All the headlines from our China Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jun 13 2007 // A Florida company issued a U.S.-wide recall of toothpaste it imported from China and distributed to wholesalers, saying that the product may contain a poisonous chemical.Gold City Enterprise LLC said the roughly 170,000...
Jun 7 2007 // Willis Group Holdings Chairman and CEO Joe Plumeri, at a press conference in Shanghai, spoke of the global broker’s commitment to the Chinese market. “We are focusing our business on domestic companies so that...
Jun 1 2007 // China plans to release a national plan to combat climate change next week, Chinese officials said Thursday, paving the way for President Hu Jintao’s attendance at an industrialized nations’ summit that is...
May 30 2007 // Asian nations could reduce a quarter of their greenhouse gas emissions by 2030 if they increase renewable energy use, improve coal-fired power plant efficiency and switch to biofuels, a U.S. government report said...
May 29 2007 // Chairman Maurice “Hank” Greenberg is busy growing his current insurance organization, privately-held C.V. Starr & Co. and all of its units, through acquisitions and investments at home and abroad.His plans...
May 25 2007 // China promised to allow U.S banks, securities firms and insurance companies greater access to its financial markets during two days of high-level talks that ended Wednesday.Companies such as insurance provider American...
May 23 2007 // Former President Richard Nixon had a great grasp of foreign affairs and Bill Clinton was a fast learner.Those are among the opinions of recent world leaders offered by Maurice “Hank” Greenberg, current chairman...
May 22 2007 // Boston-based AIR Worldwide Corporation announced that it will be collaborating with the Beijing Institute of Architectural Design (BIAD) in an effort “to better understand the vulnerability of buildings in...
May 21 2007 // In 1968 when the Maurice “Hank” Greenberg took over what was to become American International Group (AIG), it was an insurance agency selling other insurers’ policies around the globe. Within years, AIG...
May 21 2007 // Ohio man sentenced to three years in workers’ fund scandalAn investment marketer who pleaded guilty to conspiring to bribe a former official at the state’s insurance fund for injured workers was sentenced to...
May 21 2007 // Ohio man sentenced to three years in workers’ fund scandalAn investment marketer who pleaded guilty to conspiring to bribe a former official at the state’s insurance fund for injured workers was sentenced to...
May 15 2007 // The banks of China’s massive Yangtze River, a lifeline for tens of millions of people, are at risk of collapse, a state-run newspaper reported Monday. The China Daily said a recent inspection showed that banks on...
May 14 2007 // Boston-based AIR Worldwide Corporation announced a collaboration agreeement with the China Earthquake Administration’s (CEA) Institute of Geology to research active faults and conduct “paleoseismic...
May 7 2007 // Biron AgencyJane Biron Siviski has reactivated her former exclusive bond-only agency in Newington, Conn. Biron Siviski, owner of The J. Biron Agency Inc., announced that her company has separated from Sinclair Insurance...
May 7 2007 // Engle Martin, LMSEngle Martin & Associates, Inc., an Atlanta-based multi-line insurance claims administration and adjusting company, has acquired the specialty fraternal and not-for-profit services of Litigation...
May 4 2007 // International delegates struggled into the night Thursday to agree on ways of cutting destructive greenhouse gas emissions-or face economic and environmental catastrophe caused by global warming.China has emerged as a key...
May 3 2007 // Developing countries are demanding that a key climate report being negotiated this week in the Thai capital recognize a troubling reality: they will be hit worse by a warming world and need plenty of help to deal with...
May 2 2007 // The European Union called on developing countries Tuesday to take action to reduce greenhouse gases, as delegates worked to finalize a report detailing measures needed to save the planet.The draft report from the...
Apr 30 2007 // A pet food manufacturer that recalled 60 million cans of its products last month has sued another company that it says supplied a contaminated ingredient.Menu Foods Midwest Corp. wants ChemNutra Inc., of Las Vegas, to pay...
Apr 18 2007 // A bulletin from the Bermuda-based Catlin Group Limited, whose operating companies also do business from the UK, the U.S. and Lloyd’s, notes that its Lloyd’s Syndicate 2003 “is one of the inaugural...