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Former Chinese leader warns against campaign seen as threatening interests and networks of some Communist party elders and stability of party rule

Europe-Asia focused private equity firm A Capital has launched a new fund called A Capital Technology Fund, hoping to raise up to €1 billion ($1.38 billion), according to a company announcement. Beijing-based Chinese private equity firm, ChinaEquity Group, is to invest in the new fund. The amount of its investment was not disclosed. The new […]

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Online information security and privacy have increased in prominence over the past year, especially since Edward Snowden’s allegations revealed a wide array of government and corporate spying around the world. Danny Levinson, an American technology entrepreneur who has successfully grown and exited Internet ventures in China over the past 20 years, is focusing on online […]

After years of talks about the potential risks within China's local government debt universe, default may finally take place this year. There are signs that the Chinese government has become serious about tackling this problem, and any local government debt default would add pressure to China's economy and its financial system, according to a report […]

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Beijing-based social food application Ricebook.com has raised $7 million in series B financing, according to Chinese media reports. IDG Capital led the round. Existing investor Ceyuan Ventures also participated. Ricebook previously received $1.5 million series A funding from Ceyuan Ventures last June. The company says it will use the proceeds on staff expansion and general […]

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The author is ANZ greater China chief economist Liu Li-Gang Last week, CITIC Pacific, a red-chip listed company in Hong Kong, announced to acquire the main operating unit of its China-based parent, CITIC Limited. The parent unit has shareholder equity of RMB225 billion ($36 billion), and CITIC Pacific will pay for the purchase in cash […]

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Beijing-based business solutions and IT services provider Camelot Information Systems has completed a $95 million privatization deal, led its management team. The company has been delisted from the New York Stock Exchange, according to a regulatory filing of the company. Taiwan-based private equity firm Zoyi Capital has invested $20 million in the company by purchasing […]

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Hong Kong-listed Chinese beverage maker Huiyuan Juice announced that the company has signed a framework agreement with Suntory China to acquire a 100% stake in the latter's food subsidiary in Shanghai. Huiyuan will acquire a 100% stake in Suntory (Shanghai) Foods Co., Ltd. and a 50% stake in Suntory (Shanghai) Foods Marketing Co., Ltd., for […]

Nestle announced that Roland Decorvet, who has been working as chairman and chief executive officer of Nestle Greater China since March 2011, decided to depart the company, and John Cheung has been appointed as new chairman and chief executive officer of Greater China, effective May 1, 2014. Decorvet joined Nestle Group in 1991 and previously […]

Beijing-based department store operator Intime Retail says Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. has agreed to invest HK$5.37 billion ($692.25 million) in the company, according to an announcement of Intime Retail. Alibaba will pay HK$1.66 billion to buy 220.5 million shares at HK$7.53 apiece. The equity stake is equivalent to about 9.9% of the company's enlarged shares. […]

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Beijing-based department store operator Intime Retail says Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. has agreed to invest HK$5.37 billion ($692.25 million) in the company, according to an announcement of Intime Retail. Alibaba will pay HK$1.66 billion to buy 220.5 million shares at HK$7.53 apiece. The equity stake is equivalent to about 9.9% of the company's enlarged shares. […]

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Jacek Rostowski, Poland’s finance minister until last November, recently suggested that Russian President Vladimir Putin would not have dared to annex Crimea if he had not observed Europe agonizing over a solution to the euro crisis. Is Rostowski right?

The world’s economic, financial, and geopolitical risks are shifting. But, as in the run-up to the global financial crisis in 2008, investors seem unable to estimate, price, and hedge tail risks properly.

For Japanese leaders and citizens, President Vladimir Putin’s brutal annexation of Crimea was an unsurprising return to the normal paradigm of Russian history. Indeed, most Japanese regard the move as having been determined by some expansionist gene in Russia’s political DNA, rather than by Putin himself or the specifics of the Ukraine crisis.

Thousands of people in the southern Chinese city of Maoming have taken to the streets to protest against plans to expand a petrochemical plant

China has urged the Philippines to return to direct talks instead of bringing an international arbitration case over the disputed South China Sea

Chinese telecoms group posts record annual sales and its strongest net profit in three years on the back of growth in its enterprise and consumer units

The gambling boom in Jeju and other parts of the country is set to gather pace, following steps to attract Chinese tourism by encouraging development