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Economics & Trade This Week in China

CER links: Focus Media tanks, New Yorker on Beijing architecture

What we’ve been reading recently: Shanghai Daily: CSRC calls for better supervision of listed firms – "CHINA will improve the supervision of listed companies to fight against misdeeds such as information disclosure, insider trading and fund misappropriation, said Fan Fuchun, vice chairman of the China Securities Regulatory Commission." | china shares WSJ: China rainmaker tests […]

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Economics & Trade This Week in China

CER links: Microsoft in for anti-monopoly probe?

What we’ve been reading recently: China Law Blog: China Investigating Microsoft For Antitrust Violations. We Don’t Think So – | aniti-monopoly microsoft Vanity Fair: How the Web Was Won – The internet’s history, told in a novel way. For business, tech and history buffs. | internet technology Subscribe to our recommended reading feed for things […]

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Economics & Trade This Week in China

Why the electricity tariff hike won't help power producers

The news that China is increasing costs of gasoline and diesel, by 17% and 18%, respectively, sent crude oil prices worldwide down by US$4 a barrel. Lost amid the discussion of the impact on global oil demand – counter-intuitively, the rising price of fuel in China could lead to heavier demand – was the simultaneous […]

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Politics & Society This Week in China

Do boring cities have better quality of life? Mercer seems to think so

Just received the latest quality of living city ranking from Mercer, an HR agency which calls itself a leader in “benefit outsourcing” (please leave a comment if you know what that means). Can’t argue with the bottom three cities in the ranking – Baghdad, Kinshasa and Karachi are the worst cities to live in. But […]

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Markets This Week in China

Capitalist Roader Fund: BUY-ICBC (601398, Shanghai)

Ah, happy days. After a disastrous week, the market appears to be rebounding. To get some exposure to the index and hopefully ride the rebound, we bought 200 shares of China’s biggest bank, (market cap RMB1 trillion right now) ICBC at RMB5.10 a share. As for our other holding, Anhui Conch, it rode all the […]