The province of Hebei – home to about one quarter of the country’s steel making capacity – agrees to cut its coal usage by 40m by 2017
2013-09-12
In recent weeks, India’s parliament has surprised its detractors by passing two pieces of legislation that could transform the lives of hundreds of millions of people. Taken together, the new laws underscore the government’s move toward making India a society in which welfare is based on entitlements rather than on ephemeral charity.
2013-09-12
Suning Commerce Group's subsidiary Suning Appliance will establish an insurance company. The new insurance sales company will have registered capital of CNY120 million and its main businesses will be selling insurance products and collecting premiums as an agent. Suning Commerce will invest CNY90 million in this company, while Suning Appliance will invest the remaining CNY30 […]
2013-09-12
I have been invited to give a workshop about Consumer Behavior in China to students at Hult International Business School in Shanghai sometime soon – Brian
2013-09-12
Shanghai Daily reports: Apple’s new plastic-backed iPhone 5C will sell for 4,488 yuan (US$730) in China, almost US$200 more than the US retail price of US$549 and only 800 yuan less than its top-of-the-line sibling, the 5S. The pricing of…
2013-09-12
The author is head of Greater China research at Standard Chartered Stephen Green The Third Plenum of the 18th Chinese Communist Party (CCP) Central Committee will likely meet in November. We expect the meeting, chaired by Party Secretary Xi Jinping, to approve a document laying out the broad principles of China’s next stage of economic […]
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2013-09-12
Alipay.com, the third-party Internet payment subsidiary of Alibaba Group, has reached a deal with 11 vending machine operators in China to provide advance payment options when users need snacks. The new service allows users of Alipay's payment service to buy goods from vending machines with their Alipay clients. A user can use a mobile device […]
2013-09-12
Taiwan-based Chunghwa Telecom is answering its users' demands for more audio and video content by introducing a new content delivery network. The CDN is based on SwiftServe technology, and financial terms of the project have not been released. These services will enable Chunghwa Telecom International to meet the increasing demand for bandwidth from the growing […]
2013-09-12
Many businesses may be deluged by and focused on the problems of email spam, but in Hong Kong the government is still going after fax spammers. Hong Kong's Office of the Communications Authority says it conducted a raid operation at the end of August against a commercial facsimile sender in relation to its possible contravention […]
