All the headlines from our China Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Oct 1 2019 // After lashing parts of Taiwan and Japan’s southernmost Ryukyu Islands on Monday, Typhoon Mitag is passing eastern China today and then takes aim at South Korea and the remainder of Japan later this week, according to...
Sep 24 2019 // Bank of England Governor Mark Carney was in no mood for laughter as he stood in his tuxedo before the great and good of the British insurance industry.“I’m going to give you a speech without a joke, I’m...
Sep 23 2019 // A tour bus crashed on a highway running through the red-rock landscape of southern Utah on Friday, killing four people from China and injuring dozens more.The bus from Southern California rolled onto a guard rail, crushing...
Sep 9 2019 // China’s banking and insurance regulator put a cap on Monday on how much insurance firms can invest in their shareholders, aiming to curb risks linked to the misuse of financial resources.China is sharpening its...
Sep 6 2019 // Starr Insurance Cos. has named Dr. Haoming Zhou as general manager and president of Starr China Property and Casualty Insurance Ltd.Zhou has more than 20 years of insurance industry experience. Prior to joining Starr, he...
Aug 30 2019 // As Illinois and Missouri undertake the process of licensing businesses in their newly legalized cannabis industries — recreational in Illinois and medical in Missouri — they have the advantage of taking what has worked...
Aug 29 2019 // Waste from a nickel plant in Papua New Guinea owned by Metallurgical Corporation of China spilled into the adjacent Basamuk Bay over the weekend, three sources told Reuters on Wednesday.Locals noticed red discharge...
Aug 28 2019 // Japan will offer enhanced trade insurance to boost private sector investment in Africa, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said on Wednesday as his country competes with rival China for influence in the resource-rich...
Aug 26 2019 // China Pacific Insurance Group (CPIC) has become the latest investor in B3i, the insurance and reinsurance industry’s blockchain initiative.CPIC’s membership further strengthens B3i’s representation across...
Aug 26 2019 // Tensions flared in Hong Kong on a weekend that began with the formation of a peaceful human chain across the city and culminated two days later with police firing a weapon and using water cannons for the first time.In a...
Aug 23 2019 // Asia-focussed insurer AIA Group Ltd on Friday posted a 20% rise in new business for the first half of the year, as it sold more insurance products in its main markets of Hong Kong and China.AIA’s new business value,...
Aug 23 2019 // A newly created U.S. cybersecurity agency said Thursday that China represents the greatest strategic risk to the U.S., and as a result, the agency’s top operational priority is reducing the risks from Chinese...
Aug 22 2019 // China on Tuesday added 148 drugs to its list of medicines covered by basic medical insurance schemes, part of a push to lower patients’ out-of-pocket costs in one of the world’s largest drug markets, state...
Aug 22 2019 // From Thailand to Kenya, trains run on tracks from steel mills in China’s northeast, a rust-belt region that is trying to capitalize on a multibillion-dollar national initiative to build ports, railways and other...
Aug 16 2019 // Catastrophe risk modeling firm AIR Worldwide estimates insured losses in China from Typhoon Lekima will exceed CNY 6 billion.Lekima made landfall in Taizhou, Zhejiang, China, at 2 a.m. on August 10 local time, with...
Aug 14 2019 // Britain’s biggest insurer Prudential will complete a planned break-up of the company by the end of the year, with its UK-focused fund and insurance business set to list as M&G Plc.The Asia and U.S.-focused rump...
Aug 14 2019 // China’s troubled Anbang Insurance Group has put its $2.4 billion property portfolio in Japan up for sale and previous owner Blackstone Group is bidding, two people familiar with the company’s plans said.The...
Aug 13 2019 // Genworth Financial Inc. agreed to sell its Canadian unit to Brookfield Business Partners LP for C$2.4 billion ($1.8 billion) as it works to win regulatory approval for its acquisition by China Oceanwide Holdings Group...
Aug 13 2019 // Flights leaving Hong Kong were disrupted for a second day on Tuesday, plunging the former British colony deeper into turmoil as its stockmarket fell to a seven-month low, and its leader said it had been pushed into a state...
Aug 12 2019 // The death toll from a typhoon in eastern China rose to 32 on Sunday, with 16 people missing, state broadcaster CCTV reported, as the country braced for more travel disruptions as the storm moved further north up the...