China

Peeking into the future of work at Keppel’s Shanghai smart office 

The newly refurbished office features a suite of sustainable urban renewal enterprise solutions leveraging the latest digital technologies and IoT.

DHGATE Group’s Nebula Plan shines bright in navigating innovation for e-commerce

The initiative is reshaping cross-border e-commerce, acknowledging the significance of influencers, and embracing the decentralisation of online shopping.

NIIT China's EdTech transformation earns recognition at the Asian Technology Excellence Awards

Their successful pivot to EdTech and its strategic partnership with Red Hat for online training programmes secured the China Technology Excellence Award for Digital - Training and Development, highlighting their commitment to digital education.

C-beauty brands outperform in China: report

Sales of brands amongst the top 20 brands in colour cosmetics grew to 28% in 2022.  

adidas sees ‘better-than-expected’ growth in China despite 9% revenue decline

The company recorded ‘flattish sales’ and a small operating profit overall. 

Alibaba names Wu Zeming as CTO in management reshuffle

He succeeded Li Cheng in the post immediately.

Bottom-up approach in building ESG needed to realise benefits, says RSM partner

Yau stated that taking the opposite approach will be difficult in terms of accelerating ESG culture.

BDO Partner: Companies need support from the government to survive hardships

Gordon Gao has highlighted how global economic crises transpire from time to time and how businesses should change the business field to survive.

Brown-Forman maximises rapid rise of single malts in the Chinese market

It has released three super premium whisky brands in a high-profile event.

China offers banks cheap funding for lending to green firms

The central bank is willing to lend 60% of the required funds at a 1.75% rate.

HSBC ahead of China wealth hiring targets, mulls re-entering India private banking

By end-2021, HSBC will have 64 working in its China onshore private banking.

China deems 19 banks 'too big to fail'

These banks face new capital and regulatory requirements.

China aims to speed up domestic store openings by 2025

The country is targeting a 5% retail sales growth by 2025.

China to hike subsidies for agricultural insurance premiums

Subsidies will be provided to crop-growing farmers who buy full-cost insurance or income insurance.

Citi Global Wealth APAC Co-head Fabio Fontainha outlines bank's ambitions

Fontainha expounds on Citi's wealth goals, which include adding $150b AUM across the APAC franchise in four years’ time.