With private equity markets in the US slowing down, JP Morgan is the latest major player to look elsewhere for action. The company has set aside $750 million in a new fund focused on asia. According...

China's State Environmental Protection Administration (SEPA) held up at least ten IPOs last year because the companies involved didn't meet new anti-pollution guidelines, according to The Wall...

Hong Kong-based private equity firm orchid Asia Group Management Ltd. has closed its fourth private equity fund focused on China, according to a press release from the company last week. The new fund...

Xorte is reporting that venture capital deals in the fourth quarter of 2007 were up 6% over that same period of 2006. The fourth quarter saw 60 deals, with $660 million being invested in China...

The University of Arkansas announced last week that they're starting an Executive Master of Business Administration (MBA) program focused on China. The first class of 13 graduate students just...

The relationship between China's currency, the yuan renminbi, and the US dollar has been a focus of attention for months now. The yuan is stronger than its ever been and is continuing to climb...

A study in the journal most recent edition of the journal China & World Economy say that there "no strong empirical evidence that inflation in China has a significant impact on inflation in...

Inflation in China is at a high point not seen since last century. According to a February 19th Agence France Press report on inflation in China, "The nation's main inflation gauge Spiked to...

"Woof, woof!" Those were the words of the World Trade Organization's global trade watchdog to China, according to the PanAsianBiz blog. According the Agence France Press (AFT), the case...

Tech Confidential reported last week that Shanghai-based BCD Semiconductor had decided not to offer an IPO in the US in the near future. BCD had asked the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on...

How would you like to see a discussion thread on your online bulletin board get 25 million hits? The combination of celebrity gossip and sex scandal has done that in the past week or so for one China...

Blogger Paul Denlinger, CEO of China Business Strategy, put up a good post last week at his blog on whether a Western-Managed business can succeed in China. Paul looks at trends in the management of...

China's economy is hot. And money in China is changing hands at an incredible pace. That leads many Western business people to assume that the average family in China has lots of disposable income...

The BBC and other news sources are reporting that two Chinese firms and an American Company have been indicted in the US for "their alleged role in a tainted pet food scandal." We reported...

Goldman Sachs and Singapore's sovereign wealth fund, Temasek Holdings, are among the investors in a new $2 billion private equity fund that will focus on China. The new fund, called the Hopu Fund,...

While the Chinese are evidently still bullish on China, the Sydney Morning Herald is among a number of sources that published a report last month saying that multinational investors were cutting back...

Happy chinese new year. It is now the Year of the Rat in China. I was born in the Year of the Rat, in 1960. China Success Stories has a nice piece on the new year. Chinese New Year is......

If you haven't figured this out already, let me break the bad news to you: outsourcing from China is going to cost you more this year than it did last year. If your business relies on outsourcing...

Northern Light Venture Capital announced last week that its second fund, the Northern Light Venture Fund II, had reached its US$350 million target and was now closed. Trading Markets was among a...

David Hornik took a nice look at Venture Capital in China earlier this month. I came across it a few days ago and couldn't resist sharing it with my readers. At 1500 or so words, David's piece...