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  • Monday, 16 September, 2024
    IPOs
    Hong Kong market still feeling the chill as aircon maker Midea floats

    $4bn secondary listing is exchange’s biggest offering since 2021 but does not signal a revival, say analysts

    Employees work on an air conditioner production line at a Midea factory in Wuhan, in central China’s Hubei province
  • Monday, 16 September, 2024
    Exchange traded funds
    Hong Kong-focused ETFs set to list on Saudi exchange

    Planned listings follow 2023 launch of Hong Kong’s first Saudi equities ETF, which has attracted $1.25bn in assets

    Saudi traders follow shares on screen at the stock market trading room in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
  • Monday, 16 September, 2024
    FT News Briefing podcast11 min listen
    China’s start-up winter is here

    Venture capital funding has dried up in China, prompting a sharp fall in start-up formation

  • Sunday, 15 September, 2024
    Asia maritime tensions
    Philippines withdraws from disputed reef in South China Sea

    Move to test Beijing’s willingness to de-escalate tensions with Manila

    Philippine coastguards carry a crew member off the BRP Teresa Magbanua after the vessel arrives at a port
  • Sunday, 15 September, 2024
    Asia-Pacific companies
    Private lenders battle Indonesian media company over $560mn debt claim

    The dispute comes as the country has been attracting billions of dollars in foreign investment

    Anindya Novyan Bakrie at a speech
  • Sunday, 15 September, 2024
    South Korean business & finance
    South Korea’s stock exchange chief defends slow start to corporate reform drive

    Only 1% of 2,600 listed companies have signed up to new initiative aimed at boosting valuations

    Jeong Eun-bo  speaks at a press conference
  • Sunday, 15 September, 2024
    News in-depthChinese society
    More Chinese women graduate but jobs and equal pay still elude them

    Women under-represented in Stem subjects at university and afterwards are quizzed about plans to start a family

    Graduates at Wuhan university
  • Saturday, 14 September, 2024
    Chinese economy
    China’s economic activity falters as challenges mount

    Slow momentum boosts expectations Beijing will need to boost stimulus

    People stroll at a shopping mall in Beijing
  • Friday, 13 September, 2024
    US-China trade dispute
    US targets trade loophole used by ecommerce groups Temu and Shein

    Biden administration seeks to slow flood of cheap Chinese goods with proposed new rules around ‘de minimis’ exemption

    Package with Temu logo
  • Friday, 13 September, 2024
    The Long ViewKatie Martin
    China out in the cold for foreign investors

    Sentiment towards the country’s stock markets has become increasingly pessimistic

  • Friday, 13 September, 2024
    Ford Motor Co
    Ford to restart India car production 3 years after quitting

    US automaker plans to use mothballed Tamil Nadu plant to build vehicles for export

    A sign for the ‘Ganges Ford’ showroom in the Indian city of Kolkata
  • Friday, 13 September, 2024
    PwC
    PwC banned for 6 months in China for ‘concealing fraud’ at Evergrande

    Big Four firm pays $62mn fine and fires 11 staff over audit of collapsed developer

    The exterior of the PwC Center in Shanghai, China, showing the "pwc" logo prominently displayed on the building
  • Friday, 13 September, 2024
    Chinese society
    China to raise retirement age for first time since 1978

    Beijing battles demographic crisis and pressure on pension system by keeping population in workforce for longer

    Two elderly men play Chinese chess at a park in Beijing
  • Friday, 13 September, 2024
    Elon Musk
    Musk blasts Australia as ‘fascists’ over social media law

    Billionaire X owner has previously clashed with privacy regulator over allegations of censorship

    Elon Musk
  • Friday, 13 September, 2024
    North Korea nuclear tensions
    North Korea releases first-ever photos of uranium enrichment plant

    Kim Jong Un calls to ‘exponentially’ increase nuclear weapons stockpile

    Kim Jong Un inspects uranium enrichment centrifuges at an undisclosed location in North Korea
  • Friday, 13 September, 2024
    News in-depthAdrian Cheng
    Adrian Cheng: Hong Kong’s third-generation property scion under pressure

    New World Development chief confronts prolonged real estate slump and succession speculation

    Adrian Cheng standing outdoors in front of a concrete structure at the State Theatre in Hong Kong. He is wearing a light-colored suit and glasses.
  • Friday, 13 September, 2024
    News in-depthIndian society
    Rise of the Indian tourist: travel industry pivots to next big market

    Higher incomes encourage more people to travel, echoing similar trend in China

    Two Indian tourists, dressed in colorful traditional attire, look out from a high observation deck in the Burj Khalifa, Dubai. The cityscape below features numerous skyscrapers and buildings.
  • Thursday, 12 September, 2024
    EU-China relations
    EU rejects Chinese EV makers’ bid to avert hefty tariffs

    Commission dismisses offers to adjust pricing of allegedly subsidised vehicles

    BYD electric cars for export are parked in rows, waiting to be loaded on to a ship at a port in Shandong province, China
  • Thursday, 12 September, 2024
    #techAsia
    Export clampdowns and a smartphone face-off Premium content

    The inside story on the Asia tech trends that matter, from Nikkei Asia and the Financial Times

    People walk past Huawei Mate XT
  • Thursday, 12 September, 2024
    Global InsightJohn Reed
    Rahul Gandhi brings a different India to Washington

    With Modi on the defensive at home, his main rival is being seen with fresh eyes

    Rahul Gandhi speaks at the National Press Club on June 1 2023 in Washington, DC.
  • Thursday, 12 September, 2024
    Leo Lewis
    Japan has learnt a hard lesson about US friendship

    The Nippon Steel experience has broader ramifications for dealmaking

    María Hergueta illustration of a large blue chain being sawn by a contractor wearing a protective mask
  • Thursday, 12 September, 2024
    The Big Read
    How China has ‘throttled’ its private sector

    Venture capital finance has dried up amid political and economic pressures, prompting a dramatic fall in new company formation

    Pony Ma, Jack Ma, Neil Shen, Shanghai skyline and Chinese flag
  • Thursday, 12 September, 2024
    US-China relations
    US Navy Seal unit that killed bin Laden trains for China invasion of Taiwan

    Elite commando team makes plans to help island nation in event Beijing launches war

    A montage of the Seal Team 6 logo, Taiwan map and US Navy Seal members
  • Thursday, 12 September, 2024
    News in-depthJapanese politics & policy
    Japan gears up for ‘wild west’ leadership race

    Crowded field to succeed Prime Minister Fumio Kishida as ruling party chief could crown first female or youngest-ever leader

    Montage of Liberal Democratic party leadership candidates. Clockwise from bottom left, Taro Kono, Shinjiro Koizumi, Toshimitsu Motegi, Shigeru Ishiba and Sanae Takaichi
  • Thursday, 12 September, 2024
    Seven & i Holdings Co Ltd
    7-Eleven owner taps Nomura to advise on takeover battle after rejecting $39bn offer

    Circle K parent Alimentation Couche-Tard says it is focused on securing deal with Seven & i

    A Circle K store next to a 7-Eleven in Hong Kong
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