All the headlines from our China Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Sep 18 2017 // ZhongAn Online P&C Insurance Co., China’s largest online insurer, started taking orders for a Hong Kong initial public offering that could raise as much as $1.5 billion.The Shanghai-based company is offering...
Sep 18 2017 // A student permanently disabled by a tick bite while on a school field trip in China is entitled to $41.7 million in damages, according to the Connecticut Supreme Court’s August ruling in support of a jury’s...
Sep 6 2017 // China’s Anbang Insurance Group Co. Ltd. and HNA Group Co. Ltd. separately considered buying stakes in German insurer Allianz SE as part of plans to create a global financial empire, people with direct knowledge of...
Sep 5 2017 // Fosun International Ltd., one of the companies in the cross hairs of a Chinese government crackdown on offshore acquisitions, says its plans for growth don’t clash with the authorities’ agenda.The acquisitive...
Aug 31 2017 // Fosun International, one of China’s most acquisitive conglomerates, brushed off the impact of a crackdown on overseas dealmaking and said it welcomed Beijing’s guidelines on offshore investment, as it posted a...
Aug 22 2017 // The Connecticut Supreme Court in August supported a jury’s decision to award $41.7 million in damages to a student permanently disabled by a tick bite while on a school field trip in China, stating that schools in...
Aug 22 2017 // For years, Kai-Fu Lee would share his venture capital firm’s office space in Beijing with startups he was backing so they could get advice and collaborate with each other. But about three months ago, the last of the...
Aug 18 2017 // A group led by Yunfeng Financial Group Ltd., the company backed by billionaire Jack Ma, agreed to buy an Asian unit from Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Co. to add insurance products to the array of financial services...
Aug 17 2017 // Ping An Insurance Group Co of China , the country’s second-largest insurer by market value, on Thursday reported its biggest half-yearly profit in at least a decade on robust growth in life insurance premiums.The...
Aug 16 2017 // China, facing a possible decline in foreign investment this year, will become more open for international investors and take steps to better protect intellectual property, its cabinet said on Wednesday.In recent months,...
Aug 16 2017 // A blackout caused by a blunder at Taiwan’s biggest gas-fired plant is the latest challenge to an electricity grid recently pushed to its limit and to President Tsai Ing-wen’s efforts to reshape the...
Aug 10 2017 // The volume of completed mergers and acquisitions (M&A) in the global insurance industry continued dropping during the first six months of 2017 to 170 deals, compared to 186 deals reported for the second half of 2016,...
Aug 9 2017 // Demand for cyber insurance from firms in Greater China and elsewhere in Asia is poised to soar, based on inquiries received after the “WannaCry ransomware” attack earlier this year, executives at American...
Aug 9 2017 // The vast majority of global natural disasters during July were the result of severe flooding across the Asian region, bringing more than $10 billion in economic damages, according to a report published by Impact...
Aug 4 2017 // While spring floods left many rice farmers with fewer acres of rice than they originally planned, they’re hopeful a rising market can offset at least some of the lost acreage.“We had 1,400 acres, and we were...
Aug 3 2017 // President Xi Jinping’s top economic adviser commissioned a study earlier this year to see how China could avoid the fate of Japan’s epic bust in the 1990s and decades of stagnation that followed.The report...
Aug 1 2017 // When Anbang Insurance Group Co. agreed to buy New York’s iconic Waldorf Astoria hotel for $1.95 billion in 2014, the world took notice. It was a defining moment in the global rise of China Inc., a deal that would...
Aug 1 2017 // A Chinese court has ruled that a transgender man was unjustly dismissed by a former employer, the plaintiff said Thursday [July 27], in the country’s first such discrimination lawsuit.The 29-year-old man, who...
Aug 1 2017 // As Anbang Insurance Group Co. comes under pressure to reverse a $10 billion-plus global deal spree, a quick selldown of assets may not be so easy.China is said to have asked the acquisitive insurer to sell its overseas...
Jul 31 2017 // When Anbang Insurance Group Co. agreed to buy New York’s iconic Waldorf Astoria hotel for $1.95 billion in 2014, the world took notice. It was a defining moment in the global rise of China Inc., a deal that would...