 or 12,000,” said Bold.

Aussie case puts heat on directors

The name Centro Properties would probably not be readily recognisable to most readers, regulators and company directors here but if the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) wins a legal case it initiated last week, you can be sure Singapore-listed companies’ office bearers and anyone with an interest in directors’ responsibilities would surely sit up, take notice and very quickly familiarise themselves with all things Centro.

Galleon wiretap rattles hedge fund industry

First came the biggest bear market since the 1930s, then Bernard Madoff’s US$65 billion Ponzi scheme and the threat of increased regulation. Now hedge funds have a new concern: getting caught on tape as the government expands its use of wiretaps to ferret out insider trading.

S-chips pay attention to lure of Taiwan

After reports that some Singapore-listed Chinese companies or S-chips were seeking secondary listings in Hong Kong and the United States, it has emerged that some of them have pinned their hopes on Taiwan.

Dual-listings can be a double-edged sword

They can unlock value in some cases, but can add to costs and regulatory hassles

China Needs ‘Unexpected’ One-Off Yuan Appreciation

China should allow an immediate one- off appreciation in the yuan’s value and widen the currency’s trading band to stem inflows of speculative capital that may fuel inflation, said UBS AG economist Wang Tao.

Central Banks, Arsonists and Playing with Fire - Andy Xie

Money supply growth has sparked an asset market boom that supports the economy, not the other way around. Don’t get burned.

Raffles, MM Lee and the rule of law

Mr. Lee’s stamp is clear, but he knew what rule of law entailed, says CJ

CJ on judicial independence and judicial review

Addressing an often-raised accusation of executive interference in the judiciary here, he told his audience of lawyers: ‘It is not an oath to protect and defend the President, the legislature or the executive; it is an oath to protect and defend the Constitution.’

Taiwan’s TDR push in Singapore gathers pace

Interest in Taiwan as a secondary listing venue is rising among Chinese companies listed in Singapore and Hong Kong as China-concept stocks gain favour there, said an official from a Taiwanese brokerage.