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Australia will not deter China investors
Australia has insisted that it will not attempt to deter Chinese investment in its natural resources, in spite of domestic fears over foreign sovereign wealth funds
Battle over MG badge shifts up a gear
A motoring enthusiast is taking on SAIC, the Chinese carmaker, by asking the UK Intellectual Property Office to weigh in on who owns the rights to the MG name in the UK
Canberra denies blocking Chinese investment
Australian Federal Treasurer Wayne Swan has told the Australia-China Business Council that Canberra was examining Chinese bids for Australian miners and there was no truth in claims there was a policy of blocking or delaying Chinese applications for investment approval
Chrysler explores Chinese partnership
Chrysler has signed an agreement with China’s Great Wall Motor to study the feasibility of sharing each other’s distribution networks, components, and technology
China set to spend more on gadgets
Chinese spending on technical consumer equipment is set to overtake that of western Europe some time in 2009-2010, with revenues set to exceed $100bn by 2009
Carlyle’s Xugong contract lapses
The contract underpinning the controversial planned investment by Carlyle Group in a Chinese machinery maker has lapsed, raising the prospect that the three-year-old deal will have to be revised again to secure regulatory approval
SJM forced to limit IPO pricing
A weak Hong Kong stock market has prompted the Macao gaming company controlled by tycoon Stanley Ho to limit its initial public offering to less than half of the $1bn it originally sought to raise in January
China in clampdown on ‘hot’ money
China announced a major strengthening of capital controls in an attempt to limit the amount of speculative “hot money” entering the economy, which is frustrating its efforts to contain inflationary pressures
Why the boom is not building a cool China
Beijing’s new architecture is not the fruit of home-grown creativity: it is created by foreigners and its function expresses the dead hand of state power, writes Geoff Dyer
Beijing to tighten foreign companies law
Proposed changes to China’s patent law will require foreign companies making discoveries in the country to file for a patent in China first or risk losing legal protection of their intellectual property
