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Record $31bn in special-purpose bonds used to stabilise small lenders exposed to property crisis
...Chi Lo, senior Asia-Pacific strategist at BNP Paribas Asset Management, said there had been a steady string of positive developments favouring the renminbi’s international use this year and that November...
...The chairs of some state banks, such as Liao Lin at Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, Gu Shu from Agricultural Bank of China and Cai Xiliang from China Life Insurance, now also outrank Pan in the...
...Additional reporting by Cheng Leng...
...Additional reporting by Andy Lin in Hong Kong...
Rise from low base fails to dispel doubts about growth in world’s second-biggest economy
...In early 2023, Lin asked Cheng to collaborate on a gallery. “Some Hong Kong galleries are purely commercial wet paintings,” says Lin. “And some are too experimental. We asked ourselves why not be both?...
Annual policy meeting due this month will signal how much help government is prepared to give
...“This year we probably won’t see big growth,” Lin said. Continued supply chain diversification is another point tech suppliers agreed on this year....
...Chi Lo, senior Asia-Pacific strategist at BNP Paribas Asset Management, said the scale of state buying was not clear....
...The president of China’s top tech-focused investment bank, Cong Lin, a veteran banker who had run ICBC International, was detained in 2022....
...Data visualisation by Andy Lin...
Thousands of unfinished homes and a swath of debt restructurings show the turmoil among developers
...“LGFVs are a legacy of the old supply-expansion growth model that relied on heavy investments to create jobs and income,” said Chi Lo, senior investment strategist at BNP Paribas Asset Management in Hong...
...Cloud Gate’s trademark “blended training” — everything from tai chi to hip-hop — produces dancers of remarkable strength and versatility but Cheng does not make full use of their gifts....
Central government support for local financing vehicles helped lift debt sales in August to near-record levels
...In Ho Chi Minh City, computer shops that Nikkei Asia visited said RTX 4090 supplies in Vietnam had been depleted in the wake of the US curbs....
Details scant in politburo statement but markets welcome acknowledgment by Xi Jinping of growth headwinds
...Additional reporting by Cheng Leng and Andy Lin in Hong Kong...
...Tony Chi and Martin Brudnizki (now a ubiquitous force in hotel design, but then still an emerging star)....
...Wang’s travel freeze follows the months-long disappearance of tech sector dealmaker Bao, founder of investment group China Renaissance, and of Cong Lin, another of its former senior executives....
...Additional reporting by Cheng Leng and Hudson Lockett in Hong Kong...
...Additional reporting by Hudson Lockett and Cheng Leng...
...Scott Lin, president of Marketech International, a leading chipmaking facility builder and equipment supplier to TSMC, ASML and Applied Materials, said the company was finalising a project to build new production...
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