Archive for the ‘cib’ Category
Tuesday, April 8th, 2008
This isn't actually the most successful IPO of the year, I think its more of a stastical fluke. But playing around with Yahoo finance I came across a page with "the best IPOs of the year. Number 1 is the "Asia Special Situation Acquistion Corp." Which, despite having shares with ...
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Tuesday, April 1st, 2008
Anyone living in China can’t fail to have noticed the sharp price increases in recent months. Zhang Hong has written a fascinating piece for our magazine this month – link to follow - on how the rising cost of living in Chinese cities has lead to a major shortage of ...
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Saturday, February 16th, 2008
Time Asia's cover story this week is called The Short March (groan) and is described as follows:
In a migration dwarfing that of America after 1945, millions of newly affluent Chinese are moving to the vast suburbs rising on the fringes of the country's megacities. This is the story of ...
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Friday, February 1st, 2008
This month we are working on a "Power Woman" spread, for the main article, for which I am interviewing Roberta Lipson, the head of Chindex, a medical supply company that also runs one of the larger hospitals in Beijing. She seemed quite amused by the prospect of being considered a ...
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Tuesday, January 29th, 2008
“We’re officially supposed to be back at work on Valentine’s Day, the 14th. But I won’t be back until the 18th. I’ll just tell my boss that I couldn’t buy train tickets back to Beijing and take a few extra days off.”
So said a Chinese friend of mine when I ...
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Monday, January 14th, 2008
Article in the Australian, provides some hope that Sinophobia is going out of style
INDIAN Prime Minister Manmohan Singh arrived in Beijing on a three-day visit yesterday, insisting he would have no part in any alliance with the US, Australia and Japan aimed at "containing China".…"I have made it clear to ...
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Tuesday, January 8th, 2008
In our January People to Watch cover feature we profiled Shi Yuzhu, whose firm Giant Interactive became the first Chinese online gaming firm to list on the New York Stock Exchange last year, making Shi a very wealthy man in the process. The profile, and a previous Obizuary column by Roger ...
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Thursday, December 20th, 2007
...many people have been asking since its investment in Blackstone last June (though possibly not in Old English cant). Now for the answer: All snuggly with Morgan Stanley, it seems.
The late-Wednesday announcement of CIC's purchase of a 9.9% stake in Morgan Stanley is the first global move made by the ...
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Wednesday, December 12th, 2007
There was an amusing article in the Wall Street Journal yesterday that pointed out that nearly all older, prominent Chinese men seem to dye their hair black. The article also touched, very briefly, on what I thought was one interesting (although not entirely convincing) reason why:
Experts say that obsessing about ...
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Tuesday, December 11th, 2007
Over the past few years, the world’s leading oil firms have attempted to cast themselves in a greener, more environmentally friendly light. BP, which used to stand for British Petroleum, dropped the dirty fuel from its title, rebranding itself as an acronym and running an expensive global advertising campaign which ...
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