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Special Report: China's new migrant workers pushing the line
ZHONGSHAN/LONGHUA, China (Reuters) - After a morning of confrontation with his bosses at an auto parts factory in southern China, Wei took a different route home to avoid the plain-clothes police tailing him. An employee looks up while working along a production line in Suzhou Etron Electronics Co. Ltd's factory in Suzhou, Jiangsu province, June 8, 2010. REUTERS/Aly SongAs soon as he reached his building, Wei darted up a flight of stairs to his small rented room and logged onto a desktop computer.
Analysis: Too big to fail? China's wealth management products stir debate
HONG KONG (Reuters) - The default of a Chinese investment plan has handed Beijing a tough choice: bail out investors and endorse moral hazard or let it fail and risk unnerving those who hold at least $1 trillion in so-called wealth management products. Locals walk past a Huaxia Bank in Shanghai, December 12, 2012. Picture taken December 12, 2012.
Analysis: China banks turn blind eye as corporate debt piles up
BEIJING/SHANGHAI (Reuters) - The problems at China’s Yingli Green Energy Holding Co Ltd YGE.N, the world’s No.3 solar-panel maker, are going from bad to worse as the company struggles with mounting losses, collapsing product prices and a stock in free-fall. And yet, despite a government directive to rein in loans, Chinese banks keep extending credit to the New York-listed firm, and at below-market rates.
UPDATE 2-China Life shares dive 12 pct on earnings miss
* China Life says current mkt not conducive for share issue * Ping An shares also down 3.6 pct on block deal HONG KONG, Aug 24 (Reuters) - Shares of China Life Insurance Co Ltd tumbled 12 percent to a 2-1/2 year low on Wednesday after the world’s largest life insurer by market value posted disappointing earnings, piling pressure on it to speed up a planned diversification.
HSBC says Shanghai listing may have to wait
HONG KONG (Reuters) - HSBC Holdings Plc (HSBA.L)(0005.HK), Europe’s biggest bank, said it might have to wait before listing in Shanghai because of market conditions, a senior executive said on Tuesday, in a sign that the long-awaited international board may be delayed again. “If you look at the situation in China, the A-share market is not performing particularly well and there are quite a few banks that are trying to raise funds in the market,” HSBC’s Asia head Peter Wong said.
Standard Chartered eyes wider Iran settlement by year end
HONG KONG/LONDON (Reuters) - Standard Chartered said it was aiming for a wider year-end settlement with U.S. authorities investigating its Iran-linked transactions. The Asia-focused bank, on track for a tenth straight year of record earnings, agreed in August to pay New York’s banking regulator $340 million (£211.67 million) to settle allegations it hid some $250 billion worth of transactions with Iran. But other probes, including a criminal investigation, are still going on.
Apple to ship new iPhone in September: sources
By Kelvin Soh | HONG KONG HONG KONG Apple's next-generation iPhone will have a faster processor and will begin shipping in September, three people with direct knowledge of the company's supply chain said.The production of the new iPhone will start in July/August and the smartphone will look largely similar to the iPhone 4, one of the people said on Wednesday.The iPhone -- introduced in 2007 with the touchscreen, on-demand application template now adopted by its rivals -- remains the gold...
DealTalk: HK's first yuan REIT may open door for others
HONG KONG Billionaire Li Ka-shing is pushing ahead with a $1.5 billion yuan-denominated IPO, the first such in Hong Kong, with the issue's bond-like REIT format allowing it to get around the limited liquidity pool, sources said.Boosting the chances of the deal's success was Beijing's announcement on Thursday that it will now allow companies to make overseas investments in yuan, which some see as a sign that the country's mandarins may be ready to liberalize its tightly controlled currency...
Analysis: China banks turn blind eye as corporate debt piles up
By Kelvin Soh and Gabriel Wildau | BEIJING/SHANGHAI BEIJING/SHANGHAI The problems at China's Yingli Green Energy Holding Co Ltd (YGE.N), the world's No.3 solar-panel maker, are going from bad to worse as the company struggles with mounting losses, collapsing product prices and a stock in free-fall.And yet, despite a government directive to rein in loans, Chinese banks keep extending credit to the New York-listed firm, and at below-market rates.
Special report: China's debt pileup raises risk of hard landing
By Kelvin Soh and Aileen Wang | CHENGDU/WUHAN, China CHENGDU/WUHAN, China When China announced a nearly $600 billion package to ward off the 2008 global financial crisis, city planners across the country happily embarked on a frenzy of infrastructure projects, some of them of arguable need.Chengdu, the capital of southwestern Sichuan province, answered the call for stimulus action with a bold plan for a railway hub modeled after Waterloo railway station in London.Except London's Waterloo was...
China's answer to subprime bets: the "Golden Elephant"
TAIHE, China (Reuters) - The Chinese investment vehicle known as "Golden Elephant No. 38" promises buyers a 7.2 percent return per year. That's more than double the rate offered on savings accounts nationally. Absent from the product's prospectus is any indication of the asset underpinning Golden Elephant: a near-empty housing project in the rural town of Taihe, at the end of a dirt path amid rice fields in one of China's poorest provinces.
Special Report - China's answer to subprime bets: the "Golden Elephant"
People protest in front of the China Pacific Insurance Company building in Shanghai in this October 27, 2008 file photograph. Migrant labourers work at a construction site for a railway near Hongqiao Airport in Shanghai in this March 10, 2010 file photograph. A general view of the Chengdu East Railway Station in Chengdu, Sichuan province in this February 10, 2011 file photograph. An investor takes a nap at a brokerage house in Wuhan, Hubei province in this June 18, 2012 file photograph.
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