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Bloomberg - 1 hour 48 minutes ago
Nov. 10 (Bloomberg) -- China Strategic Holdings Ltd. surged 89 percent to 70 Hong Kong cents in Hong Kong pre-market trading today after announcing the purchase of Nan Shan Life Insurance Co. with Primus Financial Holdings Ltd.
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EARTHtimes.org - 54 minutes ago
Hong Kong - T-shirts showing Barack Obama dressed as one of Mao Zedong's Red Guards have been taken off sales racks in China ahead of the US president's visit, a newspaper reported Tuesday. Market stalls and souvenir shops in Beijing have reportedly ...
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Market Watch - Mon Nov 9, 3:25 am ET
Moody’s lifts its outlook for China and Hong Kong sovereign ratings, as well as those for a number of Chinese banks, adding that credit fundamentals are likely to continue to improve as the country emerges from the global recession.
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Market Watch - Mon Nov 9, 5:40 am ET
Moody's lifts its outlook on China and Hong Kong.
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Bloomberg - 1 hour 32 minutes ago
ICBC, the world’s most profitable bank, advanced 2.3 percent. Bank of China , the nation’s third-largest lender, climbed 1.5 percent. Credit Suisse lifted its recommendation on the shares to “outperform.”
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AFP via Yahoo! News - Mon Nov 9, 6:21 pm ET
President Barack Obama will directly raise human rights with Chinese President Hu Jintao next week, after being criticized for not meeting Tibet's spiritual leader Dalai Lama before visiting Beijing.
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AFP via Yahoo! News - Mon Nov 9, 7:22 am ET
The Dalai Lama held a mass audience with tens of thousands of devotees Monday on a "non-political" visit to a region near India's border with Tibet that has drawn strong protests from China.
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Bloomberg - 44 minutes ago
Nov. 10 (Bloomberg) -- China’s exports probably fell at the slowest pace this year in October, pushing the trade surplus to an eight-month high and bolstering the case for policy makers to allow the yuan to appreciate.
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AFP via Yahoo! News - Mon Nov 9, 5:18 pm ET
The United States urged China Monday to ensure transparent and fair trials after Beijing said it executed nine people over ethnically charged violence in the far-western city of Urumqi.
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Bloomberg - 22 minutes ago
Nov. 10 (Bloomberg) -- China Petroleum & Chemical Corp. , and PetroChina Co. , the nation’s two largest oil refiners, rose in Hong Kong trading after the government increased gasoline, diesel and jet fuel prices for the first time in more than two months.
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Washington Post - Mon Nov 9, 12:00 am ET
TAWANG, INDIA -- Joyous Buddhist pilgrims welcomed the Dalai Lama back Sunday to the Himalayan town he first set foot in five decades ago while fleeing Chinese rule in his native Tibet -- a rare trip close to his homeland that has angered Beijing.
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Bloomberg - Sun Nov 8, 7:52 pm ET
Nov. 9 (Bloomberg) -- China Minsheng Banking Corp. , the nation’s first privately owned lender, seeks to raise as much as HK$31.54 billion ($4.07 billion) in Hong Kong’s biggest public sale of shares since April 2007.
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Bloomberg - Sun Nov 8, 7:29 pm ET
Nov. 9 (Bloomberg) -- Sands China Ltd., the Macau unit of billionaire Sheldon Adelson’s casino company, may raise as much as HK$26 billion ($3.4 billion) in a Hong Kong initial share sale, said three people familiar with the matter.
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The Southern Illinoisan - Mon Nov 9, 12:55 pm ET
With every new edition of this book, identifying the "Best of China" becomes a more and more difficult task. As this once isolated giant awakens, forces are being unleashed that impact tourism. Devastating pollution, widespread corruption, and the sheer volume of tourists have transformed many of China's best-known sights into filthy, overpriced circuses. To find the very best that China has to ...
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Bloomberg - 1 hour 32 minutes ago
Nov. 10 (Bloomberg) -- China Minsheng Banking Corp. , the lender that’s planning a Hong Kong stock sale, booked an 824 million yuan ($121 million) loss on its stake in UCBH Holdings Inc., whose bank was seized by U.S. regulators last week.
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Bloomberg - 1 hour 4 minutes ago
Nov. 10 (Bloomberg) -- China Resources Land Ltd. ’s potential addition to the Hang Seng Index after a quarterly review would make it the third of its state-controlled parent’s companies to be included in Hong Kong’s stock benchmark.
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Bloomberg - 1 hour 48 minutes ago
Nov. 10 (Bloomberg) -- China’s stocks rose for an eighth day, the longest winning streak in more than two years, as a rally in commodities boosted raw-materials producers.
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International Herald Tribune - Mon Nov 9, 12:48 pm ET
The editor of China’s premier business magazine has left her post after a battle for control involving the same mix of political and financial intrigue that she made her mark uncovering.
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Bloomberg - 1 hour 19 minutes ago
Nov. 10 (Bloomberg) -- China’s housing prices jumped the most in 14 months in October amid concern that this year’s record lending may create asset bubbles.
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Bloomberg - 1 hour 44 minutes ago
Nov. 10 (Bloomberg) -- China, the world’s second-largest energy user, raised gasoline, diesel and jet fuel prices for the first time in more than two months as crude costs climbed.