China is playing a US$9 trillion game of chicken with investors

BEIJING/SHANGHAI — Like many individual investors in China ... authorities as they try to reduce moral hazard and improve the pricing of risk in China’s financial system: It may require a major WMP blowup to shake investors out of their complacency ... ( read original story ...)

Pole vault stars to light up Shanghai – IAAF Diamond League

Olympic champion and Brazilian hero Thiago Braz makes his Shanghai debut at the start of a 2017 outdoor season when he hopes to add the World Championships crown to the Olympic gold he won so memorably in Rio last August. The 23-year-old broke the South ... ( read original story ...)

Shanghai loses in ACL after Oscar misses two penalty kicks

Shanghai's first loss in Group F dropped it below new leader Urawa on goal difference. Rafael Silva scored for Urawa at Saitama Stadium just before halftime, but they were on the back foot after the break. Urawa goalkeeper Shusaku Nishikawa, however ... ( read original story ...)

China tells lenders to come clean on bad loan levels: sources

SHANGHAI China's banking regulator has told lenders to conduct "self-inspections" in areas such as using loopholes to circumvent rules, in order to boost supervision of the vast shadow banking sector, according to documents seen by Reuters. The move is the ... ( read original story ...)