In China's Success, a Need for Change The New York Times | BEIJING — Three numbers should suffice to give Chinese economic policy makers a sleepless night: 65.4 million, $28.7 billion and $2.45 trillion. | In order, they are the estimate by a government researcher of how many apartments stand vacant in China, many of them bought as speculative inves...
European Shares Rise on German Data The New York Times | Equity markets in Europe mostly rose Thursday, helped by late gains on Wall Street and more strong data on the German economy, though apprehension over slowing growth in the United States and its impact on the global recovery kept the advance in check. | The tentative rise snapped a lengthy losing...
Concerns, Questions At Hostage Takings Tragic End Scoop Wednesday, 25 August 2010, 2:23 pm | Press Release: Asian Human Rights Commission | A Statement by the Asian Human Rights Commission | HONG KONG/PHILIPPINES: Concerns, Questions At Hostage Takings Tragic End | The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) wishes to express its deepest sympathy and condol...
HSBC warns UK bank break-up could force exodus The Times Of India LONDON: HSBC Holdings, Europe's biggest bank, warned that Britain's big banks could move overseas if a government review decides that lenders should be broken up. Stuart Gulliver, head of investment banking, said HSBC was "genuinely concerned" that a...
How the mighty have fallen Hong Kong Standard It is actually a rather familiar sequence of events. A new firm is founded. The founder gets famous. The firm makes a lot of money. The founder is then allegedly involved in legal violations or even criminal activities. | //--> Tony Liaw | Friday, Se...
Changing the retail landscape Gulf News | Dubai: A rule of thumb in assessing a corporate chief is to find out what his people say and feel about him — in private, of course. Going by that yardstick, Yousuf Ali's standing with his workforce is that of a much-loved and admired f...
Barron's Investigates the Shady Reverse-Merger Business Columbia Journalism Review | A hearty Audit huzzah to Barron’s and reporters Bill Alpert and Leslie P. Norton for a superb investigation into Chinese companies that list in the U.S. stock markets by reverse merging into American shell companies. | Sounds shady from the g...
Cigna Names Acting CFO, Launches Search Insurance Newsnet | Cigna Corp. named Vice President and Treasurer Thomas A. McCarthy as the health insurer's acting chief financial officer, effective immediately, following the departure of Annmarie T. Hagan. | Hagan resigned in a "mutual decision between Annmarie a...
Over 70 Countries Converge to Craft a Truly Global Congress Insurance Newsnet | ROYAL PALM BEACH, FLORIDA--(Marketwire - Sept. 2, 2010) - The Medical Tourism Association announced today that over seventy countries have confirmed participation in the 3rd Annual World Medical Tourism and Global Healthcare Congress in Los Angeles...
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Asian Shares Higher; Nikkei Rises 0.6% The Street Gains were modest across the region as investors waited for U.S. employment figures due out later Friday. August's jobless rate is expected to rise to 9.6% from 9.5% in July, according to a survey of analysts by Thomson Reuters. | Global markets have tumbled the past month as doubts surfaced about the strength of the global recovery. But investors ...
Hong Kong Protests Philippine Deaths The New York Times | HONG KONG — Drawn by a mixture of anger and grief, tens of thousands of Hong Kong residents poured into the streets on Sunday to protest how the Philippine government handled a bus siege last week that ended in the shooting deaths of eight Hong Kong residents and the dismissed police officer who had taken them hostage. | Organizers estimate...
