All the headlines from our China Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Sep 2 2011 // China’s State Oceanic Administration (SOA) has ordered a subsidiary of ConocoPhillips to halt all operations at the Penglai 19-3 oilfield in northern China’s Bohai Bay, saying the company has failed to seal a...
Sep 1 2011 // A record rise in global greenhouse emissions and ever tighter economic constraints make it crucial for United Nations climate talks in South Africa in November to overcome years of deadlock and deliver a solution, the...
Aug 31 2011 // Asia will add 1.66 million dollar-millionaires by 2015, taking the total number of wealthy to 2.82 million as the world’s fastest-growing major economies of China and India continue to mint millionaires, a report...
Aug 30 2011 // Typhoon Nanmadol headed to southeastern China on Monday after dumping more than 20 inches (half a meter) of rain in southern Taiwan, where wide swaths of agricultural land were flooded and some 8,000 people evacuated.The...
Aug 26 2011 // A.M. Best Co. has affirmed the financial strength rating of ‘A’ (Excellent) and the issuer credit ratings of “a” of China Reinsurance (Group) Corporation (China Re) and its subsidiaries, China...
Aug 24 2011 // A subsidiary of ConocoPhillips said it has started evaluating the impact of its oil spill on the marine environment in China’s northern Bohai Bay, but it has not yet received any claims for the incident.State media...
Aug 19 2011 // Ping An Insurance Co. of China Ltd. said Thursday its fast-growing banking business helped to boost profit for the first half by nearly 33 percent.Profit for the six months ending June 30 was 12.8 billion yuan ($1.9...
Aug 17 2011 // Chinese Vice-Premier Li Keqiang said China will soon allow foreign investors to buy mainland securities using yuan up to an initial quota of 20 billion yuan ($3.1 billion), a move aimed at promoting international use of...
Aug 16 2011 // Insurance Australia Group Limited (IAG) announced it has agreed to acquire a 20 percent strategic interest in China’s Bohai Property Insurance Pty Ltd., a general insurerIAG said it would pay RMB687.5 million...
Aug 15 2011 // American International Group (AIG) showed the world it wants to once again be taken as a systemic risk to the financial system by offering to help bail out the U.S. government.Buoyed by its sale of its surplus lines (see...
Aug 15 2011 // China has closed on its previously announced acquisition of the top 25 surplus lines insurers in the U.S. for $21 billion.As a group the 25 insurers write $26 billion, which is about 80 percent of the entire U.S. surplus...
Aug 12 2011 // A Chinese bullet train manufacturer has halted some production while it investigates repeated breakdowns on the new Beijing-Shanghai line. China North Locomotive and Rolling Stock’s announcement is the latest setback...
Aug 11 2011 // Reinsurance broker Aon Benfield has sponsored the third edition of the Atlas of Natural Disaster Risk in China, a Chinese government research project that for the first time looks at how hazard, vulnerability and exposure...
Aug 11 2011 // New China Life, the country’s third-largest life insurer, has filed an application to list in a dual Hong Kong and Shanghai IPO, sources said, braving volatile markets to raise up to $4 billion.New China Life, in...
Aug 5 2011 // Catastrophe modeling firm AIR Worldwide is currently tracking Typhoon Muifa as it moves across the Pacific Ocean towards mainland China, after delivering heavy rain to the Philippines Tuesday and Wednesday. Muifa is...
Aug 4 2011 // A major new hacking attack underscores that governments and companies are losing the war against cyber thieves, but it’s unclear if the disclosure will prompt quicker global action against online break-ins.A U.S....
Aug 4 2011 // Swiss Re reported Group net income increased by 18 percent to $960 million in the second quarter of 2011, compared to $812 million in the same period of 2010. “All segments contributed to these positive results,...
Aug 3 2011 // Security experts have discovered the biggest series of cyber attacks to date, involving the infiltration of the networks of 72 organizations including the United Nations, governments and companies around the...
Aug 3 2011 // China is considering a proposal to create a ministerial-level body to manage its state-owned banks and non-bank financial enterprises, two sources with knowledge of the plan said, a move that would strengthen...
Jul 27 2011 // A global deal on a pact to succeed the U.N.’s main climate agreement is still within reach but will not be struck this year, with the pace of talks still far too slow, New Zealand’s top climate negotiator said...