Two Chinese Internet stocks have seen their shares soar after debuting on U.S. stock markets last week, reaffirming overseas investors' appetite for Chinese stocks amid a high-profile spat between U.S.-listed Chinese companies and short-sellers.
Some South Korean conglomerates were facing growing liquidity risks amid deepening bipolarization of debt-financing and profit-generating capabilities among companies, a report by the central bank showed Thursday.
The Chinese government's latest move to streamline company registration offers a prime opportunity for business startups, especially small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), analysts have said.
Beijing is wooing Internet-based financial services such as online peer-to-peer lending and crowd financing to move their activities to its technological hub, promising perks from lower rents to cash rewards.
The employment of retired government officials as independent directors has become a trend among China's listed companies, but a target of criticism among the public.
A UN report released Thursday called on global companies to take more action to address sustainability issues.
China's National Bureau of Statistics on Thursday announced it had uncovered a serious case involving the faking of economic data by a county government in southwest China's Yunnan Province.
The 2013 edition of the Top 500 Chinese Enterprises list was unveiled at a press conference on Saturday, with China's oil giant Sinopec Group topping the list for a ninth year.
Chinese stocks traded in the United States have been rebounding over the past several months, boosted by beneficial economic and policy environment. Analysts believe the China-based stocks will continue the upward trend, which may lead IPO of Chinese companies in the United States out of dark.
A newspaper report on JPMorgan over its hiring of influential Chinese officials' children sparked widespread vitriol among the country's netizens. Most of the web users supported the U.S. authorities' probe into the investment company's hiring practice, with some calling it an "open secret" and "just a drop in the bucket."
The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) has finished a draft to promote mergers and acquisitions of infant formula companies. According to the draft, the ministry will foster the growth of large dairy companies over the next five years and aim to cultivate three to five companies each with an annual sales revenue exceeding 806 million U.S. dollars by the end of 2018.
China's recent crackdown on suspected economic violations committed by multinational drug companies has shown the authorities' determination to curb high medical prices.
The amicable solution to a dispute between China and the European Union (EU) over solar panels has brought benefits to China's photovoltaic (PV) industry but also poses potential risks to the Chinese companies.
China has issued record fines of 670 million yuan (108 million U.S. dollars) to six baby formula companies on the mainland following an anti-trust probe, the country's top economic planner announced Wednesday.
Taobao.com, China's leading online shopping platform, has delayed the sale of fund products until late September at the earliest, Monday's China Securities Journal reported.
Thirty-nine employees of a hospital in south China's Guangdong Province will be punished for taking illegal kickbacks from pharmaceutical companies, the National Health and Family Planning Commission (NHFPC) said Tuesday.
A probe into possible price fixing by foreign and domestic baby formula firms will lead to the consolidation of the dairy sector, experts have said.