The Financial Times leads its China reportage today with figures from Dealogic, a data provider, that show stock exchanges in New York, London and Hong Kong have been left trailing in the wake of mainland bourses in terms of capital raising following PetroChina’s record US$8.9 billion offering last week.PetroChina took the total raised this year throug...

Home Inns takeover of rival budget hotel chain Top Star was the first of its kind in the embryonic industry. In China Today, Cao Qian asks whether the deal has paved the way for further M&A activity

The Beijing 2008 Olympics is as much an economic opportunity as it is a global sporting event. Adidas Asia-Pacific Head of Corporate Public Relations Sabrina Cheung tells The China Perspective how the global sportswear brand has localized to score heavily on the mainland sports fields

Traditionally Golden Week is a time when Chinese consumers loosen their purse strings and go on shopping sprees. This is not limited to consumer electronics, clothes and travel, but also includes big ticket items like cars and apartments. But for the Shenzhen real estate market this Golden Week was a total bust. Only a paltry 82 units were sold during Go...

In banking news, China’s Bank of Communications (Bocom) shares were up as much as 9.5% on speculation that HSBC was interested in increasing its stake in the bank. Bocom shares have risen 77% since their IPO on May 14 of this year. HSBC bought a 19.9% stake in Bocom back in August of 2004 but this position was diluted down to 18.1% after Bocom’...

Great reporting from the Reference News into the government's new policy directive intended to dampen the housing market by discouraging people from taking mortgages on second homes. Under the new requirements a second-home mortgagee will be required to post a 40% down payment and meet a 10% interest rate in the future. The current requirement is 20% for...

I've noticed we don't get much in the main western media about infrastructure investment in China, at least not unless its about investment in the main ports (or perhaps we do, but I just miss it). Anyway, this is unlikely to make the news but the Asia Development Bank (ADB) has made a loan available to the Chinese government towards the cost of the ...