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China’s local governments urged to rethink approach to infrastructure investment

China must address a rising problem of overinvestment in large but inefficient projects that is more rooted in habitual practice…

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New World faces risk of mounting losses amid Hong Kong property slump

Echo Huang Shaomei, the newly appointed CEO of heavily indebted New World Development (NWD), is facing a host of formidable…

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Chinese developer Sunac sells stake in Harbin Ice and Snow World Park for US$138 million

Beleaguered property developer Sunac China Holdings has sold its stake in Harbin Ice and Snow World Park, operator of one…

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New World Development sells Hong Kong sports park stake to parent to tackle debt

New World Development (NWD) has sold its stake in Hong Kong’s largest sports infrastructure project to parent Chow Tai Fook…

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Unit of Chinese developer R&F Properties defaults on US$147 million in interest payments

Chinese developer R&F Properties said a subsidiary missed interest payments on offshore notes in another sign of escalating troubles for…

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Opinion | The era of the entrepreneurial Chinese local government is over

Decentralisation of decision-making from the central government to local authorities is widely regarded as one of China’s most effective policy…

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Opinion | How America’s national debt has become the world’s liability

Put in perspective, the size of the global financial system per the Financial Stability Board at the end of 2022…

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China’s non-financial debt growth slows with firms and households unwilling to leverage up

Growth of debt within China’s non-financial sectors fell to the lowest level in more than two decades in the second…

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Opinion | US must ground its economic policy in reality, sooner rather than later

This is not a narrative that the Biden administration will be anxious to have broadcast in the run-up to the…

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Pakistan budget to significantly reduce government debt, rating agency Fitch predicts

Fitch forecasts Pakistan’s FY25 budget to significantly reduce government debt, which is projected to decline to 68% of GDP by…

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