All the headlines from our China Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Mar 5 2012 // Rate Improving“There absolutely is a trend of rate improving…In the U.S., we’ve seen property, workers comp, as well as excess casualty and general liability starting to increase.” —Peter Zaffino,...
Feb 29 2012 // Lawyers for Apple Inc. argued for its right to use the iPad trademark in China on Wednesday, as a higher court began a crucial hearing that could result in sales of the wildly popular tablet computer being halted...
Feb 28 2012 // China’s economy is near a turning point that demands that it relax its grip on industry and move towards free markets, the World Bank said on Monday as it forecast the country would become the world’s largest...
Feb 23 2012 // ING Groep NV is planning to sell its three Asian insurance joint ventures separately from its other Asia assets so that the overall sale is not held up by negotiations with partners, two sources with direct knowledge of...
Feb 23 2012 // The Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC), the United Arab Emirates’ financial hub, expects to permit transactions in Chinese yuan from this year, industry sources told Reuters on Thursday.The change would...
Feb 16 2012 // China’s trademark system is a minefield of murky rules and opportunistic “trademark squatters” that even the world’s biggest companies and their highly-paid lawyers find hard to navigate, as Apple...
Feb 14 2012 // U.S. Vice President Joe Biden said on Tuesday that China had agreed to an important financial sector reform by opening up its massive auto insurance market to foreign competition.Biden said that during a meeting with U.S....
Feb 14 2012 // A Chinese tech firm that says it owns the iPad trademark, plans to seek a ban on exports of Apple Inc.’s computer tablets from China, a lawyer for the company said.If successful, the move could deal a blow to the...
Feb 13 2012 // Celebrity author Han Han has filed a defamation lawsuit in Shanghai against a writer who alleges some of Han’s prolific works were penned by others.Han, a novelist and semiprofessional race-car driver popular among...
Feb 6 2012 // China has tightened the qualifying criteria for firms wanting to audit listed companies, to protect investor interests, according to new regulations published on Monday.The new regulations, made jointly by the finance...
Feb 1 2012 // An online system from Chubb Group of Insurance Cos. can now be used to instantly obtain specimen policy language for trials in many countries where ethics committees require the review of insurance contract terms and...
Jan 30 2012 // China’s Premier Wen Jiabao said the nation’s government debt is at an “overall safe and controllable” level, that funding for key projects would be ensured and that applying the brakes to the...
Jan 30 2012 // China laid out more specific plans to turn Shanghai into a global financial center by 2020, listing a series of targets for the next three years to make the city a hub for yuan trading.The plan for Shanghai’s...
Jan 25 2012 // The United States is making a push for a group of countries within the World Trade Organization to start talks to liberalize trade in services, even if big developing countries like China, India and Brazil don’t want...
Jan 20 2012 // U.S. private equity fund Carlyle Group has sold 18 million shares in China Pacific Insurance (Group) Co. Ltd (CPIC), taking its holding below 5 percent, CPIC said in a statement.Based on Thursday’s closing price,...
Jan 18 2012 // Global economic challenges will make it difficult for insurers to generate growth and profits over the short and long term, however, they might improve their chances for achieving success in 2012 by focusing on new...
Jan 17 2012 // Nothing in Wu Wenyong’s rural childhood hinted he would end up on a hospital bed aged 15, battling two kinds of cancer.Born to poor farmers in Xiaoxin, a dusty village of low brick houses in southwestern Yunnan...
Jan 13 2012 // Aon Benfield announced two new appointments within its Asia Pacific division.Henry To will become non-executive chairman for Greater China. To has been with the firm for 30 years, having served most recently as chief...
Jan 3 2012 // The pace of filings of class actions under federal securities and commodity laws held relatively steady in 2011 as compared to the previous three years, according to a new report.But there has been a substantial shift in...
Dec 28 2011 // The 153 members of the World Trade Organization agree on two things: We’re in a hole. And we must keep digging.The hole is the Doha Development Round, a decade-old negotiation that was billed as the next stage of...