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This week in China

What’s all the fuss about Southern Weekly?

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Strangers at home

If China follows through on financial reform promises, it could beckon home companies delisted abroad

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China opens mobile services to non-state firms

China will launch a two-year trial for private firms to provide mobile services to users, ending the monopoly of state-owned carriers in the nation’s telecommunications sector, Bloomberg reported. The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology on Thursday proposed the initiative online, which will allow private Chinese companies to acquire mobile network bandwidth from current carriers […]

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Southern Weekly "back to normal"

The new year’s second issue of Southern Weekly hit stands Thursday, signaling an end to a clamorous censorship dispute between officials and journalists in Guangdong province. A verbal agreement between provincial authorities and the newspaper meant production was “back to normal,” according to The Wall Street Journal, which cited a Southern Weekly editor. In exchange […]

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Banking & Finance Law & Regulation

China introduces spot checks for IPOs

China’s security regulator plans to tell underwriters and auditors of prospective IPO applicants to review their accounts and then begin conducting spot checks on the companies, Reuters reported, citing unidentified sources. The China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC) will be on the lookout for factors including illegal and fraudulent activity and measures taken to prevent loss, […]