The Associated Press is reporting that some 180 food factories in China have been closed because "inspectors found industrial chemicals being used in products from candy to seafood." Among...
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by Greg Cruey on June 28, 2007
A number of people in the venture capital corner of the blogosphere at the moment are unhappy with Congressman Sander "Sandy" Levin (D-Michigan). The congressman has proposed a bill that...
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by Greg Cruey on June 27, 2007
China has three stock markets - the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, the Shanghai Stock Exchange, and the Shenzhen Stock Exchange. The modern Shanghai Stock Exchange (SSE) was established on November 26,...
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Sticky Minds is reporting that China's Internet market is on the verge of entering what Morgan Stanley calls a "best investment" period. That information came out of the 2nd China...
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China's Internet scene is big business. It is also the place where a lot of effort and a lot of venture capital disappear into oblivion... The Chicago Tribune recently ran a story that chronicled...
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by Greg Cruey on June 23, 2007
Hats off to Hilary Kramer for seeing LDK in a positive light. The AOL financial editor and money coach says she bought some of LDK's stock when the IPO started trading and she feels like she got a...
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by Greg Cruey on June 21, 2007
Eastmoney.com, China's biggest financial website, hopes to list on the NASDAQ sometime within the next six to nine months, according to Reuters. Eastmoney CEO Qi Shi told news services that the...
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by Greg Cruey on June 20, 2007
China has three stock markets - the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, the Shanghai Stock Exchange, and the Shenzhen Stock Exchange. The Shenzhen Stock Exchange (SZSE) is located in Shenzhen's Financial...
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by Greg Cruey on June 19, 2007
If you're any kind of a China watcher you know that the average Chinese Joe has started investing in the stock market in China in incredible proportions in the last few years. Maw and Paw Lee...
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by Greg Cruey on June 17, 2007
China's largest shipping firm, state-owned cosco, will float an IPO on the Shanghai Stock Exchange on June 26. Online purchases of the stock will begin tomorrow, June 18. The 1.78 billion shares...
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by Greg Cruey on June 16, 2007
With retail sales up 15% in China over last year, New world Department Stores has decided that it is a good time for an IPO. New World Department Store China Ltd. is affiliated with New World...
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by Greg Cruey on June 15, 2007
Solar energy companies may have saturated the stock markets of the world with new offerings, but China High-Speed Transmission Equipment Group seems to think there's still room in the world for...
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Current trends in search technology and how these can be tapped to help the growth of online advertising, will be discussed during the Red Herring East Technology Event to be held on June 26-28, 2007...
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by Greg Cruey on June 14, 2007
China's Spreadtrum Communications filed with the SEC last week for an IPO on the NASDAQ using the symbol SPRD, according to Tom Taulli. Spreadtrum Communications Inc., describes itself as "a...
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by Greg Cruey on June 13, 2007
The Hong Kong Stock Exchange (HKEX) is the seventh largest stock market in the world (after the NYSE-Euronext, Tokyo SE, NASDAQ, London SE, Toronto SE, and the Deutsche Börse in Frankfurt). It is...
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by Greg Cruey on June 12, 2007
Fosun Group has submitted an IPO application to the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, according to the Hong Kong newspaper The Standard. The company is one of mainland China's largest private companies....
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With all the recent activity to start a virtual world for China's Internet audience and with companies like The9 getting large chucks of venture capital money to bring Chinese gamers a higher...
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by Greg Cruey on June 09, 2007
Solar IPO fatigue: that's how Mark Gongloff at the Wall Street Journal described it. Yingli's NYSE IPO went for $11, opened Friday at $10.80 and fell to $10.50 at the close - down about 4.5%....
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by Greg Cruey on June 07, 2007
Some 29 million ADS shares of Yingli Green Energy go on sell tomorrow for $11 per share. Goldman Sachs and UBS Investment Bank are among the underwriters for the IPO. While the LDK Solar IPO earlier...
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The Disney-affiliated venture capital firm Steamboat Ventures invested this week in a Shanghai advertising company that inserts ads into streaming online video. The Chinese firm is CTS Media....
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We talked just a few days ago about HiPiHi getting a chunk of venture capital funds to start a virtual world similar to Second Life in China. And we discussed whether they could beat out Shanda and...
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A few short years ago if someone had mentioned "China" and "dating" to me in the same sentence I would have assumed they had a Tang Dynasty vase they were trying to authenticate......
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by Greg Cruey on June 03, 2007
If you haven't been paying attention to the solar energy industry in China over the last couple years, perhaps now is the time to sit up and take notice - and maybe the time to buy in, as well....
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