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November 01, 2021 Business and Market Discussion / View from mainland China
Ahead of this week’s COP26 UN climate change summit in Glasgow, the G20 leaders have agreed a communique which promises to work towards limiting the global rise in temperatures to 1.5C, saying it "will require meaningful and effective actions by all c...
32 min
October 29, 2021 Business and Market Discussion / View from India
Ahead of COP26, the UN climate change summit which starts in Glasgow on Sunday, China and India have rejected calls for tougher new climate targets. Beijing left its targets unchanged, saying it would reach peak emissions before 2030 and achieve carbo...
32 min
October 28, 2021 Business and Market Discussion / View from Taiwan
China's National Bureau of Statistics reported that industrial profits rose 16.3% y/y in September to 739 billion yuan (US$115.7bn), increasing from the previous month’s 10.1% growth. In the period from January to September, industrial profits rose 44...
32 min
October 27, 2021 Business and Market Discussion
Hong Kong CE Carrie Lam announced Tuesday that the government will scrap most quarantine exemptions granted to arrivals from the mainland and overseas. Only border-crossings necessary for the city's daily operations or for emergencies will continue to...
32 min
October 26, 2021 Business and Market Discussion / View from Japan
There has been a resurgence of Covid-19 cases in mainland China which health authorities expect to worsen in the coming days.China reported 38 Covid infections on Monday, half of which were found in Inner Mongolia. In Beijing, the epidemic has expande...
32 min
October 25, 2021 Business and Market Discussion / Common prosperity
China Evergrande has avoided default on one of its offshore bonds after making a last-minute interest payment. Evergrande had missed a US$83.5m coupon payment due on September 23, but on Friday the company deposited the US$83.5m into a bank account at...
32 min
October 22, 2021 Business and Market Discussion / View from India
The China Banking and Insurance Regulatory Commission said yesterday that the Evergrande crisis will not hurt the credit of Chinese companies, citing China’s stable growth. But, it added, China will not stimulate the property market to shore up short-...
32 min
October 21, 2021 Business and Market Discussion / Hong Kong’s MPF scheme
Home prices in mainland China fell for the first time in six years. The National Bureau of Statistics reported Wednesday that new home prices in 70 cities slid 0.08% in September from August, the first drop since April 2015. Among China's 70 major cit...
32 min
October 20, 2021 Business and Market Discussion
China’s National Bureau of Statistics reported Tuesday that the mainland’s property and construction industries contracted in the third quarter for the first time since the start of the pandemic, hit by a slump in real estate. Output in the sector fel...
32 min
October 19, 2021 Business and Market Discussion / View from Japan
China's economy slowed more than expected in the third quarter and industrial production and fixed asset investment decelerated at a sharper rate in September as mainland growth was hit by the slowdown in the property sector and the energy crunch. GDP...
32 min

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