Chinese real estate investment collapses by 70%
Tweet Signs that China’s real estate market could further be cooling are now clearer than ever after a report released yesterday showed real estate investment in the country’s mainland shrunk…
Fewer Chinese are willing to buy homes: survey
Tweet Only 14.1% of Chinese residents have plans to buy a house in the near future, a survey for Bank of China has shown. This may come as a bit…
Chinese new home prices continue to fall
Tweet The recently-introduced policies by the Chinese government to control an overheating real estate market are continuing to bear fruits. New home prices in most Chinese cities continued to fall…
Shanghai housing market sparks back to life
Tweet New home sales in Shanghai rose to the highest level in seven months last week after real estate developers cut new home prices. Excluding government-funded affordable housing, sales of…
House prices in China still declining
Tweet Prices of new homes in China continued to decline last month, figures from the National Bureau of Statistics have shown. Excluding affordable housing funded by the government, house prices…
Abducted Chinese workers free at last
Tweet The 29 abducted Chinese business workers in Sudan are now free. Yesterday afternoon (Tuesday 7th), all the workers who had been kidnapped safely landed at Wilson airport in Nairobi,Kenya…
Beijing office rents now 25% more expensive than New York
Tweet Beijing, Shanghai and Hong Kong are now all amongst the top 10 most expensive places to rent office space in the world according to the latest data published by…
Sudanese rebels take Chinese workers hostage
Tweet Sudanese rebels are holding 29 Chinese workers following a fierce gun fight with the Sudanese armed forces. Chinese embassy officials in Khartoum however said that 27 workers are missing.…
Taiwan broadens its quality certification system to include tiles
Tweet The only way that Taiwan-made products can effectively compete with those from China mainland is by making sure that they are of impeccable quality. In line with this argument,Taiwan…
New home prices in Beijing down 11% in 2011
Tweet New residential apartments’ prices in Beijing dropped by 11.3% last year (2011), thanks to the policies that the Chinese government had introduced to control an overheated property market. According…
