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Beijing-based China Cinda Asset Management Co. and Los Angeles-based Oaktree Capital Group says that the two companies have entered into a memorandum of understanding to establish a strategic partnership and to cooperate on business operations. The two parties plan to form a joint venture equally owned by Oaktree and Cinda to invest in distressed assets […]

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Microsoft has formed a partnership with Guangming Founder, which will operate Skype for Microsoft in mainland China. Founded in 2011, Guangming Founder is a joint venture between Gmw.cn and Founder, a Chinese computing company. The company mainly focuses on developing mobile new media businesses. Financial terms of the deal were not revealed. According to Microsoft, […]

France is seriously ill, with Standard & Poor’s recently cutting its sovereign-credit rating for the second time in less than two years. But France’s problems are largely symptoms of a disease that is affecting the entire global economy, rooted in the mutations that unfettered capitalism has generated.

The agreement between Iran and the P5+1 is a promising start to the difficult process of dissuading Iran from its nuclear ambitions. While it is too early to declare the deal an historic achievement, it is also too soon to call it a failure – or to claim that "better" Western negotiators could have extracted more Iranian concessions.

Despite last-minute brinkmanship by Afghan President Hamid Karzai, the US and Afghanistan seem to have worked out a bilateral deal to govern the 8,000-10,000 foreign troops that will remain in the country from next year. But Afghanistan remains a source of significant uncertainty – and high anxiety – in an already unstable region.

Luxury groups contemplate life without vigorous sales growth in China following a government crackdown on spending and gift-giving by officials

Chinese companies – many of them state-owned enterprises – are hiring private security companies when they venture into hostile regions

The author is Fitch Ratings' senior director Sabine Bauer As Hong Kong banks' exposure to mainland China continues to grow and the relatively small size of Hong Kong’s banking system (below 10% of that of China), any stress in the Chinese economy is likely to present huge risks to Hong Kong's financial sector. Competition among […]

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The author is Fitch Ratings' senior director Sabine Bauer As Hong Kong banks' exposure to mainland China continues to grow and the relatively small size of Hong Kong’s banking system (below 10% of that of China), any stress in the Chinese economy is likely to present huge risks to Hong Kong's financial sector. Competition among […]

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China-based Suning Commerce Group is focusing on its electronics retail R&D with a new outpost in the United States. Located in Palo Alto, California, this R&D unit will have an initial investment of USD5 million. According to the company's plans, by mid-2014 the R&D center will have a team of 50 people and the number […]

China-based Suning Commerce Group is focusing on its electronics retail R&D with a new outpost in the United States. Located in Palo Alto, California, this R&D unit will have an initial investment of USD5 million. According to the company's plans, by mid-2014 the R&D center will have a team of 50 people and the number […]

China should stop ratcheting up pressure over disputed isles – the escalation is doubly dangerous as they are covered by the US-Japan security treaty

Investigation by antitrust regulators into the US chipmaker comes as the country gets ready to launch high-speed mobile broadband networks

Chinese PC maker Lenovo has announced plans to invest USD100 million to build a new research and development center in Sao Paulo, Brazil. This move marks Lenovo's further expansion into the international market. The new R&D center will be Lenovo's first offshore software development center to focus on the enterprise product group. Its major R&D […]