China set to overhaul financial system giving Xi more controlAuthorities are considering reviving the long-disbanded Central Financial Work Commission to allow the ruling Communist Party to assert mor...
24 Feb, 2023, 02.14 PM IST
Former President Jiang Zemin, who guided China's rise, diesA surprise choice to lead a divided Communist Party after the 1989 turmoil, Jiang saw China through history-making changes including a revi...
30 Nov, 2022, 03.09 PM IST
Twilight of entrepreneurs in China as more leave the countryIt has been a rough year for their company. A deal to sell a controlling stake to the Blackstone Group in New York fell apart when regulato...
13 Sep, 2022, 10.41 AM IST
Xi Jinping set to secure historic third-term as China's PresidentPresident Xi Jinping, who has been occupying the top post since 2012, was unanimously chosen as a delegate to the ruling party's 20th natio...
29 Apr, 2022, 11.28 AM IST
Xi Jinping strikes belligerent tone at CPC centenary, says China won't be bullied by any 'foreign force'Both former US president Donald Trump and his successor Joe Biden have pursued a hardline policy towards China, targeting it on several fro...
01 Jul, 2021, 03.20 PM IST
Greying signals and of dyeing tradition?But Chinese President Xi Jinping may have simply decided to dye another day.
11 Mar, 2019, 08.53 AM IST
View: India's most reformist leader took one wrong stepThis isn’t to say that Vajpayee’s govt wasn’t reformist: It had more market-friendly ministers than others.
18 Aug, 2018, 07.27 PM IST
Singapore to name an orchid after PM Narendra ModiSingapore, which is incidentally celebrating its 50th anniversary, is expecting Modi to deliver something on India's role in the South East...
10 Nov, 2015, 01.54 PM IST
India’s job emergency needs cities with more empowered mayorsIndian cities need directly elected mayors, local committees that give citizens direct voice, transparency about land use and so on.
18 Nov, 2013, 04.29 AM IST
China's present economic challenges are similar to what it faced in 1998Looking at China, one might imagine the 15 yrs separating Zhu’s inauguration as Chinese premier in March'98 & Keqiang’s this March never ha...
21 Aug, 2013, 12.25 PM IST
Tiananmen type trouble averted in Shanghai: Ex Chinese PMThousands were killed when the Chinese military deployed battle tanks to break the massive anti-government student protests in 1989 at the ...
13 Aug, 2013, 09.19 PM IST
India and China cannot afford to postpone their prosperityIndia and China have far more in common than they let on, in their past, and now in the possibilities of their future.
28 Apr, 2013, 09.48 AM IST
Getting the recovery wrongWhile China is fighting the global recession by ramping up investment, India is doing so by ramping up consumption.
09 Sep, 2009, 02.08 AM IST
- China stimulus relies on motivating thrifty public
China's multibillion-dollar plan to revive sputtering economic growth depends on getting thrifty consumers like Wang, a 22-year-old securit...
13 Nov, 2008, 08.39 PM IST
- Former AIG boss Greenberg backs his old company
Maurice "Hank" Greenberg took part in the D-Day invasion of Normandy, led foreign attempts to penetrate the Chinese business world and beca...
17 Sep, 2008, 09.56 AM IST
- Shanghai to Mumbai: Still a long way to go
A quick Google search reveals how a catchphrase became a cliche.
23 Nov, 2006, 03.04 AM IST
- Mumbai still miles apart from Shanghai in infrastructure
From visions of grandeur that Shanghai conjured three years ago, Mumbai has decided that as long as the roads don’t have potholes, and trai...
21 Nov, 2006, 03.16 AM IST