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Typhoon Matmo Spares Taiwan from Major Damage; Moves to China: AIR Analysis
Jul 24 2014 // According to catastrophe modeling firm AIR Worldwide, Typhoon Matmo, the third typhoon in the western Pacific Basin in less than three weeks, “made landfall in Taiwan around midnight, local time, Tuesday night with...
Typhoon Matmo Targets Taiwan, Southeastern China: AIR Analysis
Jul 23 2014 // According to catastrophe modeling firm AIR Worldwide, Typhoon Matmo (called Henry in the Philippines) formed in the Philippines Sea and became a tropical storm on July 17. It is the third typhoon to form in the northwest...
Chinese Drywall Maker Ordered to Pay $55,000, Stop Doing Business in U.S.
Jul 22 2014 // A federal judge has ordered a China-based maker of drywall to pay $55,000 in penalties and attorney fees – and to stop doing business in the United States – as punishment for refusing to take part in court proceedings...
Typhoon Rammasun, Strongest Storm in Decades, Kills 18 in China
Jul 21 2014 // The strongest typhoon to hit southern China in four decades has killed 18 people, the government said Sunday, while in the Philippines the death toll from the storm’s earlier destruction rose to 94. Typhoon Rammasun...
Energy Market Dynamics of Shifting Shale
Jul 21 2014 // The expansion of shale resource extraction encompasses several interrelated elements, including exploration risk, infrastructure project risk, and the risks associated with new or enlarged trade flows and the significant...
Typhoon Rammasun Poised to Strike Hainan Province in China: AIR
Jul 18 2014 // According to catastrophe modeling firm AIR Worldwide, after striking the Philippines with high winds and floods, “a strengthening Typhoon Rammasun is set to make landfall in China between 6 and 12 UTC on July 18,...
Typhoon Rammasun Passes South of Manila, Strengthening Expected: AIR
Jul 17 2014 // According to catastrophe modeling firm AIR Worldwide, Typhoon Rammasun weakened as it crossed the Philippine island of Luzon and passed to the south of Manila, where wind speeds of 60-140 km/hr (37-87 mph) were observed,...
Starr Companies Completes Majority Ownership of Chinese Insurer
Jul 17 2014 // Starr Companies has announced the completion of its majority ownership of Shanghai based Dazhong Insurance Company Limited of China. The company will be renamed as Starr Property & Casualty Insurance (China) Company,...
Best Assigns Ratings to Starr Property & Casualty Insurance (China)
Jul 17 2014 // A.M. Best has assigned the financial strength rating of ‘A-‘ (Excellent) and issuer credit rating of “a-” to Starr Property & Casualty Insurance (China) Company, Limited (Starr China), formerly...
Typhoon Rammasun Makes Landfall in Philippines; AIR Analysis
Jul 16 2014 // Catastrophe modeling firm AIR Worldwide reported that Typhoon Rammasun made landfall in the Philippine province of Sorsogon with sustained winds of 157 km/h (98 mph) on Tuesday, July 15, in late afternoon local time. The...
Report: Data Breaches Cost N.Y. Businesses $1.37B Last Year
Jul 15 2014 // Security breaches exposing consumers’ personal information are becoming larger and more frequent in New York, costing businesses more than $1.37 billion last year, the state attorney general’s office said. Data...
Typhoon Rammasun Targets the Philippines; AccuWeather Report
Jul 15 2014 // A bulletin from the AccuWeather Global Weather Center reports that “Typhoon Rammasun is on track to threaten the Philippines Tuesday and Wednesday. “Rammasun strengthened back to a tropical storm early Sunday...
Swiss Re Agrees to Purchase RSA’s Sun Alliance in China
Jul 3 2014 // Swiss Re, the world’s second – largest reinsurer, agreed to buy a Chinese unit of RSA Insurance Group Plc as it shifts capital to regions with higher premium growth prospects. The Zurich-based company is buying...
U.S. Ambassador Presses China Over Cyber Theft, Investment Treaty
Jun 25 2014 // Cyber theft of trade secrets by China is a threat to U.S. national security, U.S. Ambassador to China Max Baucus said on Wednesday in the first major public address of his tenure, warning that Washington would continue to...
Koh Joins Hong Kong’s Peak Re as Senior VP
Jun 24 2014 // Peak Reinsurance Co. Limited, the Hong Kong based reinsurer, has appointed Kathleen Koh as senior vice president to underwrite credit and surety business. Koh will be responsible for developing and growing Peak Re’s...
Traders Wary of Metal Financing Risk in China’s Unregulated Warehouses
Jun 24 2014 // Shaken by a fraud investigation into metal financing in the world’s seventh-busiest port, banks and trading houses have been made painfully aware of the risks they face storing commodities in China’s sprawling...
Active Season for West Pacific: AccuWeather 2014 Typhoon Forecast
Jun 12 2014 // The AccuWeather Global Weather Center has issued a forecast for the 2014 West Pacific typhoon season, which anticipates “near-normal numbers.” The forecast also noted, however, that “the onset of El Niño...
Deep-Sea Search for MH370 Was in Wrong Place, Australia Says
May 29 2014 // A deep-sea hunt for the missing Malaysian passenger jet has focused on the wrong place for nearly two months, officials said today, after a survey of a remote stretch of the Indian Ocean found no trace of wreckage. A zone...
Chinese Hacking Raises Cyber Attack Disclosure Issue for Companies
May 21 2014 // Three U.S. public companies identified as Chinese hacking victims didn’t report the theft of trade secrets and other data to investors, despite rules designed to disclose significant events. Two of the companies...
Protests Damaging Vietnam Industrial Zones Raise Investor Concerns
May 16 2014 // Dexter Hsu spent Tuesday night barricaded inside his workers’ dormitory in Vietnam’s Binh Duong province. Tables were stacked up against the doors, but he and his dorm-mates were terrified by the shouts and...
