All the headlines from our China Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Nov 1 2023 // China has taken a move that effectively allows insurance firms to make longer-term investment in shares, adding to a drumbeat of support measures to revitalize the country’s stock market.The Ministry of Finance will...
Nov 1 2023 // A Chinese court has ruled a Tesla Inc. vehicle wasn’t the cause of a 2022 accident that killed two people and injured three others, Shanghai Securities News reported.The automaker had sued a social media influencer...
Oct 30 2023 // Shenzhen Shouhui Technology Group Ltd., a Chinese online insurance platform, is considering an initial public offering in Hong Kong as soon as next year, according to people familiar with the matter.China International...
Oct 26 2023 // Estonia’s investigation into a damaged Baltic Sea telecoms cable will focus on the actions of a Chinese-owned vessel, the country’s prosecutor general said, after Finland blamed damage to a nearby pipeline on a...
Oct 19 2023 // Thomas Nuernberger is preparing for tougher times.For the past seven years, the 55-year-old has run the Chinese unit of fan and motor maker ebm-papst, and business has been good. But, as tensions simmer between Berlin and...
Oct 10 2023 // China suffered direct economic losses of 308.29 billion yuan ($42 billion) over the first nine months of 2023, the government said, from natural disasters such as torrential rains, deadly landslides, freakish hailstorms...
Oct 3 2023 // China blocked a senior executive at US risk advisory firm Kroll from leaving the mainland, the Wall Street Journal reported, in the latest case of authorities imposing exit bans on the employees of foreign...
Sep 19 2023 // European Union businesses are concerned about China’s data laws, including their “lack of clarity” and the “long processes” that companies have to undergo, European Commission Vice President...
Sep 18 2023 // Authorities detained some staff of the money management business of China Evergrande Group, a sign that the saga around the defaulted developer at the heart of the nation’s property crisis has entered a new phase...
Sep 13 2023 // China sentenced the former head of the nation’s largest life insurer to death with a two-year reprieve, as President Xi Jinping’s crackdown on corruption in the financial industry continues.Wang Bin,...
Sep 12 2023 // China’s financial regulator on Sunday reduced the risk weighting it attaches to insurance companies’ holdings of blue-chip shares and tech stocks, encouraging them to invest more in the country’s lagging...
Sep 7 2023 // The recently disclosed Chinese hack of senior officials at the U.S. State and Commerce departments stemmed from the compromise of a Microsoft engineer’s corporate account, Microsoft Corp. said in a blog post on...
Sep 5 2023 // Chinese technology giant Huawei has filed a lawsuit with a Lisbon court against a resolution by Portugal’s cybersecurity council CSSC that effectively bars operators from using its equipment in high-speed 5G mobile...
Aug 25 2023 // China’s securities regulator met with representatives from top Western asset managers on Friday to reassure them about the country’s economic prospects, as its post-COVID recovery falters, two people with...
Aug 24 2023 // China’s securities regulator on Thursday granted approval to Allianz Global Investors (Allianz GI) to set up an onshore fund management company as Beijing vowed to step up efforts to attract foreign companies amid...
Aug 23 2023 // China fined U.S. firm Mintz Group about $1.5 million for doing “unapproved statistical work,” said a Beijing Municipal Bureau of Statistics notice, after a raid of its Beijing office sparked worries about...
Aug 18 2023 // (Reuters) – A U.S. judge in Florida on Thursday declined to block the state’s law barring citizens of China and other “countries of concern” from owning homes or land in the state.U.S. District...
Aug 18 2023 // Only a week ago, Zhongzhi Enterprise Group Co. attracted little notice within China and was almost unheard of everywhere else.Now, the secretive shadow banking giant has become the latest symbol of financial fragility in...
Aug 16 2023 // Nebraska Republican Congressman Don Bacon said late on Monday the FBI had warned him that his emails were hacked by Chinese spies, with both personal and campaign messages compromised.Bacon was told that the Chinese...
Aug 15 2023 // China has been hit by devastating floods in recent weeks, inundating cities and causing deaths and infrastructural damage, as well as raising questions about the effectiveness of its 2015 “sponge city”...