Exit Barriers for US-Listed Chinese Stocks

    Jinan-based software developer Pansoft Co. Ltd. says it’s going private, climbing aboard an increasingly crowded life raft as Chinese companies abandon US stock investors. As of mid-January, some 20 of the 230 Chinese companies with stock traded on the New York or Nasdaq exchanges had announced privatization plans. At least eight in the group had completed the process. The privatization push, expected to accelerate in 2012, stands in stark contrast to the scene in early [...]

    Bringing forgotten soldiers home

    WE know about the famous Flying Tigers, Merrill’s Marauders and the Burma Road but the valor of the Chinese Expeditionary Forces in Burma is far less known. Journalist Sun Chunlong tells Zha Minjie that he hopes to change that. While the People’s Liberation Army today is lauded for its glorious achievements, the 400,000 Chinese soldiers who fought the Japanese during World War II in the jungles of Burma, saving China’s lifeline, have received little recognition. [...]

Africa

China stays firmly committed to advancing ties with Africa, says vice FM

China will firmly stand together with African countries while unswervingly pushing forward Sino-African strategic partnership, no matter how the international ...

Quality Cooperation

China-Africa relations based on common development and mutual benefit gain new momentum Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi started his diplomatic trips ...

Outbound investment slows

China’s non-financial outbound direct investment totaled $60 billion last year, the Ministry of Commerce (MOFCOM) said yesterday, a rise of ...

Asia / Pacific

Bringing forgotten soldiers home

WE know about the famous Flying Tigers, Merrill's Marauders and the Burma Road but the valor of the Chinese Expeditionary ...

Outbound investment slows

China’s non-financial outbound direct investment totaled $60 billion last year, the Ministry of Commerce (MOFCOM) said yesterday, a rise of ...

Diplomacy and military readiness keys to sea sovereignty

Opinions regarding the South China Sea have been issued with increasing frequency by Chinese diplomats lately. According to Yang Jiechi, ...

International Relations

China faces diplomatic challenges in 2012

Instability and uncertainty loom large as the world enters 2012, a year in which China should play an even greater ...

Time not yet ripe for China’s foreign bases

Editor's Note: The Seychelles, a small island nation off the east coast of Africa, is under the media spotlight, as the ...

China’s foreign policy not a matter of tough vs. soft

At a foreign policy seminar in Beijing yesterday, Assistant Foreign Minister Le Yucheng pointed out that the international community, especially ...

Central & South America

Outbound investment slows

China’s non-financial outbound direct investment totaled $60 billion last year, the Ministry of Commerce (MOFCOM) said yesterday, a rise of ...

Costa Rica to tap FTA with China in 2012

Costa Rica will take advantage of its Free Trade Agreement (FTA) with China to strengthen its commercial ties with other ...

Latin America integration

Creation of CELAC reflects region's growing influence in the trend toward multi-polarization of world governance The official creation of the Community ...

Civil Society

NGOs: Residents should set off fewer fireworks

As the quality of the city's air continues to give rise to concerns, many NGOs are asking the public to ...

Working hard to make a change in China

Nine years ago, when Liu Siyu was 12, he joined Xishuangbanna Volunteers' Association in Yunnan Province, not for some noble ...

NGO in legal limbo

A Beijing-based grass roots charity association yesterday complained it is unable to get funds from the government, as the organization ...

Climate Change

Guangxi becomes China’s largest coal importer

Ports in China's southwestern Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region surpassed their counterparts in neighboring Guangdong province to boast the country's largest ...

Wind tower row may hurt Chinese firms

Chinese wind-tower manufacturers pledged on Friday to actively challenge a US investigation that could lead to crippling import duties on ...

Stricter emissions rules make Chinese businesses greener

Last summer, an air-conditioner factory in east China gave up using traditional air conditioners and turned to a much greener ...

Labour

Road workers lay siege to office over unpaid wages

HUNDREDS of migrant workers besieged a highway construction firm's office in central China's Hubei Province, demanding 200 million yuan (US$32 ...

Civil servants lose free medical care

At least 24 of the Chinese mainland's 31 provincial-level regions have abolished the practice of giving free medical services to ...

China’s urban jobless rate at 4.1% in 2011

China's urban jobless rate stood at 4.1 percent in 2011, the same as a year earlier, said the Ministry of ...

Finance

Exit Barriers for US-Listed Chinese Stocks

Jinan-based software developer Pansoft Co. Ltd. says it's going private, climbing aboard an increasingly crowded life raft as Chinese companies ...

China’s Mature Markets Don’t Need Paternalism

With the arrival of a new securities chief come fresh opportunities for transparency and ending heavy-handed market controls Capital market regulation ...

Reshuffle may lead to risks for lenders

A reshuffle of local leaders, which takes place every five years in China, is likely to subject the country's banking ...