By Annex Asia Publishing Apple Inc. will kick-off its Apple Pay electronic payment system in China. The launch will take place in early February, and will work with the country’s big four state-run banks (Industrial & Commercial Bank of China, China...
Globe & Mail Free trade with China is Canada’s next natural step Wednesday, November 4, 2015 BILL DOWNE, Chief executive officer of BMO Financial Group, contributed to The Globe and Mail Published Wednesday, Nov. 04, 2015 6:00AM EST Last...
By Annex Asia Publishing In the wake of buttressing Sino-British ties, European countries have begun to jostle to attract China’s cheque book. It comes as no surprise that Germany has arrived first in best-dressed, already well-established as China’s largest...
By Annex Asia Publishing Earlier this year, police from the southern province of Guangxi confiscated over 5,000 bottles of baijiu (the most popular hard liquor in China) from one of the local producers on the suspicion of containing Viagra. It is common practice in...
By Annex Asia Publishing The Made in China 2025 plan, introduced first by Chinese Premier Li Keqiang in April 2015, aims to address some of the new challenges faced by Chinese economy and quoted by president Xi Jinping as the New Normal; the new reality where the the...
By Reza Akhlaghi In March, China’s National People’s Congress (NPC) and the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Congress (CPPCC), the country’s two legislative bodies, convened in Beijing. This year’s meeting focused on the economic reforms envisioned and pursued...