Feb 13, 2015

Activists are taking on Hong Kong’s investor passivism. Hedge fund Elliott Management has mounted a legal challenge to Bank of East Asia, raising questions abo

Feb 12, 2015

Pseudo-Prada bags, sham Apple stores, even artificial eggs – China’s ability to generate fake versions of familiar items is legendary. Around three-quarters o

Feb 11, 2015

China has held back with its Qualcomm settlement. The country’s antitrust watchdogs hit the U.S. chipmaker with a $975 million fine on Feb. 9 and forced it to

Feb 10, 2015

Accounting firms can no longer hide behind China’s skirts when U.S. regulators demand paperwork on suspected fraudsters. Yet China can still protect beancounte

Feb 05, 2015

Chinese regulators may be about to give Qualcomm’s business in China some shock treatment. A long-running antitrust investigation could result in a whopping fi

Jan 31, 2015

Jack Ma is a force of nature, and he pushes Alibaba in unexpected directions. Like counterpart Jeff Bezos at Amazon, Ma has built online retail dominance. But

Jan 30, 2015

Alibaba is teaching its shareholders a useful lesson about Chinese business: there’s no such thing as having a good relationship with the government. The compa

Jan 29, 2015

It’s hard to think of a better embodiment of China’s soaring stock market than Shenwan Hongyuan. Shares in the brokerage – newly formed from the merger of Ch

Jan 27, 2015

On January 26, President Barack Obama will be the chief guest at India’s 66th Republic Day celebrations. His presence at the birthday party of the world’s lar

Jan 21, 2015

For politicians and peasants, China’s 7.4 percent GDP growth in 2014 is a happy outcome. Not so for the all-important demographic of middle-class city dwellers