Many of China's newly merged small banks have seen profits fall and capital buffers shrink over the past year, a Reuters ...

China’s economy is poised to overtake Japan’s to become the second largest in the world. From the BBC: China says its economy expanded by 8.7% in 2009, exceeding even the government’s own initial ...

“Short essays” appear to be causing big problems in China’s bond market. Over the past year the term has been used to refer to rumours swirling around financial hubs, which often originate with brief ...

The UN is being systematically starved of funds while the money goes to the insatiable military. If this is not short-sighted, irresponsible and shameful, ...

After nearly a year’s delay, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)’s Third Plenum — its economic reform agenda-setting meeting that normally occurs every five years — will convene next week (July 15-18).

Chinese policymakers are reportedly considering a new, aggressive package of measures aimed at reviving their troubled housing market, as fears mount that the long crisis could now threaten the entire ...

SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Selling insurance against a financial crisis should not be difficult, five years after the last one nearly wrecked the global economy. But when it comes to China, the world's ...

Go to college, find a job, buy a house, get married: For decades, homeownership has been seen as an essential part of life in China. Based on that long-standing truth, analysts are forecasting ...

From the Japan Focus: Vietnam and China have much in common. There is no country more similar to China than Vietnam, and there is no country more similar to Vietnam than China. They share a Sinitic ...