Latest China Headlines
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China: Company Bears ‘Unshirkable Responsibility’ for Deadly Poultry Plant Blaze
Jun 7 2013 // Safety management at the Chinese firm whose poultry slaughterhouse caught fire earlier this week killing 120 people was a “total mess” and two senior executives have been detained by the authorities, state...
China Says It Has Data on U.S. Cyber Attacks, Calls for Cooperation
Jun 6 2013 // China’s top Internet security official says he has “mountains of data” pointing to extensive U.S. hacking aimed at China, but it would be irresponsible to blame Washington for such attacks, and called for...
AIG Receives Delayed Deposit on ILFC Sale
Jun 5 2013 // Insurer American International Group Inc. has received a delayed deposit payment from the Chinese consortium buying its ILFC airplane leasing business, AIG said in a regulatory filing on Wednesday. Last week AIG said it...
Silicon Valley At Front Line Of Global Cyber War
Jun 5 2013 // Chinese President Xi Jinping and American counterpart Barack Obama will talk cyber-security this week in California, but experts say the state’s Silicon Valley and its signature high-tech firms should provide the...
AIG CEO Comments on ILFC Sale, ‘Systemically Important’ Classification
Jun 5 2013 // American International Group Inc. Chief Executive Officer Robert Benmosche raised doubt about whether the company will complete a sale of its plane-leasing unit to a Chinese investor group by a deadline this...
China Poultry Plant Workers Didn’t Question Locked Doors
Jun 5 2013 // Workers at a poultry slaughterhouse in northeastern China where 119 people died in a fire this week saw nothing odd in the plant’s doors being locked, even after a previous fire at the 4-year-old facility. One...
China Orders Probe Into Deadliest Plant Fire Since 2000
Jun 3 2013 // China’s President Xi Jinping ordered an investigation into the cause of a fire at a poultry plant in northeastern China that killed at least 119 people, the nation’s deadliest blaze in 13 years. Xi and Premier...
Cyber Security Threats Pose ‘Stealthy, Insidious’ Danger – U.S. Defense Chief
Jun 3 2013 // Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said on Friday that cyber threats posed a “quiet, stealthy, insidious” danger to the United States and other nations, and called for “rules of the road” to guide...
China to Study Possibility of Joining U.S-Led Trade Talks
Jun 3 2013 // China will study the possibility of joining the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade talks, the Commerce Ministry said on Thursday, signaling its openness to the U.S.-led trade pact. “We will analyze the pros and...
China Group Missing Deposit Date Could Ground AIG’s Plane-Lease Sale
May 31 2013 // A Chinese group’s purchase of ILFC, one of the world’s largest airplane leasing businesses, could collapse after insurer American International Group Inc. said on Friday it did not receive a scheduled deposit...
AIG in Joint Deal to Sell Life Insurance in China
May 29 2013 // American International Group Inc. reached a deal with People’s Insurance Company Group of China Ltd. for a joint venture to sell life insurance in China. AIG will contribute 24.9 million yuan ($4.1 million) and...
Developing Countries May Not Be Ready for Coming Increased Investment: World Bank
May 17 2013 // The percentage of global investment that goes to developing countries should triple in the next two decades as emerging economies catch up to richer nations and become more integrated into financial markets, the World Bank...
West Virginia Fiesta Dinnerware Maker Sues Over Knockoffs
May 10 2013 // West Virginia’s Homer Laughlin China Co. is suing two companies for selling what it claims are cheap Chinese imitations of its popular and collectible Fiesta dinnerware to an unsuspecting public. The Weirton Daily...
April Brought Fewer Tornadoes But Severe Hail, Floods to U.S.: Aon
May 8 2013 // Parts of the U.S. suffered severe hail and flooding damage during April, although there were fewer tornadoes than expected. Impact Forecasting, the catastrophe model center at Aon Benfield, released its monthly Global...
Budget Cuts Worry Bird Flu Experts
May 8 2013 // The World Health Organization’s ability to police the new strain of bird flu that has killed 27 people in China is being jeopardized by budget cuts, according to a top U.S. official. “One of the things that,...
Flexing Antitrust Muscle; China is a New Hurdle for Mergers & Acquisitions
May 6 2013 // China’s new-found clout in regulating global mergers is causing headaches for companies seeking high-stakes deals that need Beijing’s approval. Where corporate lawyers and advisers were once primarily concerned...
U.S. Presses China to Stop Growing Trade Secret Theft
May 2 2013 // The U.S. Trade Representative’s office criticized China on Wednesday for failing to stop the growing theft of American trade secrets that are the lifeblood of U.S economic might, in the latest sign of...
AXA to Buy 50% of China P&C Insurer Tian Ping for $631 Million
Apr 26 2013 // France’s AXA Group announced that it has entered into an agreement with Tian Ping Auto Insurance Company Limited shareholders to acquire 50 percent of the company. Under the terms of the agreement, and subject to...
WHO Says New Bird Flu Strain is ‘One of Most Lethal’ Viruses
Apr 24 2013 // A new strain of bird flu that has killed 22 people in China is “one of the most lethal” of its kind and is more easily transmissible to humans than an earlier strain that has killed hundreds around the world...
Earthquake Kills 207 People Injures 11,500 in China’s Sichuan Province
Apr 22 2013 // China’s worst earthquake in three years on Saturday killed at least 207 people and injured 11,500, 960 of them seriously, according to the latest figures available from China’s Ministry of Civil Affairs. The...
