All the headlines from our China Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jun 19 2008 // The United States and China wrapped up two days of talks on Wednesday under a so-called “strategic economic dialogue” set up two years ago to ease tensions over trade and economic issues.They reported the...
Jun 16 2008 // State media reported that 55 people have been killed and seven are missing in flooding across a broad stretch of southern China. A Sunday, June 15, report by the official Xinhua News Agency says more than 1 million people...
Jun 16 2008 // Asian insurers may go on a buying spree. A number of companies, particularly China’s major players, are likely to seize the credit crunch as an opportunity to snap up assets in Europe and the United States, said a...
Jun 10 2008 // Chinese soldiers used anti-tank weapons to blast away rocks and mud holding back waters in an earthquake-formed lake that threatens more than 1 million people living downstream.Television and official Web sites showed...
Jun 4 2008 // Willis recently hosted a conference of senior risk managers from the US oil and gas industry at its inaugural Global Risk Challenge seminar in Houston. They concentrated on finding out more about some of the major...
Jun 3 2008 // Asian insurers, particularly China’s major players, are likely seize the credit crunch as an opportunity to snap up assets in Europe and the United States, senior insurance figures said on Tuesday.“Asian...
Jun 2 2008 // Menu Foods Income Fund said Friday that a U.S. court gave preliminary approval to a settlement agreement covering lawsuits in U.S. and Canadian courts.Menu Foods was was hit by more than 100 class action lawsuits last year...
Jun 2 2008 // After five weeks of high level discussions, Australia’s QBE Group withdrew its offer to acquire Insurance Australia Group Limited (IAG), following the decision of IAG’s board to recommend against accepting the...
May 30 2008 // The Starr Foundation of New York and Starr International Foundation of Switzerland have announced a joint grant to the China Charity Federation totaling $1 million for earthquake relief in China. The donation was...
May 30 2008 // In the wake of the devastating Sichuan earthquake, representatives from The China Insurance Regulatory Commission (CIRC), Risk Management Solutions (RMS), and China’s Institute of Engineering Mechanics (IEM) met with...
May 28 2008 // China’s CNinsure Inc. announced the signing of definitive agreements with several individual entrepreneurial agents to jointly establish Jiangsu Fanhua Lianchuang Insurance Agency Co. Ltd. (‘Lianchuang’)...
May 28 2008 // ChinaGrowth North Acquisition Corporation (CGNAC) announced that it has entered into a Share Purchase Agreement to acquire the Chinese insurance broker UIB Group Limited. Following completion of the transaction, UIB will...
May 27 2008 // The ACE Group of Companies announced that the ACE Foundation – International has made a $1 million contribution to the Red Cross Society of China to support emergency relief efforts following the earthquake that...
May 23 2008 // CNinsure Inc., China’s major independent insurance agency and broker, announced that its Board of Directors has appointed Mr. Yongwei Ma, the former chairman of the China Insurance Regulatory Commission (CIRC), as an...
May 20 2008 // China’s government says companies suffered 67 billion yuan (US$9.5 billion; €7 billion) in direct losses from last week’s earthquake. The announcement by a deputy industry minister, Xi Guohua, came during a...
May 19 2008 // American International Group announced a $1 million (approximately 7 million RMB) donation to support relief and rebuilding efforts following the recent 7.9-magnitude earthquake that struck China’s Sichuan Province...
May 16 2008 // Fitch Ratings has issued a bulletin from its Hong Kong/Singapore offices indicating that “based on preliminary estimates, the earthquake in China is not expected to have a material impact on the balance sheets of the...
May 15 2008 // As the magnitude of the earthquake that struck China’s Sichuan Province on Monday, and the extent of the damage it caused, becomes more apparent, the loss estimates from the quake have escalated rapidly.Risk...
May 14 2008 // Catastrophe risk modeling firm AIR Worldwide has issued an estimate that total losses to insured and uninsured property from the M7.9 earthquake that struck near Chengdu, China will likely exceed RMB 140 billion ($20...
May 13 2008 // A report from Risk Management Solutions on the 7.5 magnitude earthquake that struck China’s Sichuan province on Monday reports that “over 7,000 casualties had been reported. More than 100 fatalities occurred...