Fang Ying’s December wish list of Louis Vuitton handbags and Chanel perfume is not only for Christmas. Fang, 33, a secretary working in Shanghai, writes one every month for friends and family traveling abroad. Fang is not alone. ...
Tags: handbags, perfume, Luxury Spending
On December 7, Baosteel Co., Ltd made an announcement, announcing it successfully issued $500 million foreign bonds. The issuance of dollar bonds was the first time for Baosteel Co., Ltd to use a wholly owned overseas subsidiary Bao-Trans ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Steel
UNIQLO has teamed up with Chupa Chups, the world’s most famous lollipop brand, to launch a range of long sleeve T-shirts and hoodies for girls, to hit its stores worldwide in December. UNIQLO previously produced popular Chupa Chups ...
Tags: UNIQLO, Tees&Hoodies
Platts assessed the spot price of 98.5% 553-grade silicon metal at $2,000-2,050/mt FOB China Thursday, unchanged week on week, as buying interest stayed scant as offer prices from Chinese sellers rose. This week a Chinese producer with ...
Tags: Asia Silicon, silicon metal, spot price
The Spanish womenswear brand has plans for eight shops in China. Hoss Intropia’s Chinese debut is already underway. Its growth plan for the Asian country, which has just kicked off in Hong Kong, will lead to the opening of up to ...
Tags: Womenswear, Hoss Intropia
Five Spanish apparel firms would be making their presence felt at the next edition of the Hong Kong World Boutique, scheduled to be held parallel to the Hong Kong Fashion Week 2014, from January 13 to 16, at the Hong Kong Exhibition and ...
The Chinese mainland has ranked 2nd on a list of the 10 hottest housing markets in the world, according to Fortune magazine's website. Home prices n the Chinese mainland rose 21.6% in the past year. Dubai ranked 1st, with home prices ...
Tags: Housing Markets, Housing, China, Service
Google said its data centres in Taiwan and Singapore have gone online to cater to the growing number of Internet users in Asia. The Internet giant said in 2011 that it planned its first Asian data centres in Hong Kong, Taiwan and ...
Tags: Google, data centres, Asia, Asian traffic
China's yuan has overtaken the euro to become the second most-used currency in international trade finance. The Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (SWIFT) said the market share of the yuan, also known as the ...
Taiwan's first yuan debt offerings by four big mainland banks have been snapped up, opening the floodgates for up to 60 billion yuan (HK$76.5 billion) of fundraising as Beijing looks to strengthen the island's role in the drive to ...
Tags: Taiwan, RMB, Offshore Yuan Market
Chinese demand for lower-to-medium grade Indonesian thermal coal was stable, with a few deals being reported on Monday as buyers look to take deliveries of the cargoes before the Lunar New Year holidays, sources said. Two Handymax cargoes ...
Tags: Thermal Coal, Chinese Buyers
Suntech Power Holdings has announced that on November 14, 2013, liquidators passed a sole shareholder's resolution placing Power Solar System (PSS), an immediate subsidiary of the company, into liquidation pursuant to the Insolvency Act of ...
Tags: Suntech, Power Solar System
Echo Therapeutics, a medical device company developing its Symphony CGM system as a non-invasive, wireless continuous glucose monitoring system, has entered into a strategic collaboration agreement with Medical Technologies Innovation Asia ...
The Ninth Session of the Ministerial Conference of the World Trade Organisation (WTO), held in Bali, Indonesia, last week, has agreed to hold a dedicated discussion on cotton related issues, including cotton subsidies and improving market ...
Tags: Cotton, Bi-Annual Discussion
Global IPO activity should remain on a firm footing in Q1'14, following a strong uptick in listings in the last quarter of 2013 to close the year with a total of 864 deals raising around US$163.0b, according to EY Global IPO Trends: Q4 ...
Tags: Global IPOS, investment, stock