Two decades after crisis, China rises as global financial power

Latest progress in the financial sector includes global recognition of Chinese shares. Only two weeks ago, equity index provider MSCI finally included a number of Shanghai and Shenzhen listed stocks in one of its most traded indices, after three years of ... ( read original story ...)

Ex-Bank chairman Sandberg dies

Michael Sandberg, former chairman of Hongkong Bank, died at the age of 90. He passed away in London on July 2. Sandberg rose through the hierarchy of the Hongkong & Shanghai Banking Corporation to become its chairman and chief manager in Hong Kong in 1977." ( read original story ...)

Stock market: Ascent of the Dragon

Risks in investing in China's volatile bourse but bigger risk for investors is to ignore it altogether I got my first glimpse of the Chinese stock market when I visited Shanghai for the first time in 1991, a time when the bourse was still very much in its ... ( read original story ...)