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Briefly…Top Ten Tweets (From Unreliable Figures, Non-Performing Loans & Competition, To Challenges, Consumers & Brands)This week’s revirew of last week’s news follows below: The latest estimate of GDP growth for 2010 comes from the Chinese economist at the World Bank, and suggests 10% – inline with the estimate from Development Research Center of the State Council a couple of weeks ago. Inflation, as then, remains a worry. China’s overseas […]
Briefly…Top Ten Tweets (From Education, Protectionism & Investment To Strategic Search, Electric SOEs & A Megacity)Welcome to our weekly pick of (last week’s) news from our ChinaBlogTweets Twitter feed. This week’s post is another lighter, holiday version. Full service (and commentary will follow again next week). Education: Fraud, ethics etc RT @chinahearsay: Guardian: Understanding China’s academic woes – Steven Kuo http://is.gd/evOG8 Protectionism: Huawei & ZTE (also see earlier tweet re […]
China The Biggest: IPOWe already know that China is the largest IPO market but, after the Agricultural Bank of China slipped on its “greenshoe”, China has now also produced the largest IPO ever (again). Reuters reports: “Agricultural Bank of China’s (AgBank) (1288.HK)(601288.SS) initial public offering hit a record $22.1 billion on Friday, after it exercised an over-allotment option […]
Chengdu Investment News: August 1, 20091. GDP increased by 14.3 % in first half year
In the first half of this year, Chengdu’s GDP has increased by 14.3%, far higher than the national GDP growth of 7.1%, while the second quarter’s growth rate is 2% higher than that of the first quarter; over half of the task has been realized in […]
All Roads On the MoveJust a quick note for everyone to let you know that we are in the process of moving to a new server. With any luck it will end the “service unavailable been receiving off and on. Not 100% sure if we will be 100% by Monday, but I think we are only hours away from […]
Hong Kong Is Put on Notice. Take the Back Seat to Shanghai.When the RMB first moved from 8.28 to 8.11 per USD, it was rumored that Beijing would look to hold the RMB at the HKD/ USD peg for a while, then remove the HKD. It was one of those rumors that made some in my circle begin to wonder just how much longer Hong Kong […]