Latest China Headlines
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AIG Revives Plane Unit IPO After Continued Delay in China Sale
Jun 24 2013 // American International Group Inc. revived plans for an initial public offering of its plane- leasing unit after the insurer extended a deadline for a group of Chinese investors to buy the business. International Lease...
IPO-Seeking China Companies Pay More to Avoid Boards Going Naked
Jun 18 2013 // Stephen Markscheid holds one of the riskiest jobs in the world — or so say directors and officers liability insurers. The 59-year-old former banker, a Mandarin-speaking American, sits on the boards of five...
AIG Open to New ILFC Offer or IPO as China Group Deadline Extended
Jun 17 2013 // American International Group Inc. said it is open to new offers for its plane-leasing business and may pursue a public offering of the unit after a group of Chinese investors missed another deadline to buy the...
Solar Construction: Too Hot to Handle?
Jun 17 2013 // The solar construction industry has been extremely hot in recent years. Perhaps, too hot. The sector’s rapid growth has led to an oversupply of solar panels, which has turned up the heat on manufacturers to lower...
Montreal Protocol Shows the Way for Action on Climate Change
Jun 12 2013 // A new deal to curb carbon emissions could copy features from the Montreal Protocol, which the United States and China favored over its Kyoto counterpart in an agreement on greenhouse gases at the weekend. The 1987 Montreal...
U.S. on Offense in Cyber War: Building Command Center, Hiring Warriors
Jun 7 2013 // On the site of a former military golf course where President Dwight Eisenhower once played, the future of U.S. warfare is rising in the shape of the new $358 million headquarters for the military’s Cyber Command. The...
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...
