ICBC upbeat on 50pc net leap Hong Kong Standard Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (1398) is confident its first-half result will be 50 percent higher than last year's owing to better business growth and a lower tax rate. | //--> Friday, July 04, 2008 | Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (1398) is confident its first-half result will be...
HK shares off lows on China Mobile, CNOOC gains The Times Of India | HONG KONG: Hong Kong stocks eked out a small gain on Thursday after opening 1.5 per cent lower, helped by a late morning rally by index heavyweights China Mobile and CNOOC as investors shopped for bargains. | Ping An Insurance fell anoth...
HK shares off lows on China Mobile, CNOOC gains The Times Of India | HONG KONG: Hong Kong stocks eked out a small gain on Thursday after opening 1.5 per cent lower, helped by a late morning rally by index heavyweights China Mobile and CNOOC as investors sh...
HK shares seen lower on oil price, China market The Times Of India | HONG KONG: Hong Kong shares are expected to start the second half of 2008 on a low note, with investors reacting to the previous session's sharp pullback in mainland markets and the steep...
Olympics a Bust for Beijing Business Time Magazine | Even as Beijing prepares to welcome the world for the Summer Olympics, some of the city's foreign residents are planning their farewell parties. China's epic economic transformation has, in recent years, swelled the city's expatriate population to ...
Chinese bank has market cap twice that of JPMorgan Canada Dot Com | Not many heads of global banks earn less than Jiang Jianqing, chairman of Industrial & Commercial Bank of China Ltd. Jiang's $260,000 salary last year was less than 1 percent of the $27.8 million JPMorgan Chase & Co. paid Jamie Dimon. | Jiang has b...
Chinese shares fall 1.18 pc in morning trade The Times Of India | SHANGHAI: Chinese share prices fell 1.18 pc by midday Monday in thin trading, as rising oil prices continued to stoke fears of falling corporate profits and higher inflation, dealers said...
China quake hits Indian silk sector The Times Of India | NEW DELHI: Indian silk industry with an annual business of over Rs 10,000 crore has been hit hard by last month’s earthquake in China, a major supplier of raw silk for the manufacturing...
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China quake hits Indian silk sector The Times Of India | NEW DELHI: Indian silk industry with an annual business of over Rs 10,000 crore has been hit hard by last month’s e...
Jollibee decides to temper expansion Manila Bulletin Jollibee Foods Corporation intends to ease down its aggressive expansion efforts due to the weakness in consumer spending caused by runaway inflation. | In a press briefing after t...
Flat-earther blind to oil facts Asia Times | By Henry C K Liu | Celebrated New York Times columnist Thomas L Friedman, a flat-earthling, in a provocative polemic this week accused the United States president of being the na...
China vows new action to stabilise markets, says official Turkish Press | A Chinese investor stands in front of a shares prices board at a private securities firm in Shanghai in February 2008. China's securities regulator has said it will do whatever is necessary to ensure the country's stock market stability and healthy...
Chinese shares sharply lower in morning trade The Times Of India | | | | SHANGHAI: Chinese share prices were sharply lower in Monday morning trade, down more than two percent as investor sentiment was dragged down by losses on Wall Street, dealers said. | Investors took cues from ...
Johnson, Liukin advance to Beijing Philadelphia Daily News | NANCY ARMOUR | The Associated Press | PHILADELPHIA - Shawn Johnson and Nastia Liukin are taking their rivalry to the Beijing Olympics, where it will have golden overtones. | Now the fun is seeing who will join them. | Johnson and Liukin earned guar...
Matta Fair is expected to generate estimated sales of RM25mil The Star | THE 12th Matta Fair Penang at the Penang International Sports Arena (Pisa) got off to a rousing start with visitors making a beeline for the booths as soon as it was officially opened by Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng yesterday. | There were many eager early birds at the venue checking out promotions at the three-day fair. | With rising prices, trav...
Incredible India, indeed Asia Times | By Chan Akya | The irritating jingle for India's tourism advertisements uses the slogan "Incredible India". I for one tend to agree that the country is incredible, if the literal meaning of the adjective may be employed to mean that various aspects of the country's policy are simply not credible in today's global economic context. | Just on Frida...
