China grew 6.9 percent in 2015 indicating the slowest growth rate in 25 years. The growth rate was 6.8 for the fourth quarter of 2015. The world's second largest country recorded 7.3 percent growth rate in 2014. Investors are cautious about the impact of slowdown in China's economy. IMF forecasts China's economy growth rate at 6.3 percent in 2016 and six percent in 2017. Chinese government has set a target of seven percent growth for 2016.
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South Korean Won retreats from 5-year low
South Korean currency Won has been volatile as it hit five-year low and recovered marginally. Won was tracking to Chinese currency Yuan as the dragon country is the major foreign market for South Korea. China's GDP rose 6.8 percent during fourth quarter marginally lower than the forecast of 6.9 percent. This disappointed the market.
Chinese Venture Capital Cocoon Networks Open a $700M Fund in London
Cocoon Networks, a Chinese-backed venture capital group is setting up a £500 ($700) million fund in London. The fund is aimed to invest in European tech startups.
Motorola Hits Market With Moto G3, The Most Budget Conscious Smart Phone
Motorola has unveiled its Moto G3 smart phone in July 2015 and now released in the market. The concept for making budget conscious smart phones has been attracted by other mobile giants including its mother concern, Lenovo. Lenovo expects to grab the budget phone market shortly with its self developed similar products.
China Confirms Detention of Missing Hong Kong Publisher, Suspicion On Chinese Atrocity Widens
The Chinese Police has confirmed that Lee Bo, the missing Hong Kong publisher has been held by Guangdong Provincial Public security department. Lee and four others, connected with a publishing house and bookstore, has remained disappeared for couple of days. The publishing house’s books are banned in mainland China allegedly for criticizing the communist party leaders.
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China is set to report its weakest full-year growth figure in 25 years. The official GDP data will be published by China’s National Bereau of Statistics on Tuesday.
Venture capitalist poured a total of $37 billion worth of funds to start-ups in China in 2015, making it the biggest challenger to the leader in the Tech industry, which is the US.
Nickel and copper lead the gains on the London Metal Exchange as Chinese equity market gained, which calmed concerns over financial turmoil in the world’s second largest economy.
The authorities expect more easing measures to help reducing home inventory excess. Developers are also encouraged to change marketing rules and reduce home prices as China's property investment growth hit the lowest rate since 2009.
The company is accused of commercialization in the form of selling its forum's management and altering search results to show paying-websites. Last year, Baidu also faced punishment over pornography and violations of publishing regulations.
China will release its economic growth data on Tuesday, and most financial institutions are expecting the slowest expansion rate since 1990.
Chairman of China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC) was reported to offer his resignation. Xiao Gang handed his resignation last week following a failure in executing circuit breaker system in China stock markets.
JD.com, China’s largest online direct sales company, has raised $1 billion, for its JD Finance subsidiary from investors including Sequoia Capital China, China Harvest Investments and China Taiping Insurance.
The website for students and lecturers should have displayed links to class resources and informations. But instead, it showed pictures of militants and the verses of Quran in Arabic.
