Two different reports this month both seem to indicate that there's room for growth in China's Internet gaming market. Pearl Research released a report in March showing that Internet gaming in...

UK private equity firm 3i looks set to cash in on its investment two years ago in on of China's largest restaurant chains. The restaurant chain Little Sheep looks set to float an IPO in Hong Kong...

Illegal mapping web sites: Min Yiren, Deputy Director of China's State Bureau of Surveying and Mapping (SBSM) says there are too many of them, and the speculation is that a crack down on such...

3i, a European PE firm that had played a major role in funding start-ups in Europe and dabbles at times in Asia, has decided to get out of the venture capital business. A number of bloggers have...

Credit Suisse will host its 11th Asian Investment Conference from March 31st to April 3rd this year at the Island Shangri-La Hotel and the Conrad International Hotel in Hong Kong. According to...

The Chinese Internet gaming and social network portal 9You has gotten a huge infusion of cash from Singapore's sovereign wealth fund, Temasek Holdings, Pearl Research reported on Friday. Chris...

Venture capital funds have invested in social networking sites and news portals in China only to find that the Chinese government isn't willing to let information flow too freely around the...

I heard a story on NPR this morning that was fascinating before the money angle ever got mentioned. Seems a company in China called Beike Biotechnology is treating optic nerve hypoplasia (ONH) among...

It's a testimony to the power of the Internet. It's a reaffirmation of the Chinese government's commitment to the Great Firewall of China as a means of controlling what information reaches...

The China Daily reported recently that venture capital investment in China more than doubled in February compared to the same time last year. The brief report cited the financial consulting firm China...

The establishment of four new private equity funds is being worked out by the Chinese government, according to the Caijing Magazine. The decision by China's State Council would bring the total...

Hong Kong-based Baring Private Equity Asia is moving into China's green energy sector in a big way. According to the China Daily, Barring and its Mainland associate Chengwei Ventures LLC have...

JP Morgan is having its China Conference at the Grand Hyatt Hotel, Beijing next month - April 23-25. According to the company's website:As China's largest investment forum, this pre-eminent...

Britain's largest private equity firm, Permira, is about to take the plunge into China. Permira has decided it wants in on the Chinese consumer market, according to This Is Money. The PE firm...

BabyTree, a Chinese social networking site for mothers-to-be, just picked up $10 million in venture capital funds from Matrix Partners China Fund. Matrix Partners set up a China Fund last month and...

The Second Life Herald published an interesting op/ed piece yesterday on "The Problem with China." The problem, of course, is dissidents - and what to do about them when the government of...

With opportunities in the US thinning out a little because of the economic slow down, Baird Private Equity has become the latest PE Fund management company to look toward China for new investment...

Just a couple of weeks after China lost its first World Trade Organization (WTO) dispute, the US and the European Union (EU) have brought China back before the WTO, this time over China's practice...

I saw two interesting pieces last week on the rise of the yuan. One said that the appreciation of the Chinese currency was hurting small businesses in China and increasing the mortality rate among...

Private equity firm Blue Ridge is moving into China in a big way. The company has developed a China-focused fund that is about twice the size of what JP Morgan is commiting at the moment to the whole...